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Dalian Airport's Alliance Management Dilemma
Miao Cui; Jun Wang; Jacqueline Tuck; Jingqin Su; Shujuan WangCase IVEY-9B13M120-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe general manager of market development for the Dalian International Airport in China was worried. Two years after he had successfully launched the Northeastern Hinterland and Bohai Rim Region Airport Aviation Market Strategic Alliance in 2009, it was facing serious external and internal challenges. Competitors had begun to impact on the alliance by intensively adding flights to regional airports with the support of subsidies from provincial an...Starting at €8.20
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Yola: Managing Multiple Challenges
Helena Barnard; Bryan MuirCase IVEY-9B10M031-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe South-African founder of Yola, a San Francisco-based company that provides simple website creation software, has developed a vibrant business that went from eight to more than 40 employees in only a year. He has secured two rounds of funding from a South African venture capitalist, and the growth in the Yola user base has been exceeding that predicted in the business plan. Yet the business faces multiple challenges. There are offices in both ...Starting at €8.20
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Wensli Silk: Succession and International Luxury Branding
Jean Lee; Rebecca Chung; An JingCase IVEY-9B16C023-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2011, China-based Wensli Group’s newly appointed chairwoman was preparing to transform the company’s silk business into a global luxury brand. It was a lofty goal for a company that started out as a township silk factory before growing into the largest silk-producing company in China. Tapping into the luxury market, however, presented a challenge because Chinese companies were better known for producing cost-conscious products. That meant Wens...Starting at €8.20
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StratAFin Inc.: Auditing Change
Verity Hawarden; Margaret Sutherland; Mandla AdonisiCase IVEY-9B12C006-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThis case focuses on organizational transformation in an accounting firm in South Africa. It describes how the impact of both globalization and the transformation that the country had undergone since the advent of democracy in 1994 steered StratAFin Inc. towards a process of building a new identity. The firm’s senior management realized the need for transformation based on the many new challenges in the changing environment. Change was experience...Starting at €8.20
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The Awethu Project: Values-Driven Decisions for Profit and Social Impact
Charlene C. LewCase IVEY-9B17C018-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe Awethu Project (Awethu) was a South African-based social enterprise that operated as a venture capital and investment firm for small, medium, and micro-sized enterprises. The company was widely acknowledged for its social mission of creating jobs and benefiting society while maximizing profit. In March 2016, Awethu’s leaders signed an agreement with a prominent South African corporation, which could allow Awethu to operate within a higher seg...Starting at €8.20
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Adcock Ingram: Decisions and Motives That Steer Acquisitions
Charlene C. LewCase IVEY-9B10C008-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe case sketches the story of a charismatic and ambitious young business leader who, through value-adding commercial transactions, has helped set a South African pharmaceutical company, Adcock Ingram, on a trajectory of growth. In May 2009, he faces lack of closure and an ambiguous outcome to an offer to acquire a smaller pharmaceutical company. The case demonstrates the power of relationships, where the ambitions of different parties around the...Starting at €8.20
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Goran Kapicic at Actavis China
Joo Yong LoweCase IVEY-9B13C001-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe managing director of a multinational company turns a loss-making business into a profit-making venture by using his unique brand of leadership to change the organizational culture and develop a responsible proactive attitude in his employees. Throughout this process, many difficult personnel decisions must be made, including the decision to remove some senior employees who resist the necessary changes.Once under the new leadership team, recru...Starting at €8.20
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Zhu Dandan (A): Promotions
Shaozhuang Ma; Virginia TrigoCase IVEY-9B13C002-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe generation born in China in the 1980s has become an important force in the country’s labour market. Members of this generation were the first to grow up in a market economy with daily access to the Internet, and are considered to have different work values than past generations. Also, most were born and raised in single-child families and generally demonstrate more individualistic behaviours and less willingness to follow the norms of previou...Starting at €8.20
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Sibanye: Changing Mindsets in Mining through Contextual Leadership
Caren Scheepers; Ken MathuCase IVEY-9B16C026-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2016, the executive vice-president of commercial services for Sibanye Gold, Westonaria (Sibanye), the largest gold producer in South Africa, faced a challenge. The company’s latest acquisition had been particularly difficult, with much resistance from the acquired management team. Although the executive vice-president tried to empathize with the management team who had done things a certain way for decades, he was frustrated with their lack of...Starting at €8.20
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Huo's Group: A Professional Manager in a Family Firm in China
Ting Wang; Paul W. Beamish; Zhou Liman; Luo JingjingCase IVEY-9B14C009-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn February 2012, a human resources appointment attracted wide attention from China's domestic lubricating oil industry. The iconic general manager of Shell Tongyi (Beijing) Petroleum Chemical Co., Ltd. officially took the position as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Huo's Group, thus returning to work for his former boss, the founder of the former Tongyi Lubricating Oil. Before the merger between Tongyi and Shell in 2006, the private entrepr...Starting at €8.20