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Rowing South Africa: Leadership Lessons through Sport - Teaching Note
Verity Hawarden; Amy MooreTeaching Note IVEY-8B20C056-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B20C056.Starting at €0.00
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Anglo American South Africa: Strategically Mining Leadership Talent for Succession - Teaching Note
Amy Moore; Verity Hawarden; Caren ScheepersTeaching Note IVEY-8B19C004-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B19C004.Starting at €0.00
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Comair South Africa: Team Coaching Taking Off
Amy Moore; Verity Hawarden; Caren ScheepersCase IVEY-9B20C007-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn May 2019, the head of Organizational Development and Talent for Comair Limited (Comair), was contemplating the dilemma of stimulating higher buy-in for team coaching—a program in formal leadership development emphasizing collaboration and shared responsibility. The long-standing chief executive officer (CEO) had just resigned. He had focused over the last few years on enabling a leadership style of collaboration where departmental silos would ...Starting at €8.20
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British Library CEO Lynne Brindley on helping to spur business innovation (Spanish version)
Brindley, Lynne; Cliffe, SarahArticle HBS-F0711GLeadership and People ManagementThe CEO of the British Library explains how the United Kingdom's exclusive repository for rare books, manuscripts, and scientific papers has loosened up the design of its Business & IP Centre to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.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 Beauty of Sorbet
Margaret Sutherland; Verity HawardenCase IVEY-9B12A039-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyHIGHLY COMMENDED CASE - African Business Cases Runner-up, 2012 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. This case chronicles the origins and growth of Sorbet, a chain of beauty salons targeting upper income women in South African metropolitan areas. Owner Ian Fuhr identified an opportunity to redefine the beauty salon experience in South Africa by offering customers a service unlike anything in the industry....Starting at €8.20
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Tackling the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Through Multi-partner Stakeholder Engagement
Margaret Sutherland; Anthony Wilson-Prangley; Verity HawardenCase IVEY-9B13C029-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (WRHI), a South African non-government organization, played a crucial role in turning the tide in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa. The organization significantly influenced the national response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic through its credibility, research output and multiple stakeholder engagement. The collaborative multiparty relationships between WRHI's stakeholders were a key component of the o...Starting at €8.20
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Anglo American Leadership Academy: Aligning Global Leadership Development to Strategy - Teaching Note
Amy Moore; Verity Hawarden; Hayley PearsonTeaching Note IVEY-8B21C013-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B21C013.Starting at €0.00
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Anglo American Leadership Academy: Aligning Global Leadership Development to Strategy
Amy Moore; Verity Hawarden; Hayley PearsonCase IVEY-9B21C013-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2019, the head of leadership development for Anglo American plc (Anglo American), a global mining conglomerate, was reviewing the two years she had been working with the human resources (HR) leadership team to establish the company’s international Leadership Academy. Her task was to determine leadership development solutions that supported Anglo American’s strategy and to recommend how to resource, identify, develop, and retain the diverse tal...Starting at €8.20
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The Uses (and Abuses) of Influence
Cialdini, Robert B.; Cliffe, SarahArticle HBS-R1307F-ELeadership and People ManagementThe ability to persuade others to contribute to your efforts is a key skill for managers, for team members--for anyone who wants to elevate the probability of success. Research by leading social scientist Robert Cialdini has found that persuasion works by appealing to certain deeply rooted human responses: liking, reciprocity, social proof, commitment and consistency, authority, and scarcity. In this edited interview with HBR's executive editor, ...Starting at €8.20