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Kelman & Beaton, Partners at Law (A)
John S. Haywood-FarmerCase IVEY-9B12C043-ELeadership and People ManagementMichelle Morris, a partner at Kelman & Beaton, Partners at Law (K&B), was upset after a conversation she had just had with her two partners, Jack Beaton and Josh Kelman. Over the past few months, Morris and Kelman had become frustrated with Beaton’s performance. Beaton appeared to have been dedicating increasing amounts of his time to a second business and less to the progress of the firm. Beaton had also taken a rigid stance against the firm’s s...Starting at €8.20
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Patricia Coulter's Dilemma (A)
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Samantha WinklerCase IVEY-9B13C020-ELeadership and People ManagementA graduating fourth-year HBA student faces an ethical dilemma as she struggles to decide which one of two job offers to accept. The situation is complicated by the fact that she has received an exploding offer from one firm and she must respond to it on the same day as she participates in a final-round interview with the other firm. The stakeholders in this case include the student, the two firms, the university and its career-management program,...Starting at €8.20
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Kelman & Beaton, Partners at Law (B)
John S. Haywood-FarmerCase IVEY-9B12C044-ELeadership and People ManagementThis is a supplement to Kelman & Beaton, Partners at Law (A).Starting at €5.74
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Sustaining Competitive Advantage: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-679-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementIn "Value Creation & Capture", we discussed how firms gain competitive advantage and create value by making choices and trade-offs, allowing them to capture more value than rivals, and hence, generate greater profit. This note focuses on the internal analysis of a firm, concentrating on how a firm can combat imitation by utilizing its unique resources, capabilities, and core competencies. This resource-based approach emphasizes that the key to pr...Starting at €8.20
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Competitive dynamics: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-680-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis technical note will discuss some of the main strategies firms employ in close competition with other firms and how game theory can be used to help shape a firm's competitive strategy.Starting at €8.20
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Competitive dynamics
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-680Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEn la presente nota técnica se comentarán algunas de las principales estrategias que emplean las compañías con una gran rivalidad con otras empresas y cómo la teoría de juegos se puede utilizar para dar forma a la estrategia competitiva de las organizaciones.Starting at €8.20
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Value Creation and Capture: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-678-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis note introduces the basic concepts of value creation and value capture, which are used as the building blocks for many other concepts, tools, and frameworks in Competitive Strategy. Defining these concepts allows us to think and talk more precisely about Competitive Strategy. They also allow us to make progress in our understanding of what strategies might actually work, and which are doomed to fail. In this note, we will also define some ot...Starting at €8.20
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Dr. Mak Lap Ming
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Josephine ChiuCase IVEY-9B11D017-ELeadership and People Management, Service and Operations Management, StrategyDr. Mak Lap Ming, an obstetrician and gynecologist who operated two clinics in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, was contemplating retirement. Now that his own child was financially independent and thus relieved some of the pressure on Mak, he was wondering if it made financial sense to retire soon. He also wondered what the immediate consequences of retirement would be and if semi-retirement was a viable option. To that end, he could work with a partner and ...Starting at €8.20
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Ambrose & Bisaro
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Jennifer Xu; Nicole MaisonvilleCase IVEY-9B10D007-ELeadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementIn February 2009,the human resources associate at the Toronto office of advertising agency Ambrose & Bisaro (A&B) had just finished interviewing a candidate for one of eight summer internship positions. Due to the economic downturn, A&B anticipated a larger number of qualified applicants for these positions, especially notable in 2009 as many of their direct competitors had scaled back their internship programs. Throughout the interview, the cand...Starting at €8.20
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Making Waves London
John S. Haywood-Farmer; Hayden BielawskiCase IVEY-9B12D001-ELeadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementAfter spending two years as the vice president internal for Making Waves London (MWL), Brianna Murphy was ready to assume her elected position of president for the 2011-2012 year. MWL had a mandate to provide affordable and accessible swimming instruction to children with special needs. Her time spent as vice president had convinced her that changes were needed — MWL had grown in recent years and faced a multitude of service issues, from capacity...Starting at €8.20