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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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HR as Transformation Partner in Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.
Anita Ollapally; Asha BhandarkerCase IVEY-9B11C022-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe Indian business landscape is marked by uncertainty, turbulence, hyper-competition, and non-linear growth, as exemplified by the automobile sector. Increasing competition from foreign automobile organizations and homegrown ones such as Tata Motors are posing a threat to the market leader, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. A fierce battle for market share is ensuing among these automobile giants. However, Maruti Suzuki has succeeded in maintaining its l...Starting at €8.20
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Bancolombia: Talent, Culture and Value Creation Management in Mergers
Juanita Cajiao SaenzCase IVEY-9B11C040-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe case reviews the main facts related to the merger process of three financial institutions — Bancolombia, Conavi, and Corfinsura — in Colombia in 2005 and 2006. The merger decision emerges from directors and senior executives foreseeing a major upcoming market transformation, including adjustment in industry regulation, improvement in international competence, and consolidation of main players, and their response in order to adapt to the new e...Starting at €8.20
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Risk Leadership at TD Bank Group
Jeffrey GandzCase IVEY-9B12C001-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyTD Bank Group was one of the few large financial institutions in the world to have prospered during the financial meltdown and subsequent recession in 2008/9. It did this without any government assistance. Furthermore, it emerged from the crisis substantially larger in terms of market capitalization and assets while having the best performance of any of the Big-5 Canadian banks in terms of stock price and total shareholder return during the perio...Starting at €8.20
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Clarke: Transformation for Environmental Sustainability
Chris Laszlo; Katey McCabe; Eric Ahearn; Indrajeet GhatgeCase IVEY-9B12C012-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyClarke, a mosquito abatement company seen as having a core business that is environmentally harmful by its very nature — selling pesticides — faces unique challenges in its transformation into a sustainable enterprise. Should it shift its focus entirely towards offering “green” pesticides and risk losing some of its customers, or should it keep offering its less expensive, more toxic products? This case shows how even when innovation leads to new...Starting at €8.20
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The Indian Greenpreneur: Management of Frenemy Talent and Coopetition
Jyotsna Bhatnagar; Neha Paliwal Sharma; Nakul GuptaCase IVEY-9B13C028-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyDuring the 2013 Indian festival of colours, a young green entrepreneur and owner of Green Horizon Consulting (GHC) faced a plethora of business growth challenges. His former employee, who had quit GHC a while back to work for a major rival, wanted to return. However, the entrepreneur could not figure it out — would rehiring an ex-employee be a sound business decision? Should he take a risk and give the former employee another chance? If he did, h...Starting at €8.20
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Indian Metal Company's Talent Management Dilemma
Jittu SinghCase IVEY-9B14M121-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyBy 2013, the Indian Metal Company, headquartered in Metconagar in eastern India, had been a leading metallurgical company in India for 100 years. While it had ambitious expansion plans, both at home and abroad, it was bedeviled by an increasing attrition of professionals and difficulty in attracting candidates from premier educational institutions. This shortage of talent could jeopardize the company’s investments. The chief executive officer con...Starting at €8.20
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Marimekko
Alison Konrad; Jordan MitchellCase IVEY-9B06C014-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyKirsti Paakkanen has achieved a celebrity status in Finland for her enigmatic leadership of the Finnish design company Marimekko. Purchasing the company in a state of near bankruptcy in 1991, Paakkanen took several actions to restore profitability and realize growth. As of 2006, the company has sales of $64 million (of which 80 per cent are from Finland) and net profits of $8.4 million. Over the last few years, Paakkanen and her team have focused...Starting at €8.20
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John Meredith of Hutchison Port Holdings
Kathleen E. Slaughter; Jeffrey Gandz; Nigel GoodwinCase IVEY-9B07C027-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThis case examines the life, career and leadership style of John Meredith, the group managing director of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH). Meredith established the company in 1972 based on his vision for more efficient global trade. Under his leadership, the company grew to become the world's largest container port operator. The company grew from owning and managing a single container port to owning and managing 45 container ports by May 2007. This...Starting at €8.20
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Merging Esso Iceland and Bilanaust (A)
Gerard Seijts; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C015-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn 2006, Hermann Gudmundsson (the chief executive officer [CEO] of Bilanaust, an Icelandic automotive spare parts retailer) was part of a group of partners that had purchased Esso Iceland. He had subsequently been appointed to the CEO position at Esso Iceland. The two companies were quite different: Bilanaust dealt with real-time customer needs, carried a wide range of products, and enjoyed a rising market share and profits. Esso Iceland was 12 t...Starting at €8.20