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09/15/20 • 0 min
Nadine De Gannes: Case writing as an early-career academic
Ivey Decision Point
11/16/21 • 24 min
Nadine De Gannes, Assistant Professor, Managerial Accounting and Control & Sustainability at Ivey Business School, shares with us her experiences as an early-career academic and case author, the elements of a compelling case, linking research and practice, and using the teaching note to create a safe space for difficult conversations by sharing “promising practices.” We wrap up our discussion with the advice that Nadine wished she had received at the beginning of her case writing journey.
View Nadine’s cases below:
Barrick Gold: Integrating ESG into the (Post-Merger) Executive Performance Scorecard
Tender Greens: Can They Keep the ‘Green’ Promise in Beef Sourcing?
Ivey Decision Point
11/09/21 • 28 min
Marilyn Anthony and Neha Mittal, professors at the Fox School of Business at Temple University discuss their case Tender Greens: Can They Keep the ‘Green’ Promise in Beef Sourcing?
Marilyn and Neha share their approach to writing Tender Greens, an operations case that deals not only with supply chain issues, but sustainability, strategy, ethics, and managing stakeholder interests. In our conversation, we discuss the importance of storytelling, how to build trust with case subject organizations, and writing cases with online delivery in mind. We conclude our discussion with Marilyn and Neha’s experience as an Ivey Publishing co-brand partner and how Fox’s case writing initiatives support Temple’s overall strategy.
Traeger Pellet Grills: Cooking up the Competition
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10/26/21 • 33 min
Traeger Pellet Grills: Cooking up the Competition
Simon Greathead, Associate Professor, Global Business at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business discusses his award-winning Traeger Pellet Grills case. The case addresses the complexities associated with managing an international supply chain, cross-culture negotiation, meeting the needs of various stakeholders in a supply chain, and how to respond to unethical business partner behaviour. Additionally, Simon shares insights on the three elements contained in a great case, writing cases with multiple themes, allowing students to drive case discussion, building trusted relationships, and his approach to influencing students.
Traeger Pellet Grills: Cooking up the Competition won the 2020 EFMD case competition award in the supply chain management category.
Professor Simon P. Greathead is an international business and global supply chain professor at BYU’s Marriott School of Business. Simon earned an MBA from Henley Business School at the University of Reading in the UK and a BS in Business Management from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. Simon’s current interests focus on process optimization, ERP implementation, change management, global negotiations, international business, supply chain innovation, and the global supply chain as a strategic concern. Simon began teaching at BYU in 2008 as an international business instructor and currently teaches global supply chain, operations, negotiations, and international business courses. Simon has published in Harvard Business Review as well as Ivey Publishing and other notable journals.
Michael McCain: Tweeting on the Maple Leaf Foods Account
Ivey Decision Point
10/18/21 • 38 min
Authored by a team of five Ivey professors, “Michael McCain: Tweeting on the Maple Leaf Foods Account” is one of the shortest case in Ivey Publishing’s case collection, but also one of the most innovative. Uniquely written in the form of just seven tweets, this case addresses the potential repercussions within Maple Leaf Foods Inc. following CEO Michael McCain’s decision to tweet his personal political views from the company’s Twitter account – all from a cross-enterprise perspective.
In this episode, we’re joined by two of the case’s authors, Steve Foerster and Gerard Seijts to explore the genesis of the case, the innovative ways it can be taught, teaching from a cross-enterprise perspective, and disruption and innovation in the case writing process.
Gerard Seijts is a professor of organizational behaviour at Ivey Business School and is the executive director of the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership.
Steve Foerster is a finance professor at Ivey Business School.
For more information on the case, please visit How I teach it: Michael McCain: Tweeting on the Maple Leaf Foods Account.
Lego Group: An Outsourcing Journey
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11/19/20 • 17 min
Professor Torben Pedersen, a prominent scholar in international management at Bocconi University, joins host Matt Quin to explore what went into his best-selling case study, Lego Group: An Outsourcing Journey. In order to survive the large st internal financial crisis in its roughly 70 years of existence, management had, among many initiatives, decided to offshore and outsource a major chunk of its production to Flextronics. Only three years into a ten-year contract, the two companies decided to part ways. Quin and Pedersen discuss how LEGO was able to not only weather this crisis but come out stronger. Consider reviewing Professor Pedersen's latest case: TELENOR GROUP: DEVELOPING A NEW BUSINESS MODEL Frank Elter, Marcus M. Larsen, Torben Pedersen 10/04/2019 View all cases authored by Torben Pedersen
Eli Lilly in India: Rethinking the Joint Venture Strategy
Ivey Decision Point
12/03/20 • 28 min
Professor Charles Dhanaraj explains how he modified a heavily tested and adjusted teaching plan once again, this time for the virtual classroom. How do we connect synchronous and asynchronous approaches, design breakout groups, and wrap-up a case method class successfully in what is a new environment for many instructors? Dhanaraj is Evelyn & Jay G. Piccinati Endowed Chair in Teaching Excellence, professor and chair of the Department of Management at the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver. Eli Lilly in India: Rethinking the Joint Venture Strategy Charles Dhanaraj, Paul W. Beamish, Nikhil Celly Eli Lilly in India documents the evolution of an international joint venture (IJV) over a 10-year period (1991 to 2001) between • Eli Lilly, a leading U.S. pharmaceutical company and • Ranbaxy, the Indian partner that marked Lilly’s entry into an emerging market, India. The case highlights three distinct phases of the evolution of the IJV and raises relevant management issues at different phases of the IJV's growth. Review the case here.
Jury Gualandris: Sustainable development in business education
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11/23/21 • 31 min
In this episode, we speak with Jury Gualandris, an associate professor of operations management and sustainability at Ivey Business School. Jury serves as the associate director of Ivey’s Centre for Building Sustainable Value, and leads the Network for Business Sustainability, a global network of over 35,000 business leaders and researchers that aim to mobilize more sustainable business strategies and practices worldwide.
Jury shares his definition of sustainability, discusses the importance of teaching sustainability in business schools, and explains how Ivey is uniquely equipped to meet the demand for sustainability education. Additionally, Jury talks about the new partnership between Ivey’s Centre for Building Sustainable Value and Ivey publishing, Ivey’s curated sustainability case collection, and the future of sustainability in business education. Enjoy!
Resources featured in this episode:
New Ivey initiative integrating SDGs into management educationHP Canada Co.: A Circular Supply Chain for Recycled PlasticA&W Canada: Serving Great Taste with Minimal WasteHuawei: Struggling to Develop a More Sustainable Supply NetworkCradle-to-Cradle Design at Herman Miller: Moving Toward Environmental SustainabilityPolyface: The Farm of Many FacesIvey, City of Guelph to unlock value of food ‘waste’
Digital Transformation at GE: What Went Wrong?
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11/02/21 • 28 min
We speak with Robert D. Austin, Professor, Information Systems at Ivey Business School, and an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Medical School about his best-selling case, Digital Transformation at GE: What Went Wrong? This case examines the digital transformation that GE had been attempting and the challenges it encountered, and is especially timely as many organizations accelerate their digital transformation efforts as a result of COVID-19.
Our conversation also touches on such topics as: strategy disruption, looking for – and following – compelling case stories, translating and scaling complex issues into a readable and easily understandable case, and teaching cases in tandem. We conclude our discussion with Rob’s thoughts on the evolution of the case method and Rob’s advice for new case authors.
Robert D. Austin is a professor of Information Systems at Ivey Business School, and an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Medical School.
Before his appointment at Ivey, he was a professor of Innovation and Digital Transformation at Copenhagen Business School, and, before that, a professor of Technology and Operations Management at the Harvard Business School. At Harvard, he chaired the executive program for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) for more than ten years.
Professor Austin has published widely, in both academic and professional venues, such as Harvard Business Review, Information Systems Research, MIT Sloan Management Review, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and the Wall Street Journal. He also is the author of nine books, more than 50 published cases and notes, three Harvard online products, and two popular Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) running on the Coursera platform. His “Cyberattack!" Simulation won the 2020 International Serious Play Gold Medal. His research on neurodiversity employment programs is funded by SSHRC.
Dessa: Growing a Diverse and Inclusive Artificial Intelligence Company
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07/13/21 • 28 min
In this episode we talk to Cheryl Gladu, Researcher-in-Residence, Thompson Rivers University, and author of Dessa: Growing a Diverse and Inclusive Artificial Intelligence Company. This case follows Dessa’s founder and chief operating officer, Vince Wong, as he develops hiring practices to create a diverse workforce while fostering a culture supportive of diversity. Cheryl discusses the importance of having uncomfortable conversations in the classroom, co-creating ground rules with students to approach these difficult conversations, the difference between dialogue and debate, defining implicit bias, and the value of workshopping a case before submission. Review the case here
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How many episodes does Ivey Decision Point have?
Ivey Decision Point currently has 18 episodes available.
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What is the most popular episode on Ivey Decision Point?
The episode title 'Jury Gualandris: Sustainable development in business education' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Ivey Decision Point?
The average episode length on Ivey Decision Point is 26 minutes.
How often are episodes of Ivey Decision Point released?
Episodes of Ivey Decision Point are typically released every 8 days, 14 hours.
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The first episode of Ivey Decision Point was released on Sep 15, 2020.
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