April 2012

		Coming Summer 2012 ... Coursepack Builder
		New Cases in Entrepreneurship, General Management & International
		Award Winning Authors
		Upcoming Conferences
		ISB-Ivey Global Case Writing Competition Invitation

This content management tool is designed to give our customers the flexibility to assemble custom course packs that can be downloaded instantly from the Ivey Publishing website. More information to follow soon!

The newest cases from the Ivey case collection are available for review. View New Cases for more details on cases registered in your discipline.

Scrums, Sprints, Spikes and Poker: Agility in a Bulgarian Software Company

The case is about a software development company, Telerik, which was based in Sofia, Bulgaria, with offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. The company was founded in 2002 and had become a world-leader in user interface (UI) components for Microsoft’s .NET framework. Students will learn to analyze the factors involved in managing culture and the effects of culture on organizational activities, explore the processes of agile product development, specifically as used in software development, and examine its implementation, study the vital role of communication in both effective organizational management and in maintaining responsive customer service, examine the challenges involved in recruiting, retaining, managing and rewarding employees in a high competitive industry and understand the challenges involved in managing organizational growth while maintaining high quality products and customer responsiveness.

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Experience-Wine.com: The Monte Lauro Vineyards Story

The case describes an innovative business model offering wine and a French cultural experience to North American markets. Students are given an opportunity to learn about the challenges of reviving a 1,000 year old chateau, farmhouse and vineyard while building a viable wine export and travel experience business. The case refers to an online, 15-minute video that includes an interview with the entrepreneur, pictures of the Montlaur estate and excerpts about Guédelon Castle, a medieval construction project. This case is primarily written to be used in a course on innovation management; however it is also appropriate for courses on strategy, international management behavior and entrepreneurship. It can be used at either an undergraduate or graduate level.

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Craig Kielburger Cases

This six part video case series features social entrepreneur Craig Kielburger as he faces pivotal moments in his life and the remarkable evolution of his organization. This video case series is designed as a multiple use case since its scope is wide-ranging. It traces the evolution of both a leader and an organization through major strategic change. The case series lends itself to understanding leadership character, social entrepreneurship, strategic renewal and innovation in both not-for-profit and for-profit organizations. It has been successfully used with undergraduates, graduates and executives in courses on leadership, strategy and sustainability. The video case series provides an inspirational look at leadership and innovation and provides key insights about the relationship between leadership character, strategic renewal and social innovation. It is particularly suited to understanding elements of leadership character - transcendence, courage, justice, humanity, temperance and wisdom - and the important role of character in strategic renewal and innovation.

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Authors of Learning with Cases, Teaching with Cases and Writing Cases won the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method award presented by the European Case Clearing House during the 2012 annual case award ceremony.

Carol Stephenson, Dean of the Richard Ivey School said, “The award of Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method gives worthy recognition to three remarkable individuals who have dedicated so much of their lives to teaching people worldwide how to get the most out of cases. Jim, Mike and Louise have conducted more than 400 case writing and case teaching workshops for thousands of participants in more than 50 countries over the past 40 years. Their work is at the heart of the great case tradition we have developed at Ivey and the school is delighted at this recognition.” Congratulations on their achievement!

In addition, the case entitled Louis Vuitton in Japan, authored by Justin Paul, won an award in the Entrepreneurship case category.

We always enjoy meeting our customers. Please stop by the Ivey Publishing booth at any of the following conferences to say hello and learn more about our products and services.

Administrative Sciences Assoc of Canada (ASAC) – St. Johns, NL – June 9-12

Academy of International Business (AIB) – Washington, DC - June 30-July 4

Academy of Management (AOM) – Boston, MA - August 3-7

American Marketing Association (AMA) – Chicago, IL – August 17-19.

In partnership with the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Case Development at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Ivey would like to invite you to participate in the ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition 2012.

The objective of this competition is to help build a repository of high-quality, internationally benchmarked cases about Indian businesses. The cases should be original business case studies suitable for use in MBA classrooms across the world and should aim to showcase the unique challenges and issues faced by organizations and business leaders in India. Submissions must also include teaching notes in English.

Winning cases will be published in the Ivey-ISB co-branded case collection available through Ivey Publishing. First place winners will also receive a cash prize of US $4000. Second prize winners take home US $3000 and there are special category prizes of US $2000 per category. A panel of internationally acclaimed subject experts judge each case in a double-blind review process and will provide written feedback on each case.

Download the intent to participate form and email it to Ivey India. Deadline for submissions has been extended to April 30 for international participants.