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Ivey Publishing | Where the world looks for business cases

April 2012


IN THIS ISSUE:
Coming Summer 2012 ... Coursepack Builder
Over 150 India-based cases
New Cases in Organizational Behaviour & Leadership
Award Winning Authors
ISB-Ivey Global Case Writing Competition Invitation
CourseMate Coming Summer 2012 ... Coursepack Builder

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Over 150 India-based cases

Ivey Publishing reached a milestone this month of now having more than 150 India-based cases in our collection.  We now have the largest collection of recent business case studies about the region. Roughly one new India-based case will be added to the collection each week in the future.


With a commitment to providing high quality cases for use in India, our growing collection provides students with comprehensive cases that reflect the changing Indian business environment. For a list of abstracts of our India case collection, please click here.

New Cases in Organizational Behaviour & Leadership

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

 

Transforming ICRISAT: The Leadership of Dr. William Dar

The case focuses on an agricultural institute, ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics), a part of international agricultural research consortium, CGIAR. Since its inception in 1972, ICRISAT has been a premier agricultural research institute with enormous international and national funding. Mismanagement and indifferent attitude of senior leadership at the top had resulted in multiple crises in organizational functioning and reduced funding by the donors. In addition to this, ICRISAT had to cope with an unfortunate chain of changes in leadership. ICRISAT had to undergo a difficult period of management changes and decline in the morale of the staff. The institute was facing daunting challenges when Dr. William Dar joined the institute as the director general. The case describes the various issues faced by Dar when he took over the reins of ICRISAT. The case also discusses his previous stints in various designations and the style of leadership displayed by him during those tenures. This case is aimed at helping students at post graduate level in understanding various issues related to leadership and change in an ailing organization.

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Corporate Restructuring of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation

This case describes the restructuring initiatives undertaken at Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) and the impediments faced by the managing director. This case deals with the concepts of restructuring and turnaround initiatives in an organization providing welfare services and public goods. The context is that of a state-owned enterprise (SOE) owned by a provincial government of an emerging economy, namely India. The objectives are to: examine the antecedents, consequences and linkages of regulatory policy relaxation on the SOE performance; illustrate the nature and diversity of stakeholders’ response to the SOE’s strategic initiatives as a result of changes in regulatory interventions and gain an insight into the internal dynamics within the top management of the SOEs in India. This case can be used in MBA level courses in the following disciplines: Organizational behavior and change management to examine how interventions, by the top management in changing the structure and culture of the organization precipitated a higher level crisis in the organization; Leadership to explore the dilemmas and impediments faced by the leadership during turnaround initiatives ...

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Apple A

The Apple A and B cases provide two perspectives on the evolution of Apple and are designed to evoke debate about models of strategy, organization and leadership. The A case presents the story of Apple from a hindsight rational analytic perspective in which students are able to apply a variety of models about strategy, organization, leadership and innovation. The second case presents a more nuanced account of the happenstance and serendipity in Apple's development and also raises questions about Jobs' leadership. The contrasting stories of the two cases are designed to provoke thoughtful debate and insight in the service of considering the implications for the fact/fiction of the information we receive, our capacity to make sense of that information, and furthermore how we can apply that understanding to how we manage and lead. A teaching note for this case is forthcoming.

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Award Winning Authors

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.

ISB-Ivey Global Case Writing Competition Invitation

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.

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