This case concerns Gene Cattie Enterprises (GCE), a manufacturer of a variety of fabricated metal home accessories, including mailboxes and planters. Founded in 2001 by Gene Cattie, a former human resources professional for a large diversified financial services company, GCE manufactures planters in five basic colors in a small facility in central Virginia. In the …
By the mid-1980s Asda was one of the UK’s most successful retail companies. In 1991, the chain of 200 grocery stores experienced disorientation, a demoralized workforce, declining profits, rising debt, falling stock prices, and facing bankruptcy. This case describes the company’s downfall and features Archie Norman, a talented young executive who was hired to restore …
Encouraged to analyze the implementation of a large process transformation and technical infrastructure project in a university environment. Allows an instructor to teach change management, leadership, and technical project management.
A manager of a company listens to an employee, who is African American, announces that she is leaving the company and tries to understand the situation.
Supplementary case for KS1016.
Chateau Qanafar was a small Lebanese winery that has been run as a family business since its founding in 2005. By 2015, Chateau Qanafar had managed to produce one of the best Middle Eastern wines and gained international recognition. Despite this success, the founder of the company understood that the general business environment in Lebanon …
Just as exercise is related to physical fitness, networking is a relational fitness; H. The health and resilience of your social and professional networks require constant attention. This case describes a process that can be used to develop a long-term, strategic, and semi-automated approach to networking; H. how to develop a habit of networking.
On October 18, 2007, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced his intention to convert Petrobras’ existing participation agreements to exploit oil reserves in Ecuador’s Blocks 18 and 31 into maintenance contracts under which Petrobras would pay a production fee and reimburse investment costs, but get them all back. Oil would belong to the government. Correa also …
The case highlights power struggles within a Thai family that owns and operates a fresh food stall in Bangkok. The case examines the depths to which the Thammawattana dynasty sank to maintain control of a profitable cash-in-hand business that made matriarch Suwapee Thammawattana a billionaire at the time of her death at the age of …
It describes the four main public policy goals underpinning US law to regulate business in the early 21st century: promoting economic growth; Protect workers; Promote consumer welfare and promote the public good. Other great economic powers tend to enact laws that promote the same ends, albeit with different emphasis on different ends and different ways …