This case documents the history of Ashok Leyland (AL), India’s second largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, and documents its growth and trajectory until 2007, when the company adopted its new vision of more than double the size in a fairly mature industry. . The challenge the case poses for students is to understand how the company, …
This three-part case provides the opportunity to engage students in an investigation of how intercultural considerations can influence decision-making in the areas of management, law, operations, and corporate social responsibility. The cases involve two non-profit organizations, one in the US and one in India. Both organizations focus on food redistribution, but face different challenges due …
Seven years after graduation, an MBA graduate assumes the position of COO in a company he has never heard of, in an industry he knows nothing about. You are climbing a vertical learning curve, mired in crisis, exposed to change and leadership. You also need to develop a complementary working relationship with the CEO.
Shows the system changes that IBM applied. Drafted as a brochure after discussing the case (A).
Designed to stimulate discussion of outsourcing issues from the perspective of a company considering outsourcing its IS operations to a third party.
Intermountain Health Care (IHC), a Utah-based comprehensive care system, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care is performed, but also on the physician’s decision-making and the care process itself, with the aim of increasing the productivity of physicians and the quality …
Most of business activity can be understood as the progression from knowledge to results that go from the initial spark of an idea to the actual realization of financial and strategic results. Yet executives and corporations are not always driving this advance, both in the headline-grabbing large-scale transformative initiatives we read about and the rest …
The secret membership of the prestigious Augusta National Golf Club is widely believed to exclude women. When feminist lawyer Martha Burk receives a mysterious list of “members”, she has to decide how best to use this information to break the glass ceiling. Burk of the National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO) takes on Hootie Johnson …
If students have the English PDF of this briefcase in a course pack, they also have the option of purchasing an audio version.
This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2008 and 2012. To strengthen the company’s team of real estate agents, JLL merged in 2008 with The Staubach Company, a real estate services provider with a team of top-notch real estate agents and a great cultural fit with JLL. Staubach …