Season 3
Jury Gualandris: Sustainable development in business education
Jury Gualandris, an associate professor of operations management and sustainability at Ivey Business School, 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.
Season 3
Nadine De Gannes: Case writing as an early-career academic
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.
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Tender Greens: Can They Keep the ‘Green’ Promise in Beef Sourcing?
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?," an operations case that deals not only with supply chain issues, but sustainability, strategy, ethics, and managing stakeholder interests.
Season 3
Digital Transformation at GE: What Went Wrong?
We speak with Robert D. Austin, Professor, Information Systems at Ivey Business 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.
Season 3
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. 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.
Season 3
Michael McCain: Tweeting on the Maple Leaf Foods Account
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. 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.