Stanislav Shekshnia

Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
This case chronicles a successful digital transformation in Russia, where JSC Raiffeisenbank, the Russian branch of the Austrian parent company, reinvented its organizational and management system to build a new digital value network. The case discusses the transition to a less hierarchical Agile organizational structure, driven by IT-intensive cross-functional product teams.

Published 21 Mar 2022

Reference 6738

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Banking

Region Europe

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This role play provides the participants with an opportunity to experience a live board meeting of a public company whose chair has been detained on suspicion of fiscal fraud and tax evasion. The emergency meeting has to decide 1. the fate of the incumbent chair: should he be immediately dismissed or not? 2. company’s and board’s positions on the arrest 3.

Published 10 Feb 2022

Reference 6652

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Region Global

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This role play provides the participants with an opportunity to experience a live board meeting of a public company whose chair has been detained on suspicion of fiscal fraud and tax evasion. The emergency meeting has to decide 1. the fate of the incumbent chair: should he be immediately dismissed or not? 2. company’s and board’s positions on the arrest 3.

Published 10 Feb 2022

Reference 6652

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Region Global

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Emmanuel Faber, the star Chair/CEO of the global Danone Group, was known for his leadership on sustainability. In 2020, he persuaded shareholders to vote for Danone to become France’s largest “entreprise à mission” (purpose-driven company) – giving it a new ESG-based legal status.

Published 24 Jan 2022

Reference 6712

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Food and Beverages Production

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Emmanuel Faber, the star Chair/CEO of the global Danone Group, was known for his leadership on sustainability. In 2020, he persuaded shareholders to vote for Danone to become France’s largest “entreprise à mission” (purpose-driven company) – giving it a new ESG-based legal status.

Published 24 Jan 2022

Reference 6712

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Food and Beverages Production

Region Europe

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Emmanuel Faber, the star Chair/CEO of the global Danone Group, was known for his leadership on sustainability. In 2020, he persuaded shareholders to vote for Danone to become France’s largest “entreprise à mission” (purpose-driven company) – giving it a new ESG-based legal status.

Published 24 Jan 2022

Reference 6712

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Food and Beverages Production

Region Europe

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Michael Bertram, the head of NCH private equity in Ukraine, and his small management team try hard to transform corporate culture of their agricultural companies in order to make them more productive. They experiment with various incentive schemes to make farm managers and employees to embrace the owners’ attitude.

Published 17 Nov 2021

Reference 6682

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Agriculture

Region Europe

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Michael Bertram, the head of NCH private equity in Ukraine, and his small management team try hard to transform corporate culture of their agricultural companies in order to make them more productive. They experiment with various incentive schemes to make farm managers and employees to embrace the owners’ attitude.

Published 17 Nov 2021

Reference 6682

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Agriculture

Region Europe

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In less than five years The Global Informality Project evolved from a one scholar's dream to a global network-based research exercise uniting hundreds of people across the world. It produced two volumes of The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, published by UCL Press in early 2018, a wiki-site and dozens of events around the globe.

Published 28 Jun 2019

Reference 6508

Topic Entrepreneurship

Industry Printing Publishing

Region Global

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In less than five years The Global Informality Project evolved from a one scholar's dream to a global network-based research exercise uniting hundreds of people across the world. It produced two volumes of The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, published by UCL Press in early 2018, a wiki-site and dozens of events around the globe.

Published 28 Jun 2019

Reference 6508

Topic Entrepreneurship

Industry Printing Publishing

Region Global

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VimpelCom is a Russian cellular operator that grew in less than 10 years (1992-2002) from a hypothetical concept, to small family-like company, to $2 billion NYSE-quoted corporation with 5.5 million subscribers on its wireless networks. This case study describes the perfect partnership between the two founders. One was "the professor", Dr.

Published 01 Jan 2003

Reference 5110

Topic Entrepreneurship

Industry Telecommunications

Region Other Regions

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Corporate Governance, Governance of Entrepreneurial Companies, Leadership, Leadership Development, Emerging Economies, Emerging Companies