The case describes Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s recent arrival as CEO of Xero Ltd., a cloud-based accounting software company, and chronicles the initiatives she undertook to quickly turn the business around through a combination of organizational restructuring, divestitures of non-core assets, and balance sheet optimization, all to ready the company for a transformational acquisition opportunity. Sukhinder and her team formulated what they described .....more

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In April 2025, Linda Hasenfratz, executive chair of Linamar Corporation, needed to evaluate the strategic response scenarios available to the company in light of new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration and the resultant disruptions in the company’s North American business. <br><br>Linamar had grown from a one-person machine shop in 1966 to a global company with 75 manufacturing locations worldwide, employing more than 33,000 people. .....more

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In this article, the Dean of Western University’s Ivey Business School offers reflections on what business leaders should do as AI embeds itself in our day-to-day working lives. This article offers timeless advice because it is about how businesses should adapt in the face of technological change. Externally, leaders have a strategic imperative to create and maintain a distinctive value proposition in the face of strong AI-enabled forces for convergence. .....more

In January 2025, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. launched a breakthrough large language model (LLM) on the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) landscape. DeepSeek was a disruptive application: it had modest hardware requirements and low training costs and was released as a modified open-source app, allowing users access to the weights and codes DeepSeek used in its learning process. Users could run .....more

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