Upcoming Workshop Series in Ethiopia

Topic: Teaching with Cases, 39 Country Initiative, Ivey Publishing case collection

Addis Ababa University (AAU) School of Commerce

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Organizer: Konjit Hailu (PH.D) KONJIT.HAILU@aau.edu.et with Ivey Business School

Presentation by Professor Yamlaksira Getachew, Babson College

Topic: Teaching with Cases, 39 Country Initiative, Ivey Publishing case collection

Addis Ababa University (AAU) Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE)

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Organizer: Ethiopia L. Segaro (D.Sc.) ethiopia.Legesse@aau.edu.et with Ivey Business School

Presentation by Professor Yamlaksira Getachew, Babson College

Topic: Teaching with Cases, 39 Country Initiative, Ivey Publishing case collection

Wednesday and Thursday, July 16 & 17, 2025

Organizer: Gashaw Tibebe (ph.d) gashawtibeb@gmail.com with Ivey Business School

Presentation by Professor Yamlaksira Getachew, Babson College

About the 39 Country Initiative

Founded in 2010 by Prof. Paul Beamish, the 39 Country Initiative is housed at the Ivey Business School. The initiative supports universities in the world’s poorest 46 countries, as defined by a per capita income of less than $2,000 USD annually. It leverages Ivey Publishing’s vast collection of cases and teaching materials and has a global network of schools supporting its key activities.

Read more about the 39 Country Initiative here.

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Register to become a 39 Country Initiative administrator

Self-register as an Educator

How to register as a 39C Administrator

Step 1: To register for a 39C account, please click here.

Complete the required fields on the form and choose your current role that is most applicable to you at your institution: Professor/Instructor, Dean, Administrator, Librarian/Copyright Clearance. Click Submit.

Step 2: Account Verification

Once you have submitted the form, you will receive a confirmation email for your request. One of our customer service team members will review your request to verify your academic credentials. Verification may take longer if all fields are not accurately complete.

Once your account is approved, you will receive an email confirming your registration and another email to validate your account and set a password.

How to order using your approved 39C administrator account

1.    Once your account is approved, go to the Ivey Publishing website – www.iveypublishing.ca

2.    Login to your account.

3.    Enter the product numbers or title on the top search bar for the required products.

4.    Click on the product title for additional details. Please note the 100% discount is applied to Ivey products only. Check the source is listed as “Ivey” for the discount.

Please scroll to the bottom of this page, and under the column CASE STUDIES, select  > Ivey Case Studies

or bookmark this link: https://www.iveypublishing.ca/s/category/all-collection/0ZG5c000000k9bNGAQ

5.    Select the quantities needed (one per student) and then ‘Add to Cart’. For products with multiple versions, select format as “PDF” and Language as “English” before adding to cart.

Get started with teaching case studies. Resources and tips to inspire students and keep them engaged. Access Teaching with Cases Resources here.

How to Search for Cases on the Ivey Publishing Website

Bios

Professor Paul Beamish

Paul Beamish has authored over 63 books and 170 refereed journal articles. His books are in the areas of International Management, Strategic Management, and Joint Ventures and Alliances. His articles have appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), and elsewhere. There are over 49,000 Google Scholar citations to his research. He served as Editor-in-Chief of JIBS from 1993-97 and is on numerous editorial boards. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was Dean of the AIB Fellows from 2014-17.

Beamish has authored 170 case studies, primarily in the international management area. These have appeared in journals, and in 160 books. 22 of his cases have won awards. 17 of his cases have been Best Sellers at Harvard. Over 100 have been translated into other languages. 4.5 million copies of his cases have been studied worldwide.

Professor Beamish (Bao Ming Xin in Chinese) has conducted research or written cases on Asia-specific issues for many years. He has served as a consultant to The World Bank on technology transfer to China, provided training programs in Asia for Global Affairs Canada, and co-edited a series of casebooks published in Chinese by Tsinghua University Press.

In 1994, he established a major stream of research at Ivey about Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) using Toyo Keizai data. This has resulted in 190 publications and served as the primary source for over 30 PhD dissertations. Relatedly, Ivey has long been the world’s leading centre for research on international joint ventures and alliances. Its PhD program graduates have authored over 200 publications. Beamish has been the largest contributor.

Professor Beamish has supervised 36 PhD dissertations, many involving International Joint Ventures and Alliances. In 2010 he founded The 39 Country Initiative, which allows Ivey cases to be used cost-free at Universities in 46 countries where the per capital income is less than US $2,000, and arranges container load shipments of educational material to select countries.

Professor Yamlaksira Getachew

Yamlaksira Getachew is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Babson College. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada; an MBA from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; and a B.A. in Business Management from Jimma University, Ethiopia, where he graduated with a Gold Medal.

Yamlaksira has taught strategy courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels across several academic institutions. He co-authored two strategy cases: one on Ethiopian Airlines and another on a Kenyan social enterprise tackling poverty. Yamlaksira's research focuses on the interplay between businesses and sustainable development (with particular emphasis on Africa, economic institutions, and inequality) and examines topics in strategic management, international business, and entrepreneurship areas. His research has been published in leading business journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Policy, and Journal of World Business, and he has received several prestigious awards, including the Stockholm School of Economics 2016-2018 Gunnar Hedlund Best Dissertation Award and the 2020 UNCTAD-AIB Award for Research on Investment and Development.

Yamlaksira advised several entities, including UNCTAD, on foreign direct investment in least developed countries (LDCs), and the African Union (AU) on the development of the 2050 Africa's Integrated Maritime (AIM) Strategy. He has also been actively involved in the 39 Country Initiative, which aims to contribute to poverty reduction by improving business education in the world's 39 least-developed countries of which 32 are in Africa.