<iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-PHTV9K7" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden">
Loading
Skip to Main Content
Product cover image for Northbridge's Gamble on the Global Leadership Summit (A): To Host or not to Host?

Northbridge's Gamble on the Global Leadership Summit (A): To Host or not to Host?

Dusya Vera, Mohit Gupta

Product #:W49198
Supplier:Ivey
Discipline:General Management, Organizational Behaviour/Leadership
Setting:Canada, 2025
Details:Case (PDF) • 2 pages • 2026-04-17

Subjects:

Organizational cultureLeadership and managing peopleOrganizational behaviorManagementDecision making

Industries:

Education institutions

Geography:

CanadaNorth America
Your Price:$9.71

Purchase this material with a free Educator Account and enjoy more benefits:

  • Free Educator Copy
  • Free Teaching Notes
  • Build your coursepack
  • Discounted academic price

After only five months as president of the MBA Association at Northbridge Business School (Northbridge), 29-year-old Arjun Mehta faced a critical leadership decision: whether to revive the Global Leadership Summit, a prestigious international student leadership conference that had been dormant for six years. Arjun had to decide whether to pursue the revival at all, weighing reputational risk, institutional constraints, team capacity, and personal opportunity costs against the potential to create lasting global impact. At some point, the Dean recommended cancelling the event. Arjun had to decide whether persistence represented courageous leadership or poor judgement.

Learning Objectives

This case is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses on leadership, organizational behaviour, and strategy, and for sessions on decision-making under uncertainty and leader character.

After working through the case and assignment questions, students will be able to accomplish the following objectives:
  • Evaluate leadership decisions under conditions of high uncertainty and incomplete information.
  • Distinguish between rational persistence and escalation of commitment.
  • Apply the Ivey Leader Character Framework to analyze how character dimensions impact judgement and decision-making, and how virtues, in excess or deficiency, become vices of leadership.
  • Assess opportunity costs in leadership roles.
  • Understand information asymmetry in organizations.
  • Reflect on their own decision-making philosophy and tendencies.
Loading
Case Study: Northbridge's Gamble on the Global Leadership Summit (A): To Host or not to Host? (English version) | Ivey Publishing