News & Impact

At Ivey Business School, the 39 Country Initiative is a commitment to expanding access to high-quality business education in order to empower change through knowledge sharing. This page features updates and highlights from our recent activities, including our Case Teaching Workshops and the delivery of Ivey book shipments to partner institutions around the world. Learn more about the impact of these efforts through our news stories and see how we’re helping educators transform classrooms and strengthen business education ecosystems globally.

We also invite you to explore our broader social initiatives — programs and projects that reflect Ivey’s dedication to creating positive, lasting impact in communities beyond the 39 Country Initiative.

What our 39CI professors are saying about our case-teaching workshops

The impact of the 39 Country Initiative is best expressed by the educators it supports. Hear directly from faculty around the world as they share how access to Ivey cases and case-teaching workshops have transformed their classrooms, empowered their students, and elevated the quality of business education in their institutions.

“We are really interested in the case studies that your University is offering for free to countries such as ours. We greatly appreciate this gesture by your institution which will benefit immensely students from underdeveloped countries.” - Alfandega Estevao Manjoro, Dean, Faculty of Economics and Management, Catholic University of Mozambique

"I am really pleased to get access to all this valuable information which will certainly help our faculty and students. It is the first time that such information was made available to the black continent free of charge." - Dr. Sheikh Mohamed, President, Somaliland University of Technology, Somalia

“Let me congratulate you and your institution for this wonderful contribution you're giving to our universities.” - Ivan Collinson, Director for Academic Affairs, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique

“The Case Teaching Workshop was a great success for the participants from Benin, Niger, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Ivory Coast. They all expressed great interest in the case teaching method and were very motivated. It’s obvious that they have clearly realized the relevance of the case teaching method for the quality of the education delivered by their institutions. They greatly appreciate having the opportunity to have access to Ivey cases without cost. The message that I got is that in the months to come, they will start using cases in their classrooms." Elie Chrysostome, Professor of International Business at Ivey Business School

On behalf of our Dean, Professor Bijay KC, and myself, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to Professor David for his time and the valuable insights he shared. The session has certainly inspired us to incorporate more case studies and even begin writing our own in the near future. - Roshee Lamichhane, Assistant Professor and Coordinator - Enterprise and Management Development Center (EMDC), Kathmandu University, Nepal

The workshop by Professor Albert Wocke and the Q&A session were truly eye-opening, engaging, and highly educative. As a department, we have embraced the case method as a key approach to teaching, particularly at the postgraduate level. The session reinforced our belief in the effectiveness of this approach in developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills among students. We look forward to continued engagement with the 39 Country Initiative and exploring further opportunities to enhance case-based learning in our programs. ~ Douglas Musiiwa, HoD, Department of Business Administration Faculty of Social Sciences, National University of Lesotho

“I personally found it to be a method that is key to developing problem solving and entrepreneurial capacity of our students.” - Dr Ratakane B. Maime (DBA), National University of Lesotho (NUL), Lesotho

I have used Ivey cases for different courses and topics, as they are designed to develop managerial thinking through quantitative applications and logical reasoning. Initially, I found it difficult to integrate the case method with groups of students who were discovering this pedagogical tool for the first time. But the wide variety of Ivey cases available and the corresponding documentation helped me to do so with encouraging results. I've used it over the last two academic terms in Tanzanian executive-level masters classes and found that the students adopted it easily, without any problems. I'm convinced that in the future, more and more students in this part of the world will benefit from Ivey's knowledge-rich collection. —Shiv K. Tripathi Ph.D. Professor, School of Business Mzumbe University, Tanzania

Our institution hosted a French-language case teaching workshop organized in Senegal by the 39 Country Initiative. The 39-Country Initiative should be congratulated and encouraged to continue offering this case teaching workshop. Not only this workshop fosters collaboration between teachers and re-searchers from different backgrounds, but it also, and above all, gives students access to cases in French that help to reinforce their skills. Ultimately, with this type of workshop, we must train responsible citizens of the world, committed to the planet's common causes. -Ahmadou DIAKHATE, Directeur des Programmes Initiaux et des Accréditations, BEM Dakar, Sénégal

"This was my first Ivey Business Case Study workshop and I enjoyed every session. The sessions were involving and brought the best out of every participant." ... "In a nutshell, this is one of the best workshops I have attended because it has now given me the confidence to start writing cases. This will give a big boost to the pedagogy in Africa." ... "The Case study approach will enhance critical and creative thinking which will benefit the students in this continent." - Comments from workshops participants in Sénégal and Côte d'Ivoire