Quick view Case Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter? By David A. Garvin, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld, Liz Kind, Google's Project Oxygen started with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do managers matter? The topic generated a multi-year research project that ultimately led to a comprehensive program, built around eight key management... April 03, 2013 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Big Hit Entertainment and Blockbuster Band BTS: K-Pop Goes Global By Anita Elberse, Lizzy Woodham, Bang Si-Hyuk ('Hitman Bang') is the founder and co-chief executive officer of Big Hit Entertainment, the company behind BTS, a 'K-pop' band that has found unparalleled success around the globe-a remarkable feat given that most of their songs are in... June 08, 2020 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Cirque du Soleil By Thomas J. DeLong, Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, Retaining talent is an issue for any company whose success relies on the creativity and excellence of its employees. This is especially true for Cirque du Soleil, the spectacularly successful "circus without animals," whose 2,100 employees include 500... July 18, 2002 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case GE's Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welch's Leadership By Christopher A. Bartlett, GE is faced with Jack Welch's impending retirement and whether anyone can sustain the blistering pace of change and growth characteristic of the Welch era. After briefly describing GE's heritage and Welch's transformation of the company's business... April 28, 1999 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Pinckney Street By William J. Poorvu, Arthur I Segel, John H. Vogel, Lisa Strope, Erich Dylus, Although inexperienced in real estate, Edward Alexander hopes in June 2013 that youthful enthusiasm and an $240,000 in savings and inheritance will help him enter the real estate business. His experience chronicles the process of finding, evaluating, and... May 31, 2013 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Army Crew Team By Scott A. Snook, Jeffrey T. Polzer, The coach of the varsity Army crew team at West Point assembled his top eight rowers into the first crew team and the second tier of rowers into the second team using objective data on individual performance. As the second boat continually beat the first... January 31, 2003 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Chase Sapphire: Creating a Millennial Cult Brand By Shelle Santana, Jill Avery, Christine Snively, The Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). The launch of the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card was enthusiastically received by Millennial consumers,... September 28, 2017 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Trader Joe's By David L. Ager, Michael A. Roberto, The Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). Based on a variety of metrics, Trader Joe's ranked as one of the most successful grocers in the United... September 07, 2013 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Amazon.com, 2021 By John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock, Galen Danskin, Gabriel Ellsworth, In February 2021, Amazon announced 2020 operating profits of $22,899 million, up from $2,233 million in 2015, on sales of $386 billion, up from $107 billion five years earlier (see Exhibit 1). The shareholders expressed their satisfaction (see Exhibit... August 03, 2015 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance By Nancy F. Koehn, Erica Helms, Phillip Mead, Provides an opportunity to examine leadership and entrepreneurship in the context of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, a compelling story of crisis, survival, and triumph. Summarizes Shackleton's career as an officer in the British Merchant... April 02, 2003 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations By Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou, Leanne Fan, The Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their... November 10, 2020 $0.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Sprouts Farmers Market By Rajiv Lal, Forest L. Reinhardt, Natalie Kindred, January 02, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Industry and Background Note A Note on Highly Selective College Admissions By Randolph B. Cohen, September 15, 2022 $8.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Jaipur Rugs: Transforming Communities through Social Entrepreneurship By Kakoli Sen, Shruti Gill, In 1978, Jaipur Rugs was founded in a small village in Rajasthan, India. Over the next 40 years, Jaipur Rugs developed into a global business with strong social responsibility. Right from the start, the founder looked beyond profits to provide a source... April 03, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Raizen: Helping to Decarbonize the World? By Gunnar Trumbull, Pedro Levindo, Daniel Tong, Rafaella Mazza, Raizen, the world's largest sugar and ethanol producer, strived to find ways to expand the second-generation ethanol (E2G) market, which it pioneered. The company planned to invest R$24 billion (around $4.6 billion) in 20 production plants, with a total... December 12, 2023 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Together for Sustainability By Ranjay Gulati, David Shin, Emily Tedards, May 06, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Industry and Background Note Making Strategic Choices By Jan W. Rivkin, January 11, 2024 $8.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case BYD: From Battery Manufacturer to Electric Vehicle Innovator By Baolong Ma, Yixuan Niu, Ning Su, Yongyi Zhang, BYD Auto Co. Ltd. (BYD Auto) became the world's biggest electric-vehicle (EV) maker in 2023. Before its inception in 2003, BYD Auto's parent firm, BYD Co. Ltd. (BYD), was a Shenzhen, China-based battery manufacturer. Under the visionary leadership of the... March 11, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Harvest Hands: A Hopeful Future By David Wood, Hayden Woodley, Ben Haddon, Jim Collins, executive director of Harvest Hands, was very active in the day-to-day operations of Harvest Hands, but he also bore the responsibility for planning for the future of the registered charity. Jim together with his wife, Jacintha Collins,... March 11, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case New Zealand: Measuring What Matters By Joshua Foster, Adam Grisolia, In the spring of 2019, Grant Robertson, New Zealand's finance minister, was in the process of developing New Zealand's first-ever Wellbeing Budget. The prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, had spoken publicly about her vision to rethink how the... March 20, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Industry and Background Note Managing Innovation: A Process Perspective By Panos Markou, This technical note provides a framework on innovation as a process ("how"), rather than just an outcome ("what"). It explains that innovation is a set of activities, incentives, and metrics that, when structured and implemented effectively, maximize the... April 14, 2024 $8.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Trimster: How Payment Modes Cause Order Returns By Jaya Priyadarshini, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Ritu Srivastava, Trimster was a premium men's personal care e-commerce start-up founded in 2015. In India, where trust deficit was a primary reason for the failure of new brands, most customers preferred cash on delivery (COD) modes of payment. Companies, however,... March 04, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Snow Valley Resorts: Revisiting the Service Blueprint By Harjot Singh, Arunesh Garg, On July 10, 2023, a Snow Valley Resorts co-owner was reviewing his organization's first quarter financials for fiscal year 2022-23. Snow Valley Resorts was founded in 1993 in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, when the first of the group's four... March 24, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Khalil Fattal & Fils SAL: Exploring the Online World By Randa Salamoun, Lina Tannir, In June 2023, the director of corporate communication and digital services for Khalil Fattal et Fils SAL (a subsidiary of Fattal Group) was tasked with presenting a strategy for the company's online activities. The family business was a fourth-generation... March 26, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Exercise Setting Your Project Team Up for Success By Heidi Gailor, Michelle Wang, Carolyn Nye, This classroom exercise is designed to guide students through the steps of launching a successful project team. It is ideally implemented at the beginning of a team project to help students get to know their teammates; build a better understanding of the... March 26, 2024 $8.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Love Inventory: Business Ecosystem Governance of an E-commerce Platform By Miao Cui, Luya Xing, Lili Cui, Xin Li, Yaozhou Zheng, Shuwen Li, Shanghai Zhongdan Information Technology Co. Ltd. (SZIT), established in 2017, was an e-commerce firm focusing on the flash-sales industry. Helping clothing brands clear their inventory quickly, SZIT rapidly attracted a large number of brands and... March 24, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Healthy Eats: Farm to Folks Meals By Ian Dunn, Isaac Rigby, Luke Thomas, owner and operator of Healthy Eats (HE), was considering the future direction of the business following an inflow of cash from a silent investor. HE was a meal prep delivery service located in London, Ontario that focused on fueling healthy... February 29, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Bosch Automotive Product (Changsha): Leveraging Culture for Digital Transformation By Wei Zeng, Chunyan Peng, Ning Su, Shuang Ni, Ning Deng, Zhaofang Li, Bosch Automotive Product (Changsha) Ltd Co, is a leading automotive parts manufacturer, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bosch, a multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Gerlingen, Germany. Since 2020, Bosch Changsha had... March 11, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Hunter Steel: Hunting for Labour By Julie Gosse, Emma Giroux, Owner and general manager of Hunter Steel, is struggling to decide what to do about Ontario's labour shortage as a result of COVID-19. The steel company is categorized as Tier 2, and requires general labourers and saw mechanics within each warehouse in... March 04, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Hopeworks: Reaching a Turning Point By Sheri Lambert, Amy Lavin, Charles Miller, Hopeworks Camden (Hopeworks), a small non-profit organization based in Camden, New Jersey, with a $4.7 million annual budget in 2022, was looking ahead to 2024. It was mid-July 2023, and the board of directors tasked Don Rhoton, Hopeworks' chief... March 18, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Exercise Mystery Corporations USA By Vaughan S. Radcliffe, Evan McCaul, This exercise presents common size financial information, from which students identify seven anonymized major US companies in the following business areas: railway services, meat product processor, telecommunications service provider, technology... March 17, 2024 $8.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Pasquale's Pizzeria: Turning Pizzas into Profits By Julie Gosse, Lucas Cicchelli, The accounts manager at the Commercial Bank of Canada, was reviewing a loan application from Pasquale's Pizzeria, located in Sarnia, Ontario. The business owner was ready to expand his family's business to London, Ontario, having requested a $300,000... March 06, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Toronto General Hospital's ICU Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic By Gal Raz, Roy Katznelson, In March 2020, the leadership team at Toronto General Hospital (TGH) needs to plan resources to accommodate the new influx of COVID-19 ICU patients. Key resources for ICU capacity include beds, physicians, nurses, and PPE. The current demand coming from... March 05, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Black Fly Beverage Company: Ready to Grow By Ian Dunn, Leon Geng, In 2020, Cathy Siskind-Kelly and Rob Kelly, co-founders and co-owners of Black Fly Beverage Company were deciding whether they should undertake a major expansion of their company's production facility. Black Fly was started in London, Ontario in 2005 and... March 04, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Amazon vs. Walmart: Using Financial Ratios to Compare Companies By Mitchell Stein, Vaughan S. Radcliffe, Vineet Yagnik, In 2021, an investment management firm analyst needed to convince his portfolio manager that technology companies such as Amazon.com Inc. (Amazon) could have a strong investment thesis since they improved upon existing business models. To make his... March 11, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Casing Petrochemicals Limited: Reviving Growth in Turbulent Times By Gurveer Singh Jaswal, Neetu Yadav, Casing Petrochemicals was a leading importer of Petroleum Derivatives (such as Base Oil), Chemicals and Refrigerants in India. With 90% of the firm's revenue and profits contributed by the Petroleum Business, the other businesses were secondary in nature... March 19, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Sonos Inc.: Product Development at the Speed of Sound By David Wood, Scott Loveland, DIGITAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE COMING SOON. Kurt Preston, Vice President of Global Sourcing & Product Operations at Sonos Inc. (Sonos), had been considering a Joint Development Model for future Sonos products. In 2022, Sonos began to expand their product... March 21, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Licious: Marketing Plant-Based Meat By Bikramjit Rishi, Sapna Popli, Lovesh Jethwani, In October 2022, Licious, the market leader in India's meat industry, launched its new brand UnCrave in the plant-based meat market segment. The launch was aligned with the company's portfolio diversification strategy, leveraging its strong core brand... March 18, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Brookfield Renewable Partners: Is Entropy a Sustainable Investment? By Jason Gosal, Andre Corona, Katerina Petrou, Josh Weinstein, Patricia Helena Hein, An investment proposal reached the offices of Brookfield Renewable Partners (BRP) that outlined an opportunity for BRP to invest $300 million in Entropy Inc., a carbon capture and storage (CCS) company based in Calgary, Alberta. A subsidiary of... March 18, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Zibusiso Mkhwanazi: A Serial Entrepreneur at a Crossroad By Jabulani Maphalala, Steven Zwane, Zibusiso Mkhwanazi, chief executive officer of Avatar South Africa, looked out of his office window in Johannesburg. Mkhwanazi was contemplating whether he should stay at Avatar or move on to new things. This question was triggered by a media briefing... March 10, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Indian Premier League (IPL) Media Rights: Media Valuation By Anushka Kulkarni, Santosh Kumar Patra, The Indian Premier League (IPL), a Twenty20 cricket league, underwent a transformative shift in 2022 as the IPL governing council conducted an e-auction for media rights, valuing them at US$5.64 billion. Viacom18 secured digital rights for $2.57 billion,... March 05, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Minespider: Building Responsible Battery Supply Chains with Blockchain By Michael Carrillo, Joel Davis, This case addresses managing critical mineral supply chains by focusing on cobalt used in lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and the impact of mining operations in Central Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Minespider, a... March 05, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Making a Team on Dream11: A Fantasy Sports Platform By Peeyush Pandey, Agrata Pandey, On November 9, 2020, Chhavi Jain wanted to participate in a contest created by her college friend Vikas Jack on the Dream11 mobile application. The contest was for the final match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 between the Delhi Capitals and the... March 10, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Prajiv Farm Solutions: Fodder Value-Chain Interventions for Profitability By Nisha Bharti, Sushant Malik, Akash Mondal, It was June 2023, when Dr. Himanshu Awasthi, founder of Prajiv Farm Solutions, considered expanding his business by addressing the challenges in the agricultural sector, particularly fodder production. Recognizing the issues faced by Indian farmers-low... March 04, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Peloton Interactive Inc.: A Push to Keep Users Pedalling By Joshua Foster, Ryan Cheng, The case centres on the pricing and business model challenges facing Peloton Interactive Inc.'s new CEO, Barry McCarthy. With the decline in demand post-pandemic, McCarthy must make pricing and product decisions that balance revenue, profitability, and... March 20, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case The Himalayan Chocolate: Brand Extension for Social Enterprise By Bharat Damani, Khyati Jagani, The Himalayan Chocolate is a start-up brainchild of Rohan Keshewar. Stuck in Manali during the Lockdown, Rohan stayed with a family in their homestay facility. While interacting with the host family, Rohan discovered that the locals had two primary... March 11, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Bavarian Nordic A/S: Yet Another COVID-19 Vaccine? By Robert D. Austin, Christoph Grimpe, This case focuses on the efforts of Bavarian Nordic A/S, a Danish pharmaceutical company, to create a new COVID-19 vaccine. Their vaccine is based on a newer technology and has the potential to provide longer-lasting protection than the currently... March 03, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Saera Electric: Electric Three-Wheelers in India By Soumyadeep Kundu, Sandeep Sivakumar, Liji James, Nitin Kapoor, the managing director of Saera Electric Auto Pvt. Ltd. (Saera Electric), a leading three-wheeler electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer in India, was excited to capture the opportunity brought about by some recent favourable regulatory... March 19, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case Microsign Ltd.: Engaging in Business with a Conscience By Ekta Sharma, In October 2021, the founder and chief executive officer of Microsign Products Ltd. in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, was planning to expand the company, but wanted to ensure consistency for employees with disabilities. The company was planning to increase... March 07, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case The Solidarity Fund in South Africa: Creating Social Value in a Crisis By Albert Wocke, Louise Whittaker, The Solidarity Fund (the Fund) was established in March 2020 by a business group in South Africa to support the South African Government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. By September 2022, the Fund had proven highly effective and helped stabilize the... February 29, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Case BharatPe: Governance Failure in a Start-Up By Arun Kumar Tripathy, Nidhi S. Bisht, In May 2022, BharatPe, a startup,announced a revamp of its governance framework to address any potential risks associated with suspicious transactions in response to a prolonged dispute with its Co-founder and former Managing Director (MD), Ashneer... March 20, 2024 $11.95 (USD) Choose Options