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Innovation

SLB: Disrupting the Traditional Energy Industry Through AI Drilling Innovations

SLB (formerly Schlumberger), the world’s largest oilfield services company, developed autonomous directional drilling...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Oct 2023

Social enterprise

São Paulo’s Housing Movement Organizations: Activists Squat, Lobby, and Protest for Affordable Housing

Housing Movement Organizations (HMOs) in São Paulo, Brazil, work to solve homelessness where housing far outpaces wag...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Oct 2023

Social enterprise

UK’s Embassy Village: Collaborating Across Public, Private, and Nonprofit Sectors to Tackle Rough Sleeping

Greater Manchester, England, has the third highest population of rough sleepers (people living on the streets) in the...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Jul 2023

Finance

TruthCRM Competitive Auction in Mergers and Acquisitions Simulation

The TruthCRM case provides students with an interactive simulation of the competitive auction process to maximize val...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Apr 2023

Social enterprise

Is Hydrogen the Future of Clean Energy for Business?

By 2023, companies of all sizes and across multiple industries had started to create and publicly announce Net Zero c...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Apr 2023

Social enterprise

Net Zero Climate Commitments: Realistic Goal or Branding Exercise?

In 2022, companies of all sizes and across multiple industries started to create and publicly announce Net Zero clima...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Jan 2023

Human resource management

The Future of Org1: In Invitae or Out?

This case centers on technologist and founder Alex Furman of the genetics testing company Invitae. At Invitae, Furman...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Jan 2023

Sustainability

UC Berkeley Chou Hall: Can the TRUE Zero Waste Team Overcome Challenges to Achieve Top Certification?

University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business’ Chou Hall sought TRUE Zero Waste certification on a short ...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Jan 2023

Social enterprise

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Separating Fact From Fiction

In 1992, 179 countries effectively agreed to end the fossil-fuel age at the United Nations Conference on Environment ...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Jan 2023

Social enterprise

San Rafael: How Uncommon Stakeholder Alliances Reduced Chronic Homelessness

In early 2016, San Rafael, California, created a new position - Director of Homeless Planning and Outreach. The goal ...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Oct 2022

Innovation and technology

Leading Through Influence at Scale: Open Source Security at the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit consortium of devoting to supporting the worldwide ecosystem of open source...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Oct 2022

Social enterprise

Corporate Greenwashing: Are Environmental Claims Just Empty Promises?

Greenwashing is a term that describes the situation where a company’s environmental claims exceed what the corporatio...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Oct 2022

Ethics

Responsible A.I.: Tackling Tech’s Largest Corporate Governance Challenges

In 2017, Google announced that it would be an 'AI first' company and prioritized the development of an ethical charte...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Oct 2022

Social enterprise

Father Joe’s Villages: How a One-Stop-Shop Tackles Homelessness in San Diego

Father Joe’s Villages (FJV), a nonprofit in San Diego, California, seeks to prevent and end homelessness. FJV develop...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Oct 2022

Social enterprise

Cancel Culture: Corporations Flock to Carbon Offsets to Solve their Climate Problem, but do Offsets Truly Reduce Emissions?

Companies can offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by, for example, funding a solar power plant in place of a planne...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Oct 2022

Leadership

Little Tokyo Service Center: 'Welcome to Little Tokyo, Please Take Off Your Shoes'

Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), a nonprofit founded in Los Angeles in 1979, has sought to honor tradition yet def...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Jul 2022

Leadership

Community Coalition: How One Organization Achieves Successful Leadership Succession

Community Coalition believes its “people first” culture will transform social and economic conditions in South Los An...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Jul 2022

Sustainability

Generation Z: Does Climate Change Concern Match Knowledge?

In Fall 2020, researchers tested how much graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business understood about...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Apr 2022

Sustainability

Carbon180 in 2021: New Challenges for a New Era

In 2020, Carbon180 moved to Washington DC to focus increasingly on policy change that would catalyze carbon removal. ...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Apr 2022

Innovation and technology

Aptera Motors

Aptera is on its second life. It originally began as a VC-backed electric car company in the 1990s. But that first li...

Berkeley Haas Case Series 01 Apr 2022

Berkeley Haas Case Series

A new collection of business case studies from Berkeley Haas

The aim of the Berkeley Haas Case Series is to incite business innovation by clarifying disruptive trends and questioning the status quo.

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