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Leadership

LA-Más: Can Co-Leadership Improve Outcomes for Organizations and the Communities they Serve?

LA-Más is a nonprofit that combines design and architecture with policy experience to promote neighborhood resilience...

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Leadership

Food Forward: How Volunteer Teams Move Surplus Produce from Tree to Table

Food Forward's volunteers call it 'fruit therapy' to harvest excess fruit from citrus trees throughout Los Angeles kn...

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Finance

Using Data Analytics and Visualization in Accounting and Auditing at Toby Biotech Inc.

In this auditing and data visualization case on Toby Biotech Inc. (Toby), use of the data analytics tool Tableau and...

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Leadership

Seaview Investors: Hotel Private Equity Firm Finds New Demand in COVID-19 Pandemic

In mid-March 2020, Newport Beach-based Seaview Investors - a private equity firm that owned a portfolio of hotel fra...

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Innovation and technology

International Data Spaces: A Collaborative Organizational Moonshot

In March 2021 Reinhold Achatz, the Thyssenkrupp CTO and chairman of the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) ...

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Entrepreneurship

Connect-in-Place: Startup Disrupts Socializing and Learning During COVID-19

Two UC Berkeley students forced into online classes during COVID-19 realized - due to their volunteer experiences cha...

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Innovation and technology

Maire Tecnimont: The Creation of NextChem

Maire Tecnimont is an international leader in the engineering and construction of industrial plants. Since its foundi...

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Innovation and technology

Goodbaby: How a Chinese Underdog Became a World Leader Through Open Innovation

Goodbaby is an industry-leading manufacturer of juvenile products. Under a variety of brand names, nearly a third of ...

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Ethics

Theranos: How Did a $9 Billion Health Tech Startup End Up DOA?

Stanford University drop-out Elizabeth Holmes hoped to disrupt the traditional $75 billion blood-testing business wit...

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Innovation and technology

Barça Innovation Hub: Getting the Ball Rolling on Innovation

This case study follows the Spanish football club, FC Barcelona, as it starts to innovate and create an organizationa...

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Innovation and technology

The Cloud Computing Industry

Globally, the cloud computing industry is projected to reach $330 billion by 2022. Many enterprise software applicat...

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Innovation and technology

Zoom: The Challenge of Scaling with COVID-19 on the Horizon

In January 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States, American business leaders were o...

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Ethics

Google’s Dragonfly: The Ethics of Providing a Censored Search Engine in China

In 2018, a Google employee leaked that the world’s largest search engine was attempting to provide its service to Chi...

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Ethics

Ethereum: Navigating the Blockchain’s Sustainability Versus Profit Dilemma

The popularity of Blockchain—and its application to cryptocurrencies in particular—has soared in recent years. Blockc...

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Entrepreneurship

Medinas Health: Building a Medical Equipment Marketplace

This case centers on the startup Medinas Health, a technology company based in Berkeley, California that aimed to inc...

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Innovation and technology

Enel X: Driving Digital Transformation in the Energy Sector

Enel is one of the world’s largest electric utilities, based in Italy but operating in dozens of countries around the...

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Innovation and technology

Bosch: Scaling Large Company Innovation for Strategic Advantage

This case focuses on the Innovation Performance Management (IPM) methodology as a new approach whereby established a...

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Sustainability

Waste not, want not: Eliminating Patagonia's Pre- and Post-Consumer Textile Waste

Patagonia has set a goal of eliminating all textile waste by 2025. As a leader in the sustainable apparel industry, t...

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Entrepreneurship

Niantic Labs and the Professional Entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley: Google, Pokémon Go, and Beyond (Consolidated)

This case series focuses on the entrepreneurial career of John Hanke, a 1996 MBA graduate of the Haas School of Busin...

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Strategy

Oakland Athletics: Reinventing the Fan Experience and Business Model

This case focuses on the Oakland Athletics, one of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 30 franchises, in its quest - starti...

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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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