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Social enterprise

Prototyping a Scalable Smart Village

The (A) case focuses on the development of a Smart Village in Mori, Andhra Pradesh (AP), India. The Chief Minister of...

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Innovation and technology

Innovation, Co-Creation, and Design Thinking: How Salesforce's Ignite Team Accelerates Enterprise Digital Transformation

From its inception, Salesforce, the cloud computing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) company, took a radically ...

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Sustainability

Sustainability Through Open Innovation: Carlsberg and the Green Fiber Bottle

The case follows Danish brewer Carlsberg as it develops the Green Fiber Bottle, a beer bottle made of wood pulp, in c...

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Social enterprise

BAYCAT: How a New Hybrid Nonprofit Model is Creating Sustainability and Driving Social Change

Villy Wang founded BAYCAT in 2004 with the ambitious mission of ending inequality and racism through powerful storyte...

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Finance

Grameen America: The Pivotal Role of Technology in Scaling

This case centers on Grameen America (GA), a $17mm nonprofit organization that has become a high-profile, high-growth...

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Finance

Abra: A Global P2P Payment Solution

Abra is an application that allows users to buy, store, and send more than twenty types of cryptocurrency. Founded by...

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Leadership

Young Guru Academy: Culture and the Return on Investment

This case focuses on the Young Guru Academy (YGA), a non-profit organization based in Istanbul, Turkey, that emphasiz...

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Innovation and technology

Sproutel: How Design Roadmapping Helped Improve Children's Health & Guide a Growing Company

This case aims to introduce students to the 'design roadmapping' process that connects customer and user experience d...

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Sustainability

Patagonia's Path to Carbon Neutrality by 2025

This case study describes Patagonia's goal to become carbon neutral by 2025 in an absolute sense -- that is to reduce...

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Marketing

Eyeo's Adblock Plus: Consumer Movement or Advertising Toll Booth?

The case centers on Eyeo GmbH, a German software development company, whose main product is Adblock Plus, the world's...

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Innovation and technology

Innovating Innovation @tk

This case shows how ThyssenKrupp (tk) has altered its innovation process in recent years. CEO Heinrich Hiesinger has ...

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Innovation and technology

Disruption in Detroit: Ford, Silicon Valley, and Beyond

The (A) case focuses on the Ford Motor Company in Spring 2016 and how its then-CEO, Mark Fields, and his senior manag...

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Social enterprise

Burning Man: Moving from a For-Profit to a Nonprofit, the Ultimate Act of Gifting

This case study focuses on Burning Man as an organization, and how its leadership intentionally moved from a for-prof...

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Leadership

Roche Pakistan: Turning Around an Organization Through Cultural Transformation

The Roche Pakistan case study focuses on a country in Roche Global's portfolio which was facing challenges. Farrukh R...

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Marketing

Rocket Fuel: Measuring the Effectiveness of Online Advertising

The case describes an experiment designed to measure the effectiveness of an online display advertising campaign. Aft...

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Diversity and equity

Eliminating the Gender Pay Gap: Gap Inc. Leads the Way

This case examines Gap Inc. as a trailblazer in gender pay equality with a focus on investing in gender equity in lea...

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Finance

Bridges Fund Management: Navigating Changes in the Political Economy

This case focuses on Bridges Fund Management (Bridges), an early leader in the impact investing space, with offices l...

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Sustainability

Reversing Climate Change Through Sustainable Food: Patagonia Provisions Attempts to Scale a 'Big Wall'

This case study focuses on Birgit Cameron, senior director of Patagonia Provisions, and several of her colleagues at ...

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Sustainability

Rewarding Consumers for Recycling Packaging: Kimberly-Clark Seeks Shared Value

This case describes how Kimberly-Clark is working to encourage consumer recycling of flexible plastic film packaging,...

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Finance

Better Ventures: Backing Entrepreneurs Building a Better World

This case centers on BV as it seeks to raise $20 million for its first standalone fund between 2014 and 2016. Wes Sel...

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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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