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Innovation and technology

Innovation @ ENEL: From Monopoly Power to Open Power

Enel is an innovative Italian energy utility that is undergoing rapid change. Technically the company has enthusiasti...

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Social enterprise

Single Stop USA: Scaling the Model

The Single Stop USA case focuses on a nonprofit organization that supported low-income people and families build econ...

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Sustainability

Patagonia: Driving Sustainable Innovation by Embracing Tensions

This case study examines the tensions that arise when Patagonia simultaneously pursues sustainability and quality obj...

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Social enterprise

groupelephant.com: Going 'Beyond Corporate Purpose'

The groupelephant.com (formerly EPI-USE) case focuses on CEO Jonathan Tager as he grapples with implementing and sust...

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Entrepreneurship

Back to the Roots Ventures (BTTR)

This case study focuses on Back to the Roots (BTTR), a company started by two founders while they were still students...

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Social enterprise

Revolution Foods: Expansion into the CPG Market

The Revolution Foods (RevFoods) case study focuses on a fast growing, $100 million for profit organization, that has ...

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Social enterprise

Maddie's Fund: Building Community and Collaboration Against All Odds

The Maddie's Fund case study focuses on the organization's collaborative philosophy and its system-level strategy of ...

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Innovation and technology

HCL's Digital Open Innovation: Enhancing Business Model Effectiveness through Talent and Customer Acquisition, Development, and Retention

This case study provides an illustration of how the intersection of new digital technologies--mobile devices, cloud c...

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Entrepreneurship

Nimble Storage: Scaling Talent Strategy Amidst Hyper-Growth

The Nimble Storage case study tells the story of a rapidly growing storage startup in Silicon Valley. The key protago...

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Entrepreneurship

Resilience at InterMune: A Journey Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death

This case study is about a California-based biotechnology company that has experienced many ups and downs throughout ...

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Social enterprise

Fair Trade USA: Scaling for Impact

This case study focuses on Fair Trade USA, the leading third-party certifier of fair trade products in North America ...

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Entrepreneurship

3D Robotics: Disrupting the Drone Market

This case study focuses on 3D Robotics, a drone company with UAV platforms. The case study focuses on what 3DR should...

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Sustainability

Fish Friendly Farming: Water, Wine, and Fish - Sustainable Agriculture for a Thirsty World

This case study focuses on Fish Friendly Farming, part of a nonprofit organization, the California Land Stewardship I...

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Social enterprise

Deborah Cullinan and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The case study describes the work of Deborah Cullinan during her tenure as executive director of Intersection for the...

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Social enterprise

The Energy Foundation: Catalyzing and Adapting Networks in China

The Energy Foundation China case study focuses on EF China's history, network culture and processes, and how the orga...

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Strategy

Castlight Health: Disrupting the Health Care Industry

This case study focuses on Castlight Health, a company that offered web-based health comparison tools for consumers. ...

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Social enterprise

Theaster Gates: Artist as Catalyst for Community Development

The case study describes the work of Theaster Gates to revitalize the South Side of Chicago. As an independent philan...

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Social enterprise

The William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund: Catalyzing Networks and Collaboration

The William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund case study captures the story of the 20-year history of the Memorial Fund,...

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Marketing

J. C. Penney: Activist Investors and the Rise and Fall of Ron Johnson

The case study is set in 2012 and 2013. J.C. Penney is a venerable American institution, one of the last surviving de...

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Entrepreneurship

Chez Panisse: Building an Open Innovation Ecosystem

The Chez Panisse case study provides a brief history of the famous restaurant started by Alice Waters, but in the con...

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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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