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Finance

Valuing a Microfinance Institution (Or Private Growth Enterprise): Dealing with Uncertainty

The Valuing a Microfinance Institution (Or Private Growth Enterprise) case study provides students with a scenario wh...

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Strategy

MasterCard vs. Visa: The Fight for Mobile Payments

The MasterCard vs. Visa case study allows students to put themselves in the shoes of Visa CEO, Joseph Saunders as Vis...

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Strategy

Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC)

The IMEC case study allows students to discuss open innovation in the context of research organizations with industry...

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Strategy

Back to the Future: The Evolution of Sun Microsystems' Business Model (1982 to 2007)

This case study outlines the time period between 1982 and 2007 of Sun Microsystems. The case showcases the company's ...

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Entrepreneurship

The Energy Biosciences Institute: A Novel Partnership or a Sellout?

The EBI case study is an open innovation case study. It documents a proposed partnership between the University of Ca...

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Strategy

DreamCycles: Sustaining Growth

DreamCycles is an online retail store specializing in high-end road and mountain bikes. After nearly three years of c...

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Strategy

PAX Scientific

The PAX Scientific case study is a technology startup case that allows students to discuss how a science-driven inven...

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Innovation and technology

Dolby Laboratories, Inc.

Dolby had led the development of noise reduction technology in both the film and music industries and in 1992 decided...

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Strategy

Craigslist Online Community

Online community, 'CRAIGSLIST' was an early winner on the Internet, but by 2001, the pioneer was running out of money...

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Entrepreneurship

Yahoo! Connected Life

Yahoo! Felt it needed to establish a brand presence beyond the PC and the Web browser, and move onto the platform tha...

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Leadership

Making the Case Method Work for You

A description of the purpose, process, and efficacy of the case method as a learning tool.

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Entrepreneurship

Tellme Networks, Inc.

The Tellme Networks case study focuses on the company's future growth strategy in 2006. At the time, Angus Davis, co-...

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Marketing

WorldCom: 'Generation D'

The Worldcom case study takes place in 2000-2001 when the company's 'Generation D' advertising campaign was launched....

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Strategy

Mark Logic

The Mark Logic case study takes place in 2004 when Paul Pedersen, founder of Mark Logic, is at a crossroads about whi...

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Human resource management

Cisco Systems: Developing a Human Capital Strategy

Like many technology organizations in the late 1990s, Cisco was booming. It grew so quickly, in fact, that it was bri...

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Entrepreneurship

The MU Chip

Mu Chip was a breakthrough in semiconductor technology, a microscopic chip that involves tags that emit radio signals...

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Strategy

zipRealty: Leading a Start-up to the Next Level

Start-up company zipRealty is a real estate brokerage that leveraged the Internet on the belief that selling or buyin...

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Marketing

Palm Computing in 1994

In 1992, Palm Computing was founded to create add-on software for the emerging Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) marke...

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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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