Numico: King project

Leaders of family firms are struggling with multiple role identities, and poor board management is putting the future of family enterprises at risk.

An in-depth study into Haier’s RenDanHeYi philosophy reinforces how it enables business units to innovate and develop new products based on what customers need.

Value chains today have a huge impact on multinational corporations’ right to exist and the way they compete. The future challenges associated with value chains are also huge and include new demands from society, emerging-market strategies, resour...

The supply chain is at the heart of every successful business organization's decision-making process. This textbook explains how to create a winning supply chain management strategy by spotlighting how senior executives in European and US companie...

A recent survey by IMD business school asked supply chain leaders across Europe to select from a diverse list of 20 hot topics what would be their biggest supply chain drivers in 2020. They were also asked to rank their company’s readiness to expl...

When appointed CEO of Novo Nordisk Engineering, Hans Ole Voigt created a vision for the company: Within five years NNE should be able to build a pharmaceutical plant in less than a year. The first reactions were quite negative, most of the employe...

The case presents the impact of the digital disruption coming from the sharing economy from the perspective of the largest American auto manufacturer, General Motors (GM). 
The car-sharing business led by Uber has been forcing a change to the trad...

Two years after joining the LEGO Group as their Logistics Manager for Europe and Asia, Egil Møller Nielsen finds himself fighting several battles at different fronts; the most difficult one on his home turf against his own management team. He is h...

In 2022, Apple lost US$1.5 billion in Black Friday sales due to iPhone supply constraints. One in three retail stores across the US and Europe experienced stockouts of the new iPhone 14 Pro. China sales were down more than 30% year on year. Apple’...

The Human Resources and Social Development Ministry (HRSD) was one of the largest and most important ministries in Saudi Arabia, with 22,000 employees serving more than 30 million customers and beneficiaries. The ministry consisted of four sectors...