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“Carbon is the new calorie”: Logitech’s carbon impact label to drive transparency in sustainability
This topical case covers the period from 2019 to 2022, when Prakash Arunkundrum, head of global operations and sustainability at Logitech, was focusing on reducing the company’s carbon footprint. It recounts how he and his team gained internal support to embark on an ambitious carbon labeling initiative and created a transparent methodology to a…
2022 EFMD Case Writing Competition Award – Responsible Leadership
Case Study
Sustainability
Entrepreneurship
Strategy
Supply Chain
Diversity and Equity and Inclusion
Lionheart Farms (Philippines) and the tree of life
Lionheart Agrotech Limited, the holding company of Lionheart Farms is developing a large-scale sustainable hybrid coconut plantation with integrated processing and manufacturing capacities in the Philippines. The case describes the idea of the founders, their journey, the challenges they met and how they solved them. The case explores the key c…
2023 Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards – Highly Commended
Professors honored by The Case Centre among the top 50 best-selling case authors (2021/2022)
Case Study
Family Business
Sustainability
Supply Chain
Strategy
Operations
Dachser (A): Intelligent logistics
The case, based on extensive interviews with top executives and two generations of Dachser family owners, documents the genesis and spectacular growth of the global logistics specialist, a group that now has close to 400 locations on all five continents and employs 30,000+ people. Despite its global footprint, Dachser stayed loyal to both its co…
Selected for the 2023 Schlesinger Global Family Enterprise Case Competition
Case Study
Digital
Disruption
Entrepreneurship
Celonis: Building a lean digital ecosystem
To maintain its position as the category leader in process mining and execution management, Celonis needed to be able to facilitate – or even automate – corrective measures on these processes to edge closer to process mining nirvana, i.e. a fully automated, intelligent and real-time execution management system (EMS). But how to determine the rig…
2023 John Molson MBA International Case Writing Competition – 3rd Prize
Report
Sustainability
Strategy
Winning sustainability strategies
As the expectations on corporate responsibility increase, and as transparency becomes more prevalent, companies are recognizing the need to act on sustainability. Professional communications and good intentions are no longer enough. Winning Sustainability Strategies helps executives aiming to create a thriving, sustainable future for their busin…
Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Gold Award – Best Advance in Education Delivered Through Technology
Report
Organizational Learning
Organizational Transformation
DNB and IMD: Building a culture of collaboration, through action learning. At scale
Norway’s financial services group DNB entered the 2020s on a
high note of best-ever quarterly performance; a highly diverse
workforce; and great strides in rolling out innovative services.
Nonetheless, its top management was conscious that the company needed to strengthen the way it collaborated along functional and divisional lines. The chal…
EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2022 Silver Award
Report
Organizational Learning
Organizational Transformation
Talent Management
ABS, IMD and OCP: Beyond. An ambitious next level talent development program
In 2018, OCP Group – the Moroccan-based world leader in plant nutrition and phosphate industry, and one of the most important employers of the private sector in the country – was a decade into an ambitious transformation program to capture higher value-added downstream business opportunities. To achieve its growth ambitions, it needed to develop…
EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2022 Gold Award
Book
Strategy
ALIEN thinking: The unconventional path to breakthrough ideas
How do people come up with truly original ideas? For the past decade, the authors of this book have studied individuals who have made leaps of creativity-inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs and artists-and concluded that there are five patterns of thinking that distinguish them from the rest of us. These five patterns-Attention, Levita…
The Business Book Awards 2022 – Highly commended
Book
Digital
Organizational Transformation
Hacking digital: Best practices to implement and accelerate your business transformation
Digital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall into simple traps along the way. Written by a team of global digital transformation thought leaders, Hacking Digital provides practical advice and informatio…
2021 Axiom Business Book Awards – Bronze Medal
Book
Agility
Leadership
Resetting management: Thrive with agility in the age of uncertainty
The ability to renew competitive advantage with flexibility is essential for any business in today’s turbulent world. How do you go beyond trendy buzzwords and master the principles of business agility? Resetting Management helps leaders understand why business agility matters. Agility releases a new level of energy, innovation and entrepreneurs…
The Business Book Awards 2022 – Change & Sustainability Finalist; CEO Today Magazine’s list of the top 10 “Books to Help CEOs Thrive in the New World of Work”
Case Study
Family Business
Diversity and Equity and Inclusion
Strategy
Sustainability
Value Creation
Brown-Forman: Nothing better in the market
London, UK, July 2020. G. Garvin Brown IV, the chairman of Brown-Forman Corporation and 5th generation family shareholder, was preparing to celebrate the firm’s 150th anniversary. Despite its current global footprint, a turnover in excess of $3.3 billion and over 4,800 employees worldwide, Brown-Forman had remained in Louisville, Kentucky, close…
2021 EFMD Case Writing Competition Award – Family Business
Case Study
Finance
Sustainability
Investment
Diversity and Equity and Inclusion
Nia Impact Capital: Active ownership for social justice
The case is about a sustainable investor firm, Nia Impact Capital (Nia) (Oakland, California), and its founder and CEO, Kristin Hull. Hull aims to invest in gender and racial justice and to make money with meaning and purpose. She brings the logic of impact investing to public markets, exercising active ownership, and engaging with portfolio com…
2021 EFMD Case Writing Competition Award – Responsible Leadership
Case Study
Sustainability
Entrepreneurship
Values-based entrepreneurship: Opaline’s bubbles (Abridged)
Orsières (Valais, Switzerland) April 2020. Opaline, an original juice production company with high social and environmental standards had begun in 2010. It took founder Sofia de Meyer over 10 years to build a responsible and impactful company aligned with her own aspirations, not just a lifestyle venture but one that would capitalize on her deep…
2021-2022 HEC Montréal AEMBA CSR Case Writing Competition – 3rd prize
Case Study
Sustainability
Strategy
General Management
Social Innovation
Schneider Electric: Becoming the world leader in sustainability
Schneider Electric is a multinational company providing energy management and automation. The case briefly outlines the company’s history and describes the progressive integration of sustainability efforts into its overall strategy. This 20-year journey culminates in 2021 when Corporate Knights ranked Schneider Electric No. 1 worldwide for its s…
2021-2022 HEC Montréal AEMBA CSR Case Writing Competition – 2nd Prize
Best-selling Case Study
Case Study
Sustainability
Entrepreneurship
Strategy
Supply Chain
Diversity and Equity and Inclusion
Lionheart Farms (Philippines) and the tree of life (Abridged)
Lionheart Agrotech Limited, the holding company of Lionheart Farms is developing a large-scale sustainable hybrid coconut plantation with integrated processing and manufacturing capacities in the Philippines. The case describes the idea of the founders, their journey, the challenges they met and how they solved them. The case explores the key c…
2021-2022 HEC Montréal AEMBA CSR Case Writing Competition – 1st Prize