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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
By Benoit F. Leleux Jan Van der Kaaij Christine Weinmann Catherine Agamis Robbie Cairns and Paul Hunter
December 2022
Winning sustainability strategies
Case Study Sustainability Entrepreneurship
Values-based entrepreneurship: Opaline’s bubbles (Abridged, French translation)
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…
3rd prize in the 2022 HEC CSR Challenge case writing competition
By Benoit F. Leleux and Marc Chauvet
©2022
Values-based entrepreneurship: Opaline’s bubbles (Abridged, French translation)
By Benoit F. Leleux and Marc Chauvet
©2022
Summary
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 deeply rooted values, shared with many in the valley. Opaline was her experiment to prove to the world that a different type of capitalism was possible, one that put human and environmental aspects where they belonged – at the epicenter of a business revolution. De Meyer had regularly been asked in interviews why Opaline was not trying to grow faster, rather than ensuring that its existing suppliers and distributors developed alongside the company. She always replied by drawing an analogy with a growing forest, in which no tree stood much higher than the others or else it would fall, alone, with the next storm. The analogy proved robust but now a more violent storm – a global pandemic – was brewing that was hurting everyone at once. What would it mean for all the projects the team had set out for 2020? And more fundamentally, could Opaline weather this storm as it had already done several times thanks to its strong ecosystem of partners? Would it pay the price for not having extended its roots deep enough when it could?
3rd prize in the 2022 HEC CSR Challenge case writing competition
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Organization Opaline
Industry Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage
Language French
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Professors honored by The Case Centre among the top 50 best-selling case authors (2021/2022)
Kamran Kashani
Kamran Kashani
Emeritus Professor
Peter Killing
Peter Killing
Emeritus Professor
Carlos Cordon
Carlos Cordon
Professor
Stefan Michel
Stefan Michel
Professor
Dominique Turpin
Dominique Turpin
Emeritus Professor
Case Study Entrepreneurship Sustainability
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…
3rd prize in the 2022 HEC CSR Challenge case writing competition
By Marc Chauvet and Benoit F. Leleux
©2022
Values-based entrepreneurship: Opaline’s bubbles (Abridged)
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
By Carlos Cordon Benoit F. Leleux and Marc Chauvet
Case reference: IMD-7-2286 ©2022
Celonis: Building a lean digital ecosystem
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 Award 2022 Silver Award
By Ina Toegel and Martin Králik
EFMD Excellence in Practice Case, May 2022
DNB and IMD: Building a culture of collaboration, through action learning. At scale
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
By Bettina Büchel and Nancy Lane
EFMD Excellence in Practice Case, May 2022
ABS, IMD and OCP: Beyond. An ambitious next level talent development program
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
By Frédéric Dalsace
Case reference: IMD-7-2292 ©2022
Schneider Electric: Becoming the world leader in sustainability
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
By Benoit F. Leleux Anna Ziolkovska Jose Mora Said Chekri and Thibaud de Veyrac
Case reference: IMD-7-2282 ©2022
Lionheart Farms (Philippines) and the tree of life
Case Study Strategy Growth Customer Centricity Sustainability
Kinto: Toyota’s new mobility services platform
In 2019, Toyota launched KINTO, its new mobility services brand, in Europe – to address the increasing shift in consumer preferences from ownership to on-demand usership. KINTO was only the third brand to be launched by Toyota in its history (after Toyota and Lexus). This signaled to the market that the world’s largest automaker was serious abou…
2022 John Molson MBA International Case Writing Competition – 2nd Prize
By Dominique Turpin Winter Nie and Ivy Buche
Case reference: IMD-7-2320 ©2022
Kinto: Toyota’s new mobility services platform
Case Study Marketing Strategy Diversity and Equity and Inclusion Growth Social Platform Sustainability
Kineer: A social marketing challenge
Kineer Services Limited (Kineer) was a social marketing startup set up in 2018 by Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi, a prominent Indian transgender, and Manish Jain, an ex-hospitality industry veteran. Their objective in setting up Kineer was to provide a life of dignity to the socially stigmatized third gender community in India. As a startup, Kineer fa…
2022 John Molson MBA International Case Writing Competition – 3rd Prize
By Dominique Turpin Umashankar Venkatesh Jones Mathew and Sandeep Puri
Case reference: IMD-7-2293 ©2022
Kineer: A social marketing challenge
Case Study Sustainability Entrepreneurship Growth Marketing Pricing Leadership
Bobsla: E-motion on snow
FULPMES, AUSTRIA, AUGUST 2021. Sergey Ignatyev, the founder and CEO of Bobsla, had arrived in Austria in 2019 from his native Saint Petersburg, attracted to the country by Startup Tirol, a foundation dedicated to bringing top technology startups to Austria. His revolutionary electric vehicle, a hybrid between a snowmobile and a sled on tracks, h…
2022 John Molson MBA International Case Writing Competition – Shared 4th Prize
By Benoit F. Leleux
Case reference: IMD-7-2315 ©2022
Bobsla: E-motion on snow
Bobsla: E-motion on snow
By Benoit F. Leleux
Case reference: IMD-7-2315 ©2022
Summary
FULPMES, AUSTRIA, AUGUST 2021. Sergey Ignatyev, the founder and CEO of Bobsla, had arrived in Austria in 2019 from his native Saint Petersburg, attracted to the country by Startup Tirol, a foundation dedicated to bringing top technology startups to Austria. His revolutionary electric vehicle, a hybrid between a snowmobile and a sled on tracks, had already won multiple prestigious technology and innovation awards and was the talk of the town on European slopes. The list of possible uses was growing every day. At the same time, the quest for investors had proved more arduous than expected. The question now was whether he could salvage his startup and finally turn it into the “Tesla on Snow.” Prototypes were making the rounds between exhibitions and technology fairs already, attracting attention and supportive editorials. The thrill of riding an electric snowmobile at 30 km/h sitting only millimeters above the snow was an incomparable and addictive experience. The hard part now was to define a proper business model (Selling hardware? Organizing events? Licensing the patented technology? B2B or B2C? Austria, US or Canada?) and developing a robust business plan to take the Bobsla to the world’s snowy slopes. Every dimension of the plan needed to be internally consistent and sustainable to make the Bobsla the “Tesla on Snow,” the ideal replacement for the snowmobiles craved by nature lovers around the world but which were actually environmental disasters: noisy, polluting and gas guzzling.
2022 John Molson MBA International Case Writing Competition – Shared 4th Prize
Reference IMD-7-2315
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Organization Bobsla
Industry Automotive, Electric Vehicles
Language English
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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
By Benoit F. Leleux and Marta Widz
Case reference: IMD-7-2313 ©2022
Dachser (A): Intelligent logistics
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
By Benoit F. Leleux Marta Widz and Marc Chauvet
Case reference: IMD-7-2259 ©2021
Brown-Forman: Nothing better in the market
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
By Vanina Farber and María Helena Jaén
Case reference: IMD-7-2336 ©2021
Nia Impact Capital: Active ownership for social justice
Case Study Sustainability
Angaza: A Silicon Valley journey (Abridged)
Angaza’s story is not a typical solar light story, but the story of a female social entrepreneur with a for-profit Silicon Valley mindset transforming a social enterprise from a hardware to a software business model. It is about pivots, changing value propositions, and new products and business models as Angaza evolves to escalate social impact …
2022 The Case Centre Competitions – Outstanding Case Writer
By Vanina Farber and Shih-Han Huang
©IMD 2021
Angaza: A Silicon Valley journey (Abridged)