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IMD's selection of case studies on sustainability

OCP Africa: Building Ecosystems for Sustainability

The OCP Africa pursuing a non-traditional, innovative approach to entering the African continent with a partnership-based strategy.

Case study ● Strategy - Sustainability
By Professor Bettina Büchel and Mahwesh Khan
May 2021
Impaakt: Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Improve ESG Ratings

The global rise of responsible investing urged the development of coherent and reliable methodologies gauging the effect of business on ESG aspects.

Case study ● Sustainability - Digital - Strategy
By Professor Benoit F. Leleux, Pablo Percelsi, René Rozendal, Pietro Valenzano Menada and Stefan Witschi
April 2021
Impaakt: Crowdsourcing Better ESG Ratings

The global rise of responsible investing urged the development of coherent and reliable methodologies gauging the effect of business on ESG aspects.

Case study ● Sustainability - Digital - Strategy
By Professor Benoit F. Leleux, Pablo Percelsi, René Rozendal, Pietro Valenzano Menada and Stefan Witschi
April 2021 Award winner
The Future of the Fashion Industry in a Post-COVID-19 World

In the last decade, the fashion industry had come under intensifying scrutiny for being exploitative, environmentally damaging, and unsustainable.

Case study ● Strategy - Digital - Sustainability
By Professor Niccolò Pisani and Inès Augier
April 2021
PMI's Vision of a Smoke-free Future: Can a Tobacco Company be Sustainable

PMI organized the 2020 Stakeholder Engagement Meeting in Lausanne to convene key stakeholders to engage with PMI's smoke-free business transformation.

Case study ● Strategy - Social Innovation - Sustainability
By Professor Vanina Farber and Head of Sustainability Natalia Olynec
March 2021
Financing Change, Changing Finance: Should Triodos Invest in Tesla?

Triodos motto is Financing for change. Change Finance and understood sustainable finance as a driving force in the transition to a more sustainable world.

Case study ● Finance - Sustainability - Equity and Inclusion and Diversity
By Professor Vanina Farber and Universidad de los Andes Professor María Helena Jaén
March 2021
HelloFresh: Will Meal Kit Home Deliveries Still be Hot Post-COVID-19?

Even though sales grew as a result of the lockdowns imposed by governments in several markets, could this growth be maintained in post-pandemic times?

Case study ● Strategy - Sustainability - Disruption
By Professor Niccolò Pisani and Ornella Lupoi
March 2021
Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein Post-COVID-19: What's in Store?

The global fashion industry was among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, facing major disruptions on an unprecedented scale.

Case study ● Strategy - Digital - Sustainability
By Professor Niccolò Pisani and Inès Augier
March 2021
A World Without Cigarettes? Actions Speak Louder than Words

PMI's sustainability leadership team bringing together actions and words, and saying how the PMI's strategy would create value for society and shareholders

Case study ● Sustainability - Stakeholder Management - Value Creation
By Professor Vanina Farber and Universidad de los Andes Professor María Helena Jaén
November 2020
A World Without Cigarettes? Building a Sustainability Materiality Matrix

PMI being a part of so-called sin industries committed to phase out cigarettes in favor of a smoke-free future based on reduced-risk products.

Case study ● Sustainability - Stakeholder Management
By Professor Vanina Farber and Universidad de los Andes Professor María Helena Jaén
November 2020

Award-winning and Best-selling Case Studies on Sustainability

Impaakt: Crowdsourcing Better ESG Ratings

By Professor Benoit F. Leleux, Pablo Percelsi, René Rozendal, Pietro Valenzano Menada and Stefan Witschi

Case study ● Sustainability - Digital - Strategy
April 2021 Award winner
Ecoalf: Because there is no planet B

By Professor Benoit F. Leleux and Thomas Brochier

Case study ● Entrepreneurship - Sustainability - Growth - Supply Chain - Culture
October 2020 Award winner
PMI's vision of a smoke-free future: Can a tobacco company be sustainable

By Professor Vanina Farber and Term Research Professor Natalia Olynec

Case study ● Sustainability - Strategy
January 2020 Award winner
Patagonia's sustainability strategy: Don’t buy our products

By Adjunct Professor Francisco Szekely and Zahir Dossa

Case study ● Sustainability
February 2018 Award winner
Growing pains: Mahindra First Choice 2017

By Professor Charles Dhanaraj, Professor Thomas W. Malnight and Ivy Buche

Case study ● Strategy - Entrepreneurship - Sustainability
Award winner
Coco-Mat: The Spartan mattress revolution

By Professor Benoit F. Leleux, Mary Papageorgiou and Sophia Shilimindri

Case study ● Strategy - Entrepreneurship - Change Management - Sustainability
Award winner
Newlight Technologies: Plastics for a carbon negative future

By Daina Mazutis and Daniel Day

Case study ● Strategy - Entrepreneurship - Sustainability
Award winner
Ayala Corporation: One family's contribution to nation building

By Professor Benoit F. Leleux and Anne-Catrin Glemser

Case study ● Family Business - Corporate Governance - Entrepreneurship - Communication - Sustainability
Award winner
Terracycle: Outsmarting waste

By John Stuart Read, Philippe Margery and Jan Lepoutre

Case study ● Entrepreneurship - General Management - Strategy - Sustainability
Award winner
Terracycle (K): Branded waste

By John Stuart Read, Philippe Margery and Jan Lepoutre

Case study ● Entrepreneurship - General Management - Strategy - Sustainability
Award winner
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