Author insight on featured cases

In this section authors from a wide variety of business schools talk about their writing and teaching experiences. Their comments offer you a unique insight into the case development process and their aims in writing the case. Some of these case profiles include a video clip of the author(s) discussing the learning objectives of their case.

Economics, Politics and Business Environment

Paper icon Bulldogs Under the Carpet
Maciej Kisilowski
CEU Business School
Featured in July 2011
Paper icon Revenue Flow and Human Rights: A Paradox for Shell Nigeria 
Aileen Ionescu-Somers and Ulrich Steger
IMD - International Institute for Management Development
Featured in December 2007

Entrepreneurship

Paper icon StudentCity.com
William Bygrave and Carl Hedberg
Arthur M Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Featured in December 2007
Paper icon The Koorana Crocodile Farm
John Thompson
University of Huddersfield
Phil Bretherton
Charles Darwin University
Featured in July 2009
Paper icon Vincent Kobler: The Road to Entrepreneurship in China
Donna Kelley
Babson College
Featured in December 2010

Ethics and Social Responsibility

Paper icon Betapharm: Be Different or Die
André Habisch and Stephan Kaiser
Katholische Universitat Eichstatt-Ingolstadt
Petra Kinzel
betapharm Arzneimittel GmbH
Nigel Roome
Solvay Business School
Featured in December 2007
Paper icon Coke in Kerala - case series
Terry Halbert
Temple University
Featured in October 2006
Paper icon ENEL: CSR and Performance Measurement (A) & (B)
Anna Pistoni and Lucrezia Songini
SDA Bocconi
Featured in December 2007
Paper icon The Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge Proposal
Howard Huscock
John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Featured in summer 2005
Paper icon innocent Drinks: Values and Value
Robert Brown and David Grayson
Cranfield University
Featured in December 2007
Paper icon Max Foundation: Saving Children's Lives Through Business Model Innovation New item
Luk Van Wassenhove and Martijn Thierry
INSEAD
Featured in October 2011
Paper icon Microsoft Bringing Technology to the Aging Population
Maurizio Zollo and Robert Crawford
SDA Bocconi
Featured in December 2007
Paper icon Norsk Hydro ASA: Sustainable PVC at Hydro Polymers?
N. Craig Smith and Josephine Brennan
INSEAD
Featured in December 2007
Paper icon Unilever and Oxfam: Understanding the Impacts of Business on Poverty (A) & (B)
N. Craig Smith and Robert Crawford
INSEAD
Featured in December 2007

Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour

Paper icon Deborah Jamieson and the University College London Hospitals
Julie Battilana, Anne-Marie Cagna, Thomas D'Aunno and Mattia Gilmartin
INSEAD
Featured in May 2007
Paper icon Video icon Jordan Cohen at pfizerWorks: Building the Office of the Future 
Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
IESE Business School
Featured in April 2011
Paper icon Novo Nordisk A/S - Integrating Sustainability into Business Practice
Mette Morsing
Copenhagen Business School
Dennis Oswald
London Business School
Featured in December 2007
Paper icon The Turnaround Man (A & B) and Harris Roberts (A, B & C)
Herminia Ibarra and Mark Hunter
INSEAD, France
Featured in August 2008

Knowledge, Information and Communications Systems Management

Paper icon Video icon Apple's iPhone: Calling Europe or Europe Calling?
Sandra Sieber, Josep Valor and Jordan Mitchell
IESE Business School
Featured in July 2008
Paper icon Euronext NV: The Fight for LIFFE
Elizabeth Powell and Alexandra Ranson
Darden School of Business
Featured in June 2005
Paper icon Multiasistencia on the Internet - case series
Javier Busquets
ESADE
Featured in October 2006

Marketing

Paper icon Asahi Beer Enters the Russian Market New item
Sergei Starov and Igor Gladkikh
Graduate School of Management
Ken Matsuno
Babson College
Featured in March 2012
Paper icon Caesar IT Services: Marketing Multiple Value Propositions in One Firm
Stefan Stremersch and Silvia Bellezza
IESE Business School
Featured in June 2010
Paper icon Domestic Arcade, Inc. and the Release of Wayne Reynolds's Offsides IV 
Leslie MacKrell and Eric Pliner
Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College
This case is part of the Reaching Out MBA LGBT Case Collection
Featured in March 2011
Paper icon Red Bull: The Anti-Brand Brand
Nirmalya Kumar, Sophie Linguri and Nader Tavassoli
London Business School
Featured in May 2006
Paper icon Renova Toilet Paper: Avant-garde Marketing in a Commoditized Category
Pierre Chandon, Yakov Bart, Steven Sweldens and Raquel Seabra de Sousa
INSEAD
Featured in October 2010
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Prashant Malaviya and Swati Srivastava
INSEAD
Featured in October 2008
Paper icon Tetra Prisma Aseptic
Paola Cillo, Luigi De Luca and Salvio Vicari
SDA Bocconi
Featured in December 2008

Production & Operations Management

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Marc Sachon and Jordan Mitchell
IESE Business School
Featured in May 2007
Paper icon Johannesburg Hospital Pharmacy Optimising Operations
Debashis Basu and Tessa Murray
Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
Featured in June 2008
Paper icon Massachusetts General Hospital's Pre-Admission Testing Area (PATA) New item
Kelsey McCarty
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jérémie Gallien
London Business School
Retsef Levi
MIT Sloan School of Management
Featured in March 2012
Paper icon New Look: Competing through the Design-Supply Chain Interface
Omera Khan
Cranfield University School of Management
Featured in July 2009
Paper icon Video icon Nike Football Team Sports: Agility as an Engine for Growth
Marc Sachon and Jordan Mitchell
IESE Business School
Featured in January 2010
Paper icon Pioneering Healthy Quick Service Food: The Case of YO! Sushi 
Marc Day
Henley Business School
Featured in October 2011

Strategy and General Management

Paper icon A Grand Entrance? Li Ning's Emergence as a Global, Chinese Brand 
Johannes Meuer, Barbara Krug, Tao Yue and Lori DiVito
Rotterdam School of Management
Featured in September 2011
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Johanna Mair and Mark Fruechtnicht
IESE Business School
Featured in July 2009
Paper icon ALDI in Australia New item
Tom Osegowitsch and Markus Goelz
The University of Melbourne
Featured in March 2012
Paper icon ALDI: The Hard Discount Phenomenon - different ways to use this case
Daniel Corsten, Nirmalya Kumar, Sophie Linguri and Akhila Venkitachalam
London Business School
Featured in July 2010
Paper icon ALDI: The Hard Discount Phenomenon
Daniel Corsten, Nirmalya Kumar, Sophie Linguri and Akhila Venkitachalam
London Business School
Featured in May 2006
Paper icon Celtel Nigeria: Towards Serving the Rural Poor
Jamie Anderson, TiasNimbas Business School
Martin Kupp, European School of Management and Technology, Berlin
Featured in November 2009
Paper icon China Aviation Oil
Stewart Hamilton and Jinxuan (Ann) Zhang
IMD
Featured in December 2008
Paper icon easyJet The Web's Favourite Airline
Brian Rogers and Nirmalya Kumar
IMD
Featured in spring 2000
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Africa Arino, Pinar Ozcan, Jordan Mitchell and Brian Hohl
IESE Business School
Featured in June 2009
Paper icon Iberdrola: A Utility's Approach to Sustainability and Stakeholder Management
Tanguy Jacopin and Joan Fontrodona
IESE Business School
Serge Poisson-de Haro
IESE Business School & HEC Montréal
Featured in December 2007
Paper icon IBM in China: Designing a Stakeholder Assessment Team & IBM in China: Responding to a Government's Social Initiatives
Steven White
CEIBS - China Europe International Business School
Featured in December 2007
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illycaffè: Value Creation through Responsible Supplier Relationships
Francesco Perrini and Angelo Russo
SDA Bocconi
Featured in December 2007
Paper icon A Russian MacDonald's - Fantasy or Reality: Managing the Growth of Chainaya Lozhka Company
Galina V Shirokova and Olga R Verkhovskaya
Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg State University
Featured in December 2007
Paper icon Lady Gaga - Born This Way? 
Jamie Anderson and Jörg Reckhenrich
Martin Kupp, ESMT European School of Management & Technology GmbH
Featured in June 2011
Paper icon One Game to Rule Them All New item
Hanna Halaburda, William Collis, Rob McKeon and Ivan Nausieda
Harvard Business School
Featured in March 2012
Paper icon Ryanair - The Low Fares Airline: Whither Now? 
Eleanor O'Higgins
University College Dublin (UCD)
Featured in May 2011
Paper icon Stable Diet: Growing within an Expanding Niche
Denis Harrington and Chris O'Riordan
Waterford Institute of Technology
Featured in May 2006
Paper icon Stakeholder Management: The High-speed Train Through Castellbisbal (Barcelona)
Tamyko Ysa, Joan Playà and Paula Gràcia
ESADE
Featured in November 2009
Paper icon Svenska Handelsbanken: Sustaining Growth in a Decentralised Organisation
Hamish Scott
Ashridge Business School
Featured in July 2010
Paper icon Virgin Mobile UK
Jamie Anderson
TiasNimbas Business School, Netherlands
Martin Kupp
ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Germany
Featured in December 2010
Paper icon Waste Concern - Turning a Problem into a Resource
Johanna Mair and Jordan Mitchell
IESE Business School
Featured in December 2007
Paper icon Zara: Responsive, High Speed, Affordable Fashion
Nirmalya Kumar and Sophie Linguri
London Business School
Featured in May 2006
Paper icon Zopa.com
Jamie Anderson and Martin Kupp
ESMT - European School of Management & Technology
Featured in April 2007

Specialist case series

Paper icon Blue Ocean Strategy cases and book chapters
A comprehensive set of pedagogical materials on blue ocean strategy is available from ecch. A professor can use these materials to teach blue ocean strategy in the MBA and executive classrooms, workshops, and in the company setting.
Featured in January 2010
Paper icon Cases from the INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group
Cases from the INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group focusing on the challenges of managing humanitarian aid.
Featured in December 2008
Paper icon FocusAsia: Business leaders case study and video series
Asia Case Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong
Featured in October 2006
Paper icon Gulf-based cases from Amity University New item
This collection of nine cases was developed for GETEX 2012 by faculty at Amity University Research Centers in India and Dubai.
Featured in April 2012
Paper icon Mainstreaming corporate responsibility
Twelve case studies were developed as part of a three-year project on Curriculum Development for Mainstreaming Corporate Responsibililty, sponsored by the European Academy of Business in Society and led by London Business School initially, and then by the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre.
Featured in December 2007

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