Case Center Overview

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Most Recent Cases

1. We Will Be the Best-Run Business in America
2. The Hershey Company: Aligning Inside to Win on the Outside
3. Putting Social Media to Work at Cognizant
4. Why Walmart Is Like a Forest
5. MITRE Corporation: Using Social Technologies to Get Connected
6. Talent Is a Strategic Asset: A Virtual Roundtable
7. Blank Checks: Unleashing the Potential of People and Businesses
8. How Ikea Reassembled Its Growth Strategy
9. The Case for the Brand Ideal
10. BP and Public Issues (Mis)Management

Most Popular Cases

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1. Why Walmart Is Like a Forest
2. The Hershey Company: Aligning Inside to Win on the Outside

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1. Marks and Spencer and Zara: Process Competition in the Textile Apparel Industry
2. What Went Wrong at Cisco
3. Launching New Coke
4. Redesigning Nissan (A): Carlos Ghosn Takes Charge, Redesigning Nissan (B): Leading Change, Nissan's U-Turn: 1999-2001
5. Ducati Motorcycle (Italy): Riding Traditional Business Channels or Racing through the Internet
6. How General Motors Lost Market Focus - And Its Way
7. The House that Branson Built: Virgin's Entry Into the New Millennium
8. Banyan Tree Resorts & Hotels: Building an International Brand from an Asian Base
9. Oh, the Games Enron Played
10. Diesel for Successful Living: Branding Strategies for an Up-market Line Extension in the Fashion Industry

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1. Accounting [1 entry]
2. Best Practices [2 entries]
3. Case Related [1 entry]
4. Change Management [16 entries]
5. Corporate Governance [3 entries]
6. Customer-Related [5 entries]
7. Economics [2 entries]
8. Entrepreneurship [13 entries]
9. Ethics [1 entry]
10. Finance [11 entries]
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14. Innovation [2 entries]
15. International [31 entries]
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18. International - Asia [11 entries]
19. International - China [1 entry]
20. International - Europe [4 entries]
21. IT / Internet / E-Business [20 entries]
22. Knowledge Management [6 entries]
23. Legal [1 entry]
24. Management [18 entries]
25. Marketing / Sales [33 entries]
26. MBA Related [1 entry]
27. Miscellaneous [4 entries]
28. Nonprofit [4 entries]
29. Operations [19 entries]
30. Organizational Behavior [21 entries]
31. People [2 entries]
32. Personal Improvement [1 entry]
33. Public Relations [1 entry]
34. Social Responsibility [8 entries]
35. Strategy [31 entries]
36. Trade [1 entry]

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1. Aerospace & Defense [1 entry]
2. Agriculture [3 entries]
3. Airlines [6 entries]
4. Apparel [3 entries]
5. Automotive [15 entries]
6. Biotechnology [1 entry]
7. Construction [1 entry]
8. Consumer Electronics [1 entry]
9. Consumer Products [5 entries]
10. Education / Training [1 entry]
11. Entertainment/Media [1 entry]
12. Finance / Banking [10 entries]
13. Food Products/Service [15 entries]
14. Gambling [1 entry]
15. Grocery [1 entry]
16. Healthcare [1 entry]
17. Information Technology [2 entries]
18. Insurance [2 entries]
19. Investment Banking [3 entries]
20. Manufacturing [2 entries]
21. Music [2 entries]
22. Non-Profit [4 entries]
23. Other [5 entries]
24. Personal Computer [6 entries]
25. Petro / Chemical [7 entries]
26. Pharmaceutical [6 entries]
27. Publishing [2 entries]
28. Retail [12 entries]
29. Semiconductor [1 entry]
30. Software [7 entries]
31. Telecommunications [11 entries]
32. Transportation [3 entries]
33. Utilities [3 entries]
34. Wine / Spirits [1 entry]

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Adidas Adobe Systems ADP-GSI Ahlstrom Korea Airpork Alcatel Alibaba.com AmBev Amtrak ARM Holdings Plc Asiaweek Banyan Tree Resorts & Hotels BASF Biogen BIS Banking Systems Bombardier and Alstom Booz-Allen & Hamilton Boys & Girls Club of America (BGCA) BP BP-MOBIL Cadbury Schweppes Capital One Cargill CargoExchange.Net Pte Ltd Caterpillar Inc. Celpay Cemex Changmai Corp. ChateauOnline CINCO Cirque de Soleil Cisco Cisco Systems Coach Coca Cola Coca-Cola Codan Gummi A/S Cognizant Conoco Corning Corning Inc. CP Group Curves DBS Dell Delphi Corporation Devon Energy Diesel disguised company names Dow Corning Ducati Motorcycle easyGroup Egg Emerson Electric Emirates Airline Enron Eskom

FedEx, Kinko’s First Direct First Tennesee National Flextronics Fuji Xerox gatetrade.net General Electric (GE) General Motors Gillette Great Eastern Toys GTE Guangdong Electronics Guangdong Galanz Harrah's Entertainment HealthSouth Herman Miller Hershey’s Hewlett Packard (HP) Home Depot Honda HP, Compaq I.B.M. and Lotus IBM Ikea iMotors Industrial Light and Magic Intel Interbrew International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent J. P. Morgan Chase Kraft Kraft Foods Inc. Krispy Kreme Lego Group Lernout & Hauspie Lippo Group of Indonesia and Hong Kong Log On America Lufthansa Manulife Marks and Spencer McDowell's Microsoft Microsoft, Sendit MidwayUSA MobilCom AG mondus.com Monsanto National Basketball Association (NBA) Nike Nissan Novell NTT DoCoMo Parfums Cacharel de L’Oréal Parmalat Procter & Gamble Procter & Gamble (P&G) Procter & Gamble (P&G) Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (D/A/CH) Procter and Gamble

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