Energy-Focused Business Education: WDI Launches a New Case Study Contest
12/06/2022
A global energy transition is underway. WDI's latest case writing competition aims to increase the pool of higher education case studies on this topic.
Learn more2023 Case Writing Competitions
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Thank you for your final submissions!
FINAL REVIEWS ARE CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS.
Unilever Ethiopia’s Shakti Initiative: Building a Rural Sales Channel
In 2017, Tim Kleinebenne, managing director of Unilever Ethiopia, and Buks Akinseye, senior global sustainability manager in Unilever’s Rotterdam headquarters, had collaborated to develop and launch a Shakti initiative, creating…
Publication Date: 04/20/2022 Product ID: 2-870-142
$3.95
Tesla's Battery Supply Chain: A Growing Concern
In October 2021, the fictional vice president of supply chain sustainability at Tesla is working on finding the best way to achieve Tesla’s goal of 100% recycling for the batteries…
Publication Date: 04/22/2022 Product ID: 9-884-554
$3.95
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Using Influence Strategies to Promote Gender Equality
This case study focuses on how Ruth Bader Ginsburg (“RBG”)—when she was a professor and attorney early in her career, before becoming an appellate judge and Supreme Court Justice—used influence…
Publication Date: 02/22/2022 Product ID: 7-866-854
$3.95
Transforming a Successful Organization: Societal Changes Challenge the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan
This case is about the transformation of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan (AAUM), one of the major organizations in its field. It begins with the CEO, Steve…
Publication Date: 05/24/2022 Product ID: 5-843-641
$3.95
IKEA's Sustainability Options: Circular Economy, Green Growth, or Degrowth
This case explores the debate over which sustainability philosophy should drive a corporation’s strategy: circular economy, green growth, or degrowth. The case uses IKEA and its enormously successful “fast furniture”…
Publication Date: 05/30/2023 Product ID: 4-495-470
$3.95
Starbucks: Responding to Unionization Efforts
In a little over a year, more than 6,500 workers at over 250 corporate-owned Starbucks stores had voted to unionize with Workers United. The former CEO, Kevin Johnson, retired unexpectedly…
Publication Date: 05/15/2023 Product ID: 2-614-522
$3.95
MinuteGrocer: Estimating Economic Value to the Customer
This case about Economic Value to the Customer (EVC) enables students to deeply analyze the positive and negative differentiation value of a product or service, and how distinct demographic segments…
Publication Date: 05/02/2023 Product ID: 1-640-753
$3.95
Amazon in Emerging Markets
This case leads to a vibrant discussion and comparative analysis of Amazon’s strategies across three major emerging markets. Amazon is known to virtually every student, making an illustration of internationalization…
Publication Date: 08/01/2014 Product ID: 1-429-401
$3.95
LEGO® Products: Building Customer Communities Through Technology
This case takes students through the evolution of LEGO’s business model from a traditional product-centric “make and sell” model to a more customer-centric “anticipate and lead” model in which products…
Publication Date: 09/03/2013 Product ID: 1-429-326
$3.95
Pricing Games: Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox
Economic game theory can be a tedious and difficult concept, but it doesn’t have to be. This exercise allows students to learn about game theory via an entertaining medium –…
Publication Date: 02/07/2011 Product ID: 1-428-882
$3.95