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Unilever Ethiopia’s Shakti Initiative: Building a Rural Sales Channel
by: Ted London
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…
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Tesla's Battery Supply Chain: A Growing Concern
by: Andrew Hoffman
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…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Using Influence Strategies to Promote Gender Equality
by: Paula J. Caproni, Cindy A. Schipani
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
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Transforming a Successful Organization: Societal Changes Challenge the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan
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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
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Micro-mill or Mass Market? Organizational Crossroads in Costa Rican Coffee Cooperatives
by: Steven Samford
This case describes a group of neighboring small coffee farmers in Costa Rica led informally by Elías Hernández. In August 2021, the group is weighing a decision to remain part…
Publication Date: 06/20/2022 Product ID: 6-199-214
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AT&T and Corporate Political Donations after the Capitol Insurrection
by: Andrew Hoffman
A year of political turmoil, capped by the violent insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, presented new challenges to many corporations, including AT&T. The telecommunications giant’s…
Publication Date: 05/25/2022 Product ID: 9-334-409
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Transforming a Successful Organization: Societal Changes Challenge the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan
by: WDI Publishing
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
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Amazon in Emerging Markets
by: Amy Nguyen-Chyung, Elliot Faulk
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
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LEGO® Products: Building Customer Communities Through Technology
by: M.S. Krishnan
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
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Pricing Games: Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox
by: Valerie Suslow, Francine Lafontaine
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
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Without Stronger Regulation, Firms’ Charitable Giving Ripe for Exploitation, Michigan Ross Experts Find

06/01/2022

Some companies are specific and transparent when it comes to their charity, others vague and opaque. That leaves room for companies to exaggerate or even lie about how much they give to worthy causes.

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WDI Stands with Ukraine

03/01/2022

We at the William Davidson Institute have had the honor of working with many Ukrainians and Ukrainian Institutions throughout our history, including a current program with the Lviv Business School at Ukrainian Catholic University, and we are inspired by their courageous stand against the unprovoked aggression and in defense of a freely elected government and its people.

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In Senegal, Local Case Studies Spark Student Interest

02/23/2022

When leaders at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan and the African Institute of Management (IAM) in Senegal set out to build a supply chain program for local students, they knew they needed to include case studies about that local region in their curriculum.

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Launching the 2022 DEI Global Case Writing Competition

10/28/2021

The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the William Davidson Institute again are partnering to broaden the selection of diversity, equity and inclusion-focused business cases with the second annual DEI Global Case Writing Competition.

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