Search Results

A123 Systems successfully went to market with new technologies that had the potential to revolutionize both the energy storage and electric battery industries. After opening the largest hybrid vehicle battery…

Marc’s father has entrusted him with the care of the family’s contract growing poultry business. Business was good for the first few years but for the past six growing seasons…

Jenny Perez created Active Microtechnology Solutions to serve as a b2b solution to provide repair and restoration services for computer equipment that would otherwise be discarded. Having established a reliable…

In November 2021, Activision Blizzard, Inc., the California-based maker of popular videogames such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, faced several challenges. The challenges stemmed from a lawsuit…

This case explores management’s challenge of how to best use a $10 million contribution to make the greatest impact for the poor. Acumen Fund is global philanthropic venture capital fund…

1st Place Winner – 2014 NextBillion Case Writing Competition. Daniel Uphaus—founder and CEO of African Solar Rise (ASR), a German NGO providing solar energy solutions in Tanzania—is faced with the…

GreenActivator was the first turf-enhancing product to bring a sustainable approach to maintaining and managing the vast golf course greens across the United States that were drawing increased scrutiny for…

The race to lightweighting is well underway with the introduction of the aluminum body Ford F150. Raj Reddy, vice president of strategy for global rolled products at Alcoa, one of…

The race to lightweighting is well underway with the introduction of the aluminum body Ford F150. Raj Reddy, vice president of strategy for global rolled products at Alcoa, one of…

The president and CEO of Alexander & Thurston has expressed the opinion that there is too much spare-parts inventory in the system. He believes that, through better inventory management, inventory…