Gloria Chie Lee, Shadman Uddin
2023
The case study “The AI Academy: Leveraging Education in AI to Unlock Tajikistan’s Economic Potential” revolves around Azizjon Azimi, a visionary social entrepreneur committed to transforming Tajikistan’s economic landscape through education in artificial…
Jennifer Aaker, Lucy Montgomery
2023
The threats that are prevalent in today’s environment often seem unconquerable. Increasing disruption, increasing rates of stress and burnout in high-pressure jobs, and decreasing trust of institutions can lead to an environment that does not feel safe or…
Gloria Chie Lee, Joey Gutierrez
2023
New Leaders, a U.S.-based not-for-profit 501c3 organization founded in 2000 that provides leadership training for K12 school principals, along with programs for teacher leaders and principal supervisors. By the time of the case, they had served over 8000…
Ken Shotts, Sheila Melvin
2023
This case is intended for use in a business ethics course. In 2022, Indonesia was one of the world’s largest coal producers and exporters. Its use of coal-fired power plants contributed to its position as the world’s ninth largest emitter of CO2 in 2021…
Peter Kelly, Sara Heston, Andrew Freiman
2023
This study examines the executive hiring and termination decisions of 40 search fund CEOs during their first two years post-acquisition. CEOs from various industry sectors and return profiles were surveyed in April 2023.
Drake Pooley, Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas, Connor Diemand-Yauman
2023
How do you bring humor to one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious management firms? Is humor professional? Can humor become a company’s strength? As McKinsey & Company found out, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’.
This case explores how a comedy…
Stefan J Reichelstein, Teresa J Landaverde Lorenzo, Patrick Liebmann, Rebecca Meier, Margot K Sutherland
2023
In January 2023, Carolyn Lukaso, CO2 strategist at Heidelberg Materials (HM), formerly HeidelbergCement, considered the challenge of delivering on the emissions target set by the management board: the reduction of CO2 emissions to 400 kg CO2/ton of…
Gloria Chie Lee, Imogen Mansfield, Daniel Uribe Villa
2022
Eleva Educação is a Brazilian education company that owns and operates private K-12 schools and sells curriculum tools. As of 2020, they directly serve 84,000 students in a high-performing network of 114 affordable private schools in seven states across…
Ken Shotts, Sheila Melvin
2022
By 2022, Meta was the world’s largest social media company, with around 3 billion users sharing 140 billion messages and a billion stories a day. Over 200 million businesses used Meta apps like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Meta’s primary source of…
Peter Kelly, Sara Heston
2022
The 2022 Search Fund Study reports on the financial returns and key qualities of search funds formed in the United States and Canada since 1984. This report updates the previous 2020 study with data through December 31, 2021.
Paul Brest, David Hoyt, Katherine Giordano
2021
Homelessness poses many challenges for young people, including risk of victimization, physical abuse, criminal justice involvement, illness, suicide, dropping out of school, mental health problems, and substance abuse, with long-term consequences for the…
Maureen McNichols, Jaclyn Foroughi
2021
In May 2020, as the global pandemic intensified, school doors remained closed, and protests around the world ignited in response to the killing of George Floyd, the team at Reach Capital (“Reach”) found itself at a critical juncture. On the one hand, the…
Ken Shotts, Sheila Melvin
2021
The effort to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 was underway in January 2020, months before the world would experience the full impact of the virus. By the end of April 2020, worldwide cases had passed 3 million, including 1 million cases in the United…
Kim Starkey, Sheila Melvin
2021
CAMFED, or Campaign for Female Education, began in 1993 by supporting 32 children in two schools; as of 2021, it had helped more than a million girls in sub-Saharan Africa “to access school, succeed, and become leaders of change in their communities.”…
Imogen Mansfield, Jennifer Aaker, Connor Diemand-Yauman, Naomi Bagdonas
2021
The case describes Entertainment Studios CEO and founder Byron Allen’s journey from stand up comedian to start up founder, as he inserts humor and levity into typically serious business situations.
Oriekose Idah, Connor Diemand-Yauman, Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas
2021
Terry Crews is a well known comedic actor and effectively uses humor to uplift others. His comedic ethos centers on risk taking - being willing to try different jokes or character styles without the fear of failure. Crews was not always unembarrassable…
Jennifer Aaker, Fei Fei Li, Pecvin Pui Wan Yong, Matthew Cruickshank, Thomas Higginbotham, Zoe Weinberg, Wendy De La Rosa
2020
Could artificial intelligence become a tool to help resolve political discord in an increasingly polarized world? This case draws on research that looks at Hong Kong’s 2019 unrest, when a controversial extradition proposal split the community into pro-…
Anupriya Dwivedi, Jennifer Aaker
2020
When is humor in the workplace appropriate — and what does a little levity add to the collaborative process? Ample research has documented how and when employers and fellow employees appreciate jokes, pranks, and humorous “water cooler” discussions. This…
Cooper Raterink, Daniel Kharitinov, Zoe Weinberg, Jennifer Aaker
2020
2012 was dubbed the “Year of the MOOC” (Massive Open Online Course), but this mode of online learning has not really caught on. Why not? Student surveys show that these online learning platforms seem to be lacking in community, support, and academic…
Graham Weaver, Meredith Colton Hazy, Dominic Mirabile
2020
This case details challenges Adeyemi Ajao faced in his career as a founder of three companies: Tuenti, a social media company in Spain, Identified, a data analytics company for recruiters, and Base10 Partners, a venture capital firm. At Tuenti, Ajao…
Ken Shotts, Sheila Melvin
2020
Between 1999 and 2017, almost 400,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose. An average of 130 died each day in 2017, six times the daily rate in 1999. These deaths were caused by both prescription opioids and illegal opioids like heroin and illicitly…
Jennifer Aaker, Fei Fei Li, Thomas Higginbotham, Zoe Weinberg, Wendy De La Rosa
2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to drive humanity towards a better future for all. But it also comes with risks and challenges. At its best, AI will boost global economic prosperity, stimulate job growth through innovation, and augment…
Jennifer Aaker, Katie Solomon, Thomas Higginbotham, Zoe Weinberg
2020
Compassion drives human beings to a deeper understanding of one another through perspective-taking and empathy. It is a fundamental is a tool for human connection but it seldom comes into conversation with artificial intelligence. This case explores how…
Jennifer Aaker, Fei Fei Li, Thomas Higginbotham, Zoe Weinberg, Wendy De La Rosa
2020
Algorithms improve our daily lives by filtering spam emails and curating our social media feeds, but they’re also used to recommend prison sentences, identify top job candidates, or guide autonomous vehicles. With each application, the risk of…