Case Studies

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.”…

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-…