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Clusterland Upper Austria
Berrone, Pascual; Blázquez, María LuisaCase SM-1590-EDecision Analysis, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThis case describes the origins and functioning of Clusterland Upper Austria, a company created by the regional government of Upper Austria to manage a group of clusters and networks already existing in the region. The organization has been regarded as a best practice example for managing cluster projects. The case examines the specific nature of the region in terms of industrial structure and government policy and its implication in cluster dev...Starting at €8.20
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Social Investment in Supply Chains: Mining the Possibilities
Mani, Vidya; Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-OM-1780-EService and Operations ManagementTintio SA (Tintio), a Peru-based mining company, planned to open a gold mine in Ica, the southern region of Peru. But like other mining companies, Tintio often had rocky relationships with the communities in which it operated. Tintio had tried to improve its practices and relationships over the years, but in 2021, it still experienced pushback from assorted stakeholders. Company leadership needed to decide how best to compensate and benefit the l...Starting at €8.20
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Sustainabilitiy at Nespresso. A boost for business
Reina Paniagua, R.; García de Castro, A.; Garrido Martinez, E.Case IIST-DGI-351-E-ECorporate GovernanceNespresso has managed to make sustainability its own. Sustainability has managed to be incorporated into the business model, as one more part. This premise is what has allowed the issue of sustainability to be one more pillar in Nespresso's strategy. Ecolaboración is its way of approaching comprehensive management to achieve a sustainable future for all, and the concept that helps each of its operations to be under that prism. The goal: to manufa...Starting at €8.20
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Sustainability at Ingka Group (IKEA): Breaking paradigms down
Reina Paniagua, R.; García de Castro, A.; Garrido Martinez, E.Case IIST-DGI-348-E-ECorporate GovernanceIKEA was undertaking the most significant overhaul in its history under the principles of becoming more affordable, accessible, and sustainable. One of Ingka Group’s main challenges in creating value was how to be omnichannel, i.e., how to create a business model that, on the one hand, optimized the company’s existing assets and, on the other, made it possible to develop new channels. However, the greatest challenge was climate change. IKEA had c...Starting at €8.20
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Gwen Berry and the Politics of Protest (A)
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0479-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn the summer of 2019, notable track and field athlete Gwen Berry was representing Team USA at the Pan American Games in Peru when, having won the hammer throw—her specialty—she stood anxiously on the podium for the medal ceremony as the United States national anthem began to play. As she thought about both her own challenging upbringing and the social and racial injustice in the United States, exemplified by a recent encounter she’d had with a s...Starting at €8.20
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Gwen Berry and the Politics of Protest (B)
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0480Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis case is a follow-up to "Gwen Berry and the Politics of Protest (A)" (UVA-E-0479). Gwen Berry did protest at the Pan American Games in the summer of 2019 by raising her fist in the air when the US national anthem was playing. Pushback by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the public was swift and fierce. Berry, along with US fencing team member Race Imboden, who also protested, was put on problem for a year and immediately lost th...Starting at €5.74
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OpenAI y el mercado de los grandes modelos de lenguaje
Samila, Sampsa; Berrone, PascualCase SM-1742Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and Change, StrategyEl caso se centra en Sam Altman, el CEO de OpenAI, y las trascendentales decisiones que debía tomar con respecto al rumbo de la empresa en un mercado, el de los grandes modelos de lenguaje (LLM), que crecía rápidamente. Gracias al éxito del GPT-4, OpenAI se había convertido en un actor prominente del sector, y Altman tenía que elaborar una estrategia integral con la que mantener la posición de la empresa y, al mismo tiempo, sortear los complejos ...Starting at €8.20
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Aertec Solutions: la reacción ante la crisis del Covid-19 - Teaching note
García de Castro, A.; Martínez Jiménez, M.Teaching Note IIST-DGITN-330-331-E-EInnovation and ChangeSix months after the start of the pandemic, Aertec, a Spanish company in the aeronautical sector, closes its fiscal year in August 2020 with a drop in turnover of €3.5 million compared to the previous year and with red numbers. The environment had changed drastically, the upward curve forecast by the experts for the next 10 years, with a forecast volume of 22,000 aircraft and whose reduction was between 50 and 70%, with the consequent implication...Starting at €0.00
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Morgan Wallen: Tough Decisions at the William Morris Endeavor Agency (A)
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Clark-Hamel, Skyler; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0494-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityJay Williams, cohead of the Nashville office of the William Morris Endeavor (WME), must decide how to respond to an incident involving Morgan Wallen, one of the talent agency’s fastest-rising country music stars. Wallen, a white singer, was caught on home security footage using an ethnic slur with a group of white friends after a night of drinking. The following day, the footage was released to the public, and Wallen was swiftly disavowed by his ...Starting at €8.20
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Morgan Wallen: Tough Decisions at the William Morris Endeavor Agency (C)
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Clark-Hamel, Skyler; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0496-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityJay Williams, cohead of the Nashville office of the William Morris Endeavor (WME), must decide how to respond to an incident involving Morgan Wallen, one of the talent agency’s fastest-rising country music stars. Wallen, a white singer, was caught on home security footage using an ethnic slur with a group of white friends after a night of drinking. The following day, the footage was released to the public, and Wallen was swiftly disavowed by his ...Starting at €5.74