Case Studies

The Dawn Lepore case presents a series of dilemmas that one woman, Dawn Lepore, deals with in her professional career that present her with a series of challenging issues.  The case starts off with ...

The Dawn Lepore case presents a series of dilemmas that one woman, Dawn Lepore, deals with in her professional career that present her with a series of challenging issues.  The case starts off with ...

This case explores the rise and fall of Nebula Inc., a company that industry experts had originally predicted would become the market leader in the hybrid cloud computing market. In its early days, Nebula seemed...

Virsto, a storage virtualization company, was founded in 2007 by Mark Davis, Alex Miroshnichenko, and Serge Pashenkov.  Davis founded Virsto after managing a series of technology startups, many of which were ultimately acquired by big...

This case picks up where “LinkedIn and Modern Recruiting (A)” left off, detailing the company’s innovations in hiring practices, which included its highly effective use of LinkedIn profile and resume data. As part of these...

This 2015 case is about the internal organizational transformation of the Hewlett Packard (HP) Enterprise Group (EG), which brought in $28 billion in annual revenue and had 50,000 employees.  “EG Ignite,” led by a small...

Kim Markey began as executive director of revenue cycle at Huntington Hospital (HH) in November 2012.  Located in Pasadena, California, HH was a 625-bed non-profit regional medical center that was named among the top-performing hospitals...

In 2000, Charles Best, a social studies teacher working in a school in the Bronx, New York, scraped together $2,000 to pay an overseas web designer to build a rudimentary website he had designed using...

This is a role-play case, intended for use in a leadership development course for MBA students. The case has four roles: two for students playing the co-founders of a startup and two for students/coaches playing...