Who Is Writing, & Who Is Teaching, The Best MBA Cases?

Outstanding Compact Case was a new competition for 2019. The inaugural winner, a cartoon case, from ICFAI Business School, is a first win for this innovative pedagogical format. Courtesy image

CASE AWARDS

Overall Case Award Winner: Accor: Strengthening the Brand with Digital Marketing Jill Avery, Harvard Business School, Chekitan S Dev, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University and Peter O’Connor, ESSEC Business School

Economics, Politics and Business Environment: Patagonia’s Sustainability Strategy: Don’t Buy Our Products Francisco Szekely and Zahir Dossa, IMD business school

Entrepreneurship: AB InBev: Brewing an Innovation Strategy Robert E. Siegel and Amadeus Orleans, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Ethics and Social Responsibility: Uber and the Ethics of Sharing: Exploring the Societal Promises and Responsibilities of the Sharing Economy N Craig Smith and Erin McCormick, INSEAD

Finance, Accounting, and Control: H J Heinz M&A David P Stowell and Nicholas Kawar, Kellogg School of Management

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Human Resource Management/Organizational Behavior: Employee Training & Development at Ritz-Carlton: Fostering an Exceptional Customer Service Culture Debapratim Purkayastha, ICFAI Business School (IBS)

Knowledge, Information, and Communication Systems Management:Amazon’s Big Data Strategy Debapratim Purkayastha and Adapa Srinivasa Rao, ICFAI Business School (IBS)

Marketing: Château Margaux: Launching the Third Wine Elie Ofek and Eric E Vogt, Harvard Business School

Production and Operations Management: Markdown Pricing Optimization at Bloomingdale’s (A) and (B) Wei Ke, Costis Maglaras and Garrett van Ryzin, Columbia Business School

Strategy and General Management: Apple and Its Suppliers: Corporate Social Responsibility An Ivey Publishing case by Sun Hye Lee and Kamel Mellahi, Warwick Business School and Michael J Mol, Copenhagen Business School

Free Case: The Acquisition Experiences of KazOil Dana Minbaeva, Copenhagen Business School and Maral Muratbekova-Touron, ESCP Europe

COMPETITIONS

Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method: Vijaya Narapareddy Zinnoury, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver

Outstanding Case Teacher: David Wood, Ivey Business School

Outstanding Case Writer: President Trump Calling: Accept or Decline? Karthik Ramanna, Vidhya Muthuram and Sarah McAra, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Outstanding New Case Writer: Strategic Actions in Challenging Times João Silva and José Azevedo-Pereira, ISEG Lisbon School of Economics & Management

Outstanding Compact Case: Turbulence on the Tarmac Debapratim Purkayastha and Sid Ghosh, ICFAI Business School (IBS)

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