The Case Centre Award winners

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Production and Operations Management category

The winners of this category are the Production and Operations Management cases that were used in the largest number of organisations across the globe in the preceding calendar year.

Production and Operations Management

The Production and Operations Management category award has been presented since the awards began in 1991.

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About the awards and competitions

The Case Centre Awards and Competitions recognise worldwide excellence in case writing and teaching, and are considered the case community's annual 'Oscars'.

Awards

Our awards have been presented since 1991. We recognise those cases that have been used in the largest number of organisations across the globe in the past year. Cases that have been added to our collection in the past five years are eligible.

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Take part in our competitions and compete with the best case teachers and writers in the world.

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The winners

Click on a case title to view further details and, where available, an educator preview copy.

Note: no award was made in this category in 1996.

2023

IKEA Goes Online: Implications for Its Manufacturing

Kasra Ferdows
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Jan Olhager
Lund University

Reference no. 620-0008-1

2022

Apple Inc: Global Supply Chain Management

P Fraser Johnson
Ivey Business School

Reference no. 9B20D013

2021

Ant Financial (A)

Feng Zhu, Krishna G Palepu, Anthony K Woo and Nancy Hua Dai
Harvard Business School
Ying Zhang
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

Reference no. 9-617-060

2020

Apple and Conflict Minerals: Ethical Sourcing for Sustainability

Debapratim Purkayastha and Adapa Srinivasa Rao
ICFAI Business School (IBS)

Reference no. 615-066-1

2019

Markdown Pricing Optimization at Bloomingdale's (A)

Wei Ke, Costis Maglaras and Garrett van Ryzin
Columbia Business School

Reference no. CCW070203A

2018

Everything Is Connected: A New Era of Sustainability at Li & Fung

Hau L Lee and Sheila Melvin
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Reference no. GS87

2017

Zara: The World's Largest Fashion Retailer

Kasra Ferdows
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Jose A D Machuca
Universidad de Sevilla
Michael Lewis
University of Bath School of Management

Reference no. 615-059-1

2016

Apple Inc: Managing a Global Supply Chain

P Fraser Johnson and Ken Mark
Ivey Business School

Reference no. 9B14D005

2015

Open Innovation at Siemens

Karim R Lakhani, Katja Hutter and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa
Harvard Business School
Johann Füller
Innsbruck University School of Management

Reference no. 9-613-100

2014

Operations Strategy at Galanz

An Ivey Publishing case by
Xiande Zhao
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
Xuejun Xu and Lei Yang
South China University of Technology
Stephen Ng
Hang Seng Management College
Barbara Li
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Reference no. 9B10D005

2013

Zara: Staying Fast and Fresh

Felipe Caro
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Reference no. 612-006-1

2012

Zappos.com: Developing a Supply Chain to Deliver WOW!

Michael Marks, Hau Lee and David Hoyt
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Reference no. GS65

2011

LEGO: Consolidating Distribution (A)

Carlos Cordon, Ralf W Seifert and Edwin Wellian
IMD

Reference no. IMD-6-0315

2010

Ocado: An Alternative Way to Bridge the Last Mile in Grocery Home Delivery?

Ken K Boyer
Broad College of Business, Michigan State University
Mark Frohlich
London Business School

Reference no. 602-057-1

2009

Lufthansa Cargo AG: Capacity Reservation and Dynamic Pricing

Arnd Huchzermeier and Rolf Hellermann
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management

Reference no. 602-029-1

2008

IDEO: Service Design (A)

Manuel Sosa and Ritesh Bhavnani
INSEAD

Reference no. 606-012-1

2007

Managing Product Returns at Hewlett Packard

Luk N Van Wassenhove and Daniel R Guide, Jr
INSEAD

Reference no. 602-039-1

2006

The 'mi adidas' Mass Customization Initiative

Ralf W Seifert
IMD

Reference no. IMD-6-0249

2005

Zara

Kasra Ferdow
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
José A D Machuca
Universidad de Sevilla
Michael Lewis
Warwick Business School

Reference no. 603-002-1