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Our worldwide award winners share their thoughts on their winning cases. They also discuss a variety of case teaching and writing topics.

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Niccolò Pisani, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)

Niccolò won the Overall Award in 2022 with his case adidas: How to Keep Running Fast in a Post-COVID-19 World?.

Vanina Farber, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)

Vanina won the Outstanding Case Writer Competition in 2022 with her case Angaza: A Silicon Valley Journey.

Shih-Han Huang, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)

Shih-Han won the Outstanding Case Writer Competition in 2022 with her case Angaza: A Silicon Valley Journey.

Ann-Kathrin Leiting, Jana Thiel and Bart Clarysse, ETH Zurich

Ann-Kathrin, Jana and Bart won the Entrepreneurship category in 2022 with their case Developing an Effective Corporate Entrepreneurship System: The Case of the Robert Bosch Group (A).

Karen Harlos, University of Winnipeg; Lucas Monzani and Alison Konrad, Ivey Business School

Karen, Lucas and Alison won the Outstanding Compact Case Competition in 2022 with their case Three Cases on Workplace Mistreatment.

Stefano Turconi, London Business School

Stefano won the Free Case category in 2022 with his case Netflix Goes to Bollywood.

Denis Gromb, HEC Paris

Denis won the Finance, Accounting and Control category in 2022 with his case Private Equity and Infrastructure: Antin’s TowerCo Deal.

Rodolphe Durand, HEC Paris

Rodolphe won the Outstanding New Case Writer Competition in 2022 with his case Purposeful Leadership at Best Buy.

Jitesh Nair and Balaswamy Pasala, ICFAI Business School (IBS)

Jitesh and Balaswamy won the Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour category award in 2022 with their case Microsoft: Building a Collaborative Work Culture to Foster Innovation.

Malay Krishna, S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR)

Malay won the Outstanding Case Writer Competition: Hot Topic trophy in 2022 with his case Zoom Video Communications: Flash in the Pandemic or Enduring Success?.

P Fraser Johnson, Ivey Business School

Fraser won the Production and Operations Management category award in 2022 with his case Apple Inc: Global Supply Chain Management.

Jing Li, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University and Yong Li, Lee Business School, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Jing and Young won the Outstanding Strategy and General Management category award in 2022 with their case Amazon Goes Global 2020.

Anne T Lawrence, Case Research Foundation

Anne won the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method in 2022.

Nuno Fernandes, IESE Business School

Nuno won the Outstanding Case Teacher competition in 2022.

Craig Smith, INSEAD

Craig won the Ethics and Social Responsibility category in 2022 with his case Volkswagen's Emissions Scandal: How Could It Happen?.

Joerg Niessing, INSEAD

Joerg won the Marketing category in 2022 with his case waterdrop ®: Changing the Paradigms of the Beverage Industry with Limited Resources and Digital Marketing.

The Ingredients of an Award-winning Case

What are the ingredients that make an award-winning case? How do you make your case stand out from the crowd?

This free webinar offered a unique opportunity to hear the overall winners of The Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2022, Niccolò Pisani and Ornella Lupoi, talk about their winning case adidas: How to Keep Running Fast in a Post-COVID-19 World?

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Fabien Pecot, TBS Barcelona and Virginie de Barnier, IAE Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management

Fabien and Virginie won the Outstanding New Case Writer Competition in 2021 with their case The Roy René Confectionery Is 100 years: Celebrating Brand Heritage to Sustain a New Strategy.

Jeremy Dann, Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, USC Marshall School of Business

Jeremy won the Outstanding Case Writer Competition: Hot Topic 'UN Sustainable Development Goals' in 2021 with his case Barnana: Adventures in Upcycling.

Matthew Sooy, Lauren Iuliani and W Spencer Ashby, Ivey Business School

Matthew, Lauren and Spencer won the Outstanding Compact Case Competition in 2021 with their case Nora Lang: Pay Equity at FTS.

Patricia Lui and Lipika Bhattacharya, Singapore Management University

Patricia and Lipika won the Outstanding Case Writer Competition in 2021 with their case Kobe Influencer Marketing: Building Brand Awareness via Social Media.

Mats Urde, Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM)

Mats won the Outstanding Case Teacher Competition in 2021.

Ciaran Heavey and Dorota Piaskowska, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

Ciaran and Dorota won the Strategy and General Management category in 2021 with their case Ryanair: Flying too Close to the Sun?.

Steven Sweldens, Stefano Puntoni, and Tao Yue, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and Matthieu Campion, formerly of TomTom

Steven, Stefano, Tao and Matthieu, with co-author Niela Kleinsmith, won the Marketing category in 2021 with their case TomTom: Mapping the Course from B2C to B2B.

Jyotsna Bhatnagar, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, and Shweta Jaiswal Thakur, NTPC School of Business, Noida

Jyotsna and Shweta won the Human Resource Management/Organisational Behaviour category in 2021 with their Ivey Publishing case Amazon as an Employer.

Michael J Schill, University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Michael, with co-author Jenny Craddock, won the Finance, Accounting and Control category in 20121 with their case Ferrari: The 2015 Initial Public Offering.

Jason Davis, INSEAD

Jason, and co-authors Minh Vo and Anne Yang, won the Entrepreneurship category in 2021 with their case TikTok’s AI Strategy: ByteDance’s Global Ambitions.

Felipe Monteiro and José Miguel García Benavente, INSEAD

Felipe and José Miguel won the Ethics and Social Responsibility category in 2021 with their case Enel's Innovability: Global Open Innovation and Sustainability.

Karthik Ramanna, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; Jérôme Lenhardt and Marc Homsy, previously of Harvard Business School

Karthik, Jérôme and Marc won the won the Economics, Politics and Business Environment category in 2021 with their case IKEA in Saudi Arabia (A).

Paul Beamish, Ivey Business School

Paul won the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method in 2021.

The Ingredients of an Award-winning Case

What are the ingredients that make an award-winning case that is used by educators around the world? How do you adapt case teaching for a virtual environment?

This free webinar offered a unique opportunity to hear the overall winners of The Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2021, Jamie Anderson, Karin-Kollenz-Quétard and Nader Tavassoli, talk about their winning case Dollar Shave Club: Disrupting the Shaving Industry.

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Peter O'Connor, ESSEC Business School

Peter won the Overall Award in 2019 with his case Accor: Strengthening the Brand with Digital Marketing.

Francisco Szekely, Institute for Management Development (IMD)

Francisco won the Economics, Politics and Business Environment category award in 2019 with his case Patagonia’s Sustainability Strategy: Don’t Buy Our Products.

Craig Smith, INSEAD

Craig won the Ethics and Social Responsibility category award in 2019 with his case Uber and the Ethics of Sharing: Exploring the Societal Promises and Responsibilities of the Sharing Economy.

David Stowell, Kellogg School of Management

David won the Finance, Accounting and Control category award in 2019 with his case H J Heinz M&A.

Michael Mol, Copenhagen Business School

Michael won the Strategy and General Management category award in 2019 with his case Apple and Its Suppliers: Corporate Social Responsibility.

Sun Hye Lee, Loughborough University

Sun won the Strategy and General Management category award in 2019 with her case Apple and Its Suppliers: Corporate Social Responsibility.

Dana Minbaeva, Copenhagen Business School

Dana won the Free Case category award in 2019 with her case The Acquisition Experiences of KazOil.

Maral Muratbekova-Touron, ESCP Business School

Maral won the Free Case category award in 2019 with her case The Acquisition Experiences of KazOil.

Tao Yue, Rotterdam School of Management Case Development Centre

Tao won the Entrepreneurship category award in 2018 with her case Fairphone: Organising for Sustained Social Impact.

Andreas Rasche, Copenhagen Business School

Andreas won the Ethics and Social Responsibility category award in 2018 with his case Sustainability as Opportunity: Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan.

Joanne Lawrence, Hult International Business School

Joanne won the Ethics and Social Responsibility category award in 2018 with her case Sustainability as Opportunity: Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan.

Denis Gromb, HEC Paris

Denis won the Finance, Accounting and Control category award in 2018 with his case rada’s Hong Kong IPO.

Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD

Gianpiero won the Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour category award in 2018 with his case Tony Hsieh at Zappos: Structure, Culture and Radical Change.

Joerg Niessing and David Dubois, INSEAD

Joerg and David won the Marketing category award in 2018 with their case AccorHotels and the Digital Transformation: Enriching Experiences Through Content Strategies Along the Customer Journey.

Torben Juul Andersen, Copenhagen Business School

Torben won the Free Case category award in 2018 with his case British Petroleum: From Texas City to the Gulf of Mexico and Beyond.

L Felipe Monteiro, INSEAD

Felipe won the Outstanding Case Writer: Hot Topic competition in 2018 with his case The TAG Heuer Carrera Connected Watch: Swiss Avant-Garde for the Digital Age (A) & (B).

Pierre Chandon, INSEAD

Pierre won the Outstanding Case Teacher competition in 2018.

Rasmus Johnsen, Copenhagen Business School

Felipe won the Ethics and Social Responsibility category award in 2017 with his case CULT Girl: Responsible Management and Self-Management of Subjectivity at Work.

David Dubois, INSEAD

David won the Marketing category award in 2017 with his case Ombre, Tie-dye, Splat Hair: Trends or Fads? ‘Pull’ and ‘Push’ Social Media Strategies at L’Oréal Paris.

Horacio Falcão, INSEAD

Horacio won the Human Resource Management/Organisational Behaviour category award in 2017 with his case Oxipouco: An Endangered Species Resource Negotiation (A) & (B).

Jose A. D. Machuca, Universidad de Sevilla

Jose won the Production and Operations Management category award in 2017 with his case Zara: The World’s Largest Fashion Retailer.

Jamie Anderson, Antwerp Management School

Jamie won the Strategy and General Management category award in 2017 with his case Nespresso: What Next?.

Howard Yu, Institute for Management Development (IMD)

Howard won the Outstanding Case Writer Competition: Hot Topic competition in 2017 with his case Recruit Japan: Harnessing Data to Create Value .

Wouter De Maeseneire, Vlerick Business School

Wouter won the Outstanding Case Teacher competition in 2017.

Pierre Chandon, INSEAD

Pierre won the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method award in 2016.

Pierre Chandon, INSEAD

Pierre won the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method award in 2016.

Pierre Chandon, INSEAD, and Haiyang Yang, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Pierre and Haiyang won the Overall Award in 2016 with their case L'Oréal in China: Marketing Strategies for Turning Around Chinese Luxury Cosmetic Brand Yue Sai.

Jeremy Ghez, HEC Paris

Jeremy won the Economics, Politics and Business Environment award in 2016 with his case The Economics of Amazon.

Susan Schneider and Anca Pintilii, GSEM Geneva School of Economics and Management

Susan and Anca won the Ethics and Social Responsibility award in 2015 with their case CSR and the Tobacco Industry: A Contradiction in Terms?.

Bo Becker, Stockholm School of Economics

Bo won the Finance, Accounting and Control award in 2015 with his case Roche’s Acquisition of Genentech.

Johann Füller and Katja Hutter, Innsbruck University School of Management

Johann and Katja won the Production and Operations Management award in 2015 with their case Open Innovation at Siemens .

Steve Muylle and Stijn Viaene, Vlerick Business School

Steve and Stijn won the Outstanding Case Writer: Hot Topic competition in 2015 with their case Hello bank! The Birth of a Mobile Bank.

Laurel Austin, Copenhagen Business School

Laurel won the Outstanding New Case Writer competition in 2015 with her case UCSD: A Cancer Cluster in the Literature Building? (A & B).

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