EFMD Case Writing Competition 2016

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The winners of the 2016 EFMD Case Writing Competition have been declared. Once again, the winning entries represent a wide variety of prominent business schools from across the globe, and the standard of entries for 2016 was particularly high.

Category winners

Corporate Social Responsibility

Sponsored by Kedge Business School

Martin Bauer Group: Corporate Social Responsibility with EinDollarBrille
Peter M. Bican and Carsten Guderian
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Reference no. 9B16M027

Entrepreneurship

Sponsored by EM Lyon

Scytl
Luisa Alemany, Eugenia Beito and Lourdes Urriolagoiti
Esade Entrepreneurship Institute, ESADE Business School
Reference no. 816-0037-1

Family Business

Sponsored by Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut

Conflicting Business Approaches of Two Generations: The Otsuka Family Showdown
Debapratim Purkayastha and Ranjana Tiwari
ICFAI Business School
Reference no. 817-0031-1

Finance and Banking

Sponsored by Toulouse Business School, Groupe ESC Toulouse

USB: Acquisition of Commerszbank AG as a Possible Growth Strategy
Phillip Deisler, Michael Eisenlauer and Fahrudin Abazi
Technical University of Munich

Supply Chain Management

Sponsored by Kedge Business School

Adidas Russia/CIS and the Russian Crisis: Retrench or Double Down (A) and (B)
Carlos Cordon, Benoit Leleux and Beverley Lennox
IMD
Reference no. IMD-7-1795 and IMD-7-1796

Emerging Global Chinese Competitors

Sponsored by ChinaCases.org, The Global Platform of China Cases

CNOOC Engages with Canadian Stakeholders
Klaus Meyer and Alexandra Han
China Europe International Business School
Reference no. 9B17M005

Euro-Mediterranean Managerial Practices and Issues

Sponsored by Montpellier Business School

ABB & Galindo: Winning the Peace (A)
ABB & Galindo: Winning the Peace (B)
Daniel Blake, Rocio Bonet and Saul Downie
IE Business School
Reference no. 418-0067-1 and 418-0067-1B

African Business Cases

Sponsored by China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)

Caverton: Hovering into African Markets Through International Strategy
Adeniyi Olarewaju and Sunday Adebisi
University of Lagos

Indian Management Issues and Opportunities

Sponsored by Curtin Business School

Leading the Tata Group (A): The Ratan Tata Years
Leading the Tata Group (B): The Cyrus Mistry Years
J. Ramachandran, K. S. Manikandan and K. Rajyalakshmi
Indian Institute of Managmenet Bangalore and Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli
Reference no. IMB597 and IMB599

Responsible Leadership

Sponsored by the University of San Diego – School of Business Administration

Data Analytics at Alexandra Health System: A New Journey in the Healthcare Industry
Lian Chee Koh, Ma Nang Laik and Zack Wang Zheng
Singapore Management University
Reference no. SMU-16-0026

Inclusive Business Models

Sponsored by IMD

Future for Children: A Social Enterprise Project in Transition
Christopher Dula, Jonathan Chang and Lakshmi Appasamy
Singapore Management University
Reference no. SMU-15-0027

Latin American Business Cases

Sponsored by Universidad Externado de Colombia

The Pacific Alliance: Myth or Reality? Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile
Fernando D’Alessio
Centrum – Pontificia Universidad Catolica Del Peru
Reference no. 218-0075-1

MENA Business Cases

Sponsored by HEC Paris in Qatar

From Old Fashion to a Fast-Fashion Retailing Power-House: How Diamantine Reinvented the Traditional Ready-to-wear Market in Mena Region
Maaroufi Zoulikga
Esca Ecole de Management

Bringing Technology to Market

Sponsored by ESMT

GE China Technology Center: Evolving Role in Global Innovation
Haiyang Li, Rice University
Rebecca Chung, Rebecca Chung Research Translation and Consultancy
Reference no. 9B15M099 

Urban Transition Challenges

Sponsored by Climate-Kic

unu GmbH: Sharing is Caring – a suitable business model for e-scooters in Germany?
Frieder Johann Weidenbach, Franziska Beck and Michael Krauss
Technical University of Munich

Sustainable Production Systems

Sponsored by Climate-Kic

Unilever Production Cluster in Tula: Zero Non-hazardous Waste to Landfill in Ten Months (A) 
Unilever Production Cluster in Tula: Zero Non-hazardous Waste to Landfill in Ten Months (B) 
Andrey Shapenko
Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Reference no. 617-0035-1 and 617-0035-1B

Integrating the Innovation Pipelines

Sponsored by Climate-Kic

BPI Globe Banko: Reshaping the Philippines Rural Banking System
Havovi Joshi, Singapore Management University
Peter Williamson, University of Cambridge Judge Business School
Reference no. SMU-16-0010

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