2020
First place
EcoAlf: Because there is No Planet B
Benoit Leleux and Thomas Brochier
Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Reference no. IMD-7-2073
Second place
AXA: Claiming the Future of Insurance
Amit Joshi and Ivy Buche
Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Reference no. IMD-7-2128
Third place
GameStop: A New Lease on Life, or Game Over?
Marc Low
2019
First place
TransferWise: Sustainable Disruptor in the Remittance Services Industry?
Arpita Agnihotri and Saurabh Bhattacharya
Second place
Beekeeper: From Pivoting Start-up to Disrupting Scale-up
Benoit Leleux and Marc Chauvet
Institute for Management Development (IMD)
Reference no. IMD-7-2027
Third place
Disney Enters Streaming Space: Can it Disrupt the Disruptor?
Syeda Maseeha and Debapratim Purkayastha
IBS Center for Management Research
Reference no. 919-0004-1
Short case winner
“Port to Plate" Distribution System – Will Pesky Fish’s Supply Chain Model Sustain growth?
Indu Perepu and KBS Kumar
2018
First place
John Lewis Partnership and Brexit or Not – What now?
Frank Shipper and Richard Hoffman
Second place
Walmart's e-Commerce Acquisition Spree: Toward Online Success or Existential Crisis?
Syeda Tahera Sadia and Indu Perepu
IBS Center for Management Research
Third place
PromenAid Handrail: Managing Growth
Christopher A. Ross
Ivey Business School
Short case winner
Charlebois Family Investments Inc.
Pierre Brunet and Jean Beland
$1000 prize winners
Birchbox
Alok Kavthankar and Indu Perepu
IBS Center for Management Research
Reference no. 318-0069-1
Growing Pains: Mahindra First Choice 2017
Ivy Buche, Charles Dhanaraj and Thomas Malnight
IMD
Reference no. IMD-7-1926
TWIN Engineers Private Limited
Jyoti Kainth and Gautam Kainth
2017
First place
Prabhat Dairy: The Crossover Challenge in the Indian Market
Ramachandran Subramanian
Second place
Will LinkedIn Learning Disrupt the Education Landscape?
Maxim Kolesnik, Mario Perez and Dominik Reinhard
IMD
Reference no. IMD-7-1843
Third place
Bradley Tilden’s Dilemma Following the Alaska Airlines Merger
Debapratim Purkayastha and Syeda Maseeha
IBS Center for Management Research
Reference no. 317-0097-1
Short case winner
Uber in South Africa: A Bumpy Ride
Natasha Mwila
$1000 prize winners
Sonae SR’s International expansion
Alana Baker
Is the Apple Watch Killing the Swiss Watch Industry?
Chantal Staeuble, Lars Bloechingler and Kristian Uwe Curkovic
IMD
Reference no. IMD-7-1844
The Dollar Shave Club: Can the Unilever Deal Add Sheen?
M Vasudha
Amity Research Centers
Reference no. 317-0110-1
2016
First place
Nestle SA: The Nescafe Plan in China
Ramasastry Chandrasekhar and Robert Klassen
Western University
Reference no. 9B15D013
Second place
The Turnaround Plan of McDonald’s: A Long Way to Go
Indu Perepu
IBS Center for Management Research
Reference no. 216-0022-1
Third place
Eltherm: Glowing Red-Hot in the Concentrated Solar Power Heat-Tracing Market
Marc Low and Brigitta Annegarn
Short case winner
Maggi Noodles in India: The Revival Challenge
Alok Rama Kavthankar and Indu Perepu
IBS Center for Management Research
Reference no. 216-0058-1
$1000 prize winners
Uniqlo: A Supply Chain Going Global
Benjamin Yen
School of Business, The University of Hong Kong
Reference no. 316-0314-1
Mahindra Finance: Accelerating Growth
Charles Dhanaraj, Thomas Malnight and Ivy Buche
IMD
Reference no. IMD-7-1700
Etsy: A ‘B Corp’ Start-up Takes on Amazon
Ram Subramanian
Ivey Publishing
Reference no. 9B16M074
2015
First place
MarcoPolo: The Quest for Global Leadership
Charles Dhanaraj, Fernanda Ribeiro and Eva Stal
IMD
Reference no. IMD-7-1606
Second place
Brunet Vise Juste
Harold Boeck, Cédric Degallaix and Catherine Choquette
Third place
Warby Parker: One-for-One Model in Eyewear
Vasudha M
Amity Research Centre
Reference no. 715-006-1
$1000 prize winners
Ricoh Canada Inc
Prescott C. Ensign and Jonathan Fast
Wilfrid Laurier University
Reference no. A09-15-0006
Paris Saint Germain
Ronald Kamin and Thierry Delécolle
Reconfiguring the Supply Chain at Xtra Power Energy Systems
Rik Paul, Debapratim Purkayastha and Jigyasu Gaur
IBS Center for Management Research
Reference no. 615-022-1
2014
First place
Deloitte: Stormy Seas or Smooth Sailing Ahead?
Marc Low
University of Minnesota
Second place
Metro: my Canadian eGrocer?
Karine Menard, Émilie Marinier, Lucas Perrotte, and Harold Boeck
University of South Carolina
Third place
Sodastream Takes on Coke and Pepsi
Ram Subramanian
Ivey Publishing
Reference no. 9B14M038
$1000 prize winners
GREENoneTEC: Fierce Competition Under the Sun
Dietmar Sternad
Ivey Publishing
Reference no. 9B14M072
Sony Corporation - Is the Sum Greater Than the Parts?
Andrew Inkpen
Western University
Reference no. A07-14-0002
Henkel’s Journey to Purchasing Excellence: Escape from an Averse Sourcing Situation
Lutz Kaufmann, Sotiris Politis and Gavin Meschnig
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Reference no. 614-006-1
