
The Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2019
We're proud to announce our annual case 'Oscars' that shine a light on the impactful achievements of case authors and teachers worldwide.
This year's Awards and Competitions sees a growing diversity of successful institutions from around the globe, indicating that excellence in the case method is no longer the sole domain of a small group of institutions or faculty.
Congratulations to all our winners! We hope you enjoy finding out more about them.
Winners in full
Competition winners
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Vijaya Narapareddy Zinnoury
Daniels College of Business, University of Denver |
David Wood
Ivey Business School |
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President Trump Calling: Accept or Decline? Karthik Ramanna, Vidhya Muthuram and Sarah McAra Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Presentation: 12 June 2019 |
Strategic Actions in Challenging Times
João Silva and José Azevedo-Pereira ISEG Lisbon School of Economics & Management |
Award winners
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Accor: Strengthening the Brand with Digital Marketing
Jill Avery, Harvard Business School Chekitan S Dev, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University Peter O'Connor, ESSEC Business School |
The Acquisition Experiences of KazOil
Dana Minbaeva Copenhagen Business School Maral Muratbekova-Touron ESCP Europe
Presentations: 11 March and 18 September 2019
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Patagonia’s Sustainability Strategy: Don’t Buy Our Products Francisco Szekely and Zahir Dossa IMD business school Presentation: 7 May 2019 |
AB InBev: Brewing an Innovation Strategy
Robert E Siegel and Amadeus Orleans Stanford Graduate School of Business |
Uber and the Ethics of Sharing: Exploring the Societal Promises and Responsibilities of the Sharing Economy
N Craig Smith and Erin McCormick INSEAD |
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Employee Training & Development at Ritz-Carlton: Fostering an Exceptional Customer Service Culture
Debapratim Purkayastha ICFAI Business School (IBS) |
Amazon’s Big Data Strategy
Debapratim Purkayastha and Adapa Srinivasa Rao ICFAI Business School (IBS) |
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Markdown Pricing Optimization at Bloomingdale's (A) and (B)
Wei Ke, Costis Maglaras and Garrett van Ryzin Columbia Business School |
Apple and Its Suppliers: Corporate Social Responsibility
An Ivey Publishing case by Sun Hye Lee and Kamel Mellahi Warwick Business School Michael J Mol Copenhagen Business School |
The 2019 awards will be presented to the winning authors at a series of ceremonies around the world.
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