The case describes how AMF Snaps, a supplier of fastenings for the premium clothes market, has risen to become one of Europe's leading and most innovative snaps companies.

In 2006, the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers patrolling the Lebanese-Israeli border. Israel responded with large-scale bombing of Lebanon’s major bridges, cities, main airports, sea port and all commercial borders. The fighting resulted in approximately one million internally displaced people, 30,000 homes destroyed, over 1,000 dead, and around 5,000 injured.

The case narrates the trigger points that encouraged Roche to make a 15-fold increase in its production capacity of Tamiflu, an antiviral pandemic flu drug recommended by the World Health Organisation as of 2004.

This case describes the trajectory of a group of Norwegian entrepreneurs to develop and commercialize a battery electric vehicle (BEV) called THINK. The business opportunity was for a vehicle intended for eco-oriented niche markets in urban or suburban personal transportation.

The Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho is a landlocked country of approximately 2 million people. Highly dependent on South Africa's economy and trade, in a good year Lesotho is only able to produce 35% of its cereal needs. Approximately 30% of the population is affected by HIV/AIDS.

Global Impact is a US registered non-profit organisation dedicated to 'assuring help for the world's most vulnerable'. Representing more than 50 of the most respected US-based global charities, including CARE, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontiere, and World Vision, it raises funds for its charity members in workplaces across the US and overseas.

The case puts the students in the role of a member of a management team trying to create a strategy map and balanced scorecard, in an attempt to ensure alignment of strategic objectives and how to reach them.

The case describes how a major player in the agricultural chemicals industry struggles to transform a fragmented group of newly-acquired businesses into an integrated supply chain. The case highlights the firm’s operational and organizational problems from the perspective of the European supply chain manager, whose primary objective is to streamline operations and cut costs.

The Tetra Pak aseptic packaging is made of paper, polyethylene and aluminium, which makes recycling difficult. Nonetheless, recycling rates raised from 12% in 2000 to 25% in 2005. Such performance was obtained without any regulations. The product stewardship policy of Tetra Pak made possible the formation of unique entrepreneurial networks.

The case narrates the process of testing the concept of weather derivatives in developing countries. It describes why the World Food Programme chose Ethiopia as the pilot case and the process that led to the selection of AXA Re, the giant insurance company