Michael Olenick

The case describes how the Danish company Zirq Solutions, a subsidiary of Norwegian NG Group, brought circular economy thinking to the pharmaceutical industry.

Published 05 Mar 2024

Reference 6834

Topic Responsibility

Industry Pharmaceuticals Renewables & Environment

Region Europe

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Over her career as a business executive, Norwegian Anita Krohn Traaseth became a seasoned mentor for emerging professionals, guiding them through the complexities of navigating promotions, salary negotiations, and leadership development.

Published 08 Aug 2023

Reference 6823

Topic Strategy

Industry Textiles

Region Europe

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How to implement blue ocean strategy? What are the organizational and management risks and how can a leader attenuate those risks to build execution into strategy successfully?

Published 24 May 2023

Reference 6817

Topic Strategy

Region Global

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From nearly bankrupt to a franchised chain of 150+ clinics and growing, PetWellClinic: Shifting from a Red to a Blue Ocean shows the use of blue ocean strategy to redraw industry boundaries and create a remarkably successful business. Dr. Sam Meisler, DVM, MBA, found himself struggling in a red ocean of the veterinary care industry. Stressed out and nearly bankrupt, Dr.

Published 24 Feb 2023

Reference 6794

Topic Strategy

Region North America

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In October 2021, Facebook changed the parent corporation name to Meta and announced plans to build a metaverse, a 3D virtual world for work and fun. This case explores whether Meta’s metaverse is likely to be a blue ocean utopia for people and society at large or some form of dystopia.

Published 19 Jan 2022

Reference 6728

Topic Strategy

Industry Internet Online Media

Region Global

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The case helps participants explore and understand the difference between value innovation, the creation of a leap in value, and technology innovation, the creation of breakthrough technology. It teaches students to identify value innovation offerings, how value innovation differs from technology innovation and their commercial consequences.

Published 04 Feb 2021

Reference 6643

Topic Strategy

Region North America

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The notion that innovation is tied to creative destruction is embedded in the psyche of innovators and entrepreneurs, which is why individuals and companies instinctively focus on disruption in pursuit of innovation and growth. But is disruption the only way to innovate and create new markets? And is it the best way?

Published 15 Jan 2021

Reference 6634

Topic Strategy

Industry Computer Games Computer Software Entertainment

Region Global

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In the year 2000, only 2% of women in India used menstrual hygiene products. Almost a quarter-billion relied on cloth rags and many rural women were banished to a hut during their monthly cycle. In these unsanitary conditions, 62.4% had experienced at least one reproductive tract infection, with the result that teenage hysterectomies were not uncommon.

Published 29 Nov 2019

Reference 6521

Topic Strategy

Industry Consumer Goods Health, Wellness and Fitness

Region Asia

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The Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), the Private University of Bolivia, was founded in 1993. Not long after, in the late 1990s, civil unrest erupted with coca growers battling police in the streets outside the campus. Students and faculty fled, the prior President retired, and the University was functionally insolvent.

Published 22 May 2019

Reference 6460

Topic Strategy

Industry Education Management

Region South America

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The Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), the Private University of Bolivia, was founded in 1993. Not long after, in the late 1990s, civil unrest erupted with coca growers battling police in the streets outside the campus. Students and faculty fled, the prior President retired, and the University was functionally insolvent.

Published 22 May 2019

Reference 6460

Topic Strategy

Industry Education Management

Region South America

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