15 cases found.
What does it take to build the infrastructure to recycle plastic bottles that is economically viable? The case looks at the economics of the circular economy, focusing on the development of a business case for a beverage producer to create a closed-loop PET bottle recycling facility on the island of Malta.
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Reference 6673
Published 06 Jul 2021
Topic Responsibility
Region Europe
Industry Retail
What does it take to build the infrastructure to recycle plastic bottles that is economically viable? The case looks at the economics of the circular economy, focusing on the development of a business case for a beverage producer to create a closed-loop PET bottle recycling facility on the island of Malta.
On 30 August 2016, Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, ordered Ireland to recover €13 billion in illegal state aid (plus interest) that Ireland was alleged to have granted Apple over a decade from 2003.
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Reference 6664
Published 11 Mar 2021
Topic Economics & Finance
Region Europe
On 30 August 2016, Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, ordered Ireland to recover €13 billion in illegal state aid (plus interest) that Ireland was alleged to have granted Apple over a decade from 2003.
The case describes how a luxury watchmaker asked a French blockchain start-up to provide digital authenticity certificates for its 225 models. Ulysse Nardin, a 175-year-old Swiss watch company owned by Kering, has decided to certify ownership of its watches with Bitcoin-seals technology powered by Woleet, a start-up founded in 2015 by Gilles Cadignan.
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Reference 6647
Published 03 Mar 2021
Region Europe
The case describes how a luxury watchmaker asked a French blockchain start-up to provide digital authenticity certificates for its 225 models. Ulysse Nardin, a 175-year-old Swiss watch company owned by Kering, has decided to certify ownership of its watches with Bitcoin-seals technology powered by Woleet, a start-up founded in 2015 by Gilles Cadignan.
The case guides students to resolve a number of questions when embracing a new technology, with a focus on Blockchain, a radical new technology that has attracted a lot of hype although the adoption rate remains low among firms. Consequently, there are few successful business applications and many challenges, uncertainties and risks to be overcome.
The case emphasizes two aspects of Blockchain.
The case guides students to resolve a number of questions when embracing a new technology, with a focus on Blockchain, a radical new technology that has attracted a lot of hype although the adoption rate remains low among firms. Consequently, there are few successful business applications and many challenges, uncertainties and risks to be overcome.
The case emphasizes two aspects of Blockchain.
The 2015 Paris Agreement, signed by all 195 UN signatory nations, put a global focus on the impending climate emergency, with a mandate to achieve nationally determined commitments (NDCs) to exit fossil fuels and accelerate financing of global sustainability projects.
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Reference 6632
Published 23 Apr 2021
Topic Responsibility
Region Europe
Industry Financial Services, Banking
The 2015 Paris Agreement, signed by all 195 UN signatory nations, put a global focus on the impending climate emergency, with a mandate to achieve nationally determined commitments (NDCs) to exit fossil fuels and accelerate financing of global sustainability projects.
Unilabs offers diagnostic services to hospitals and health systems (B2B) and individual patients (B2C). Portugal, one of Unilabs’ 15 markets, is at the forefront of the company’s efforts to use analytics as part of its transformation to a data-driven organization.
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Reference 6609
Published 18 Mar 2021
Topic Operations
Region Europe
Industry Health, Wellness and Fitness
Unilabs offers diagnostic services to hospitals and health systems (B2B) and individual patients (B2C). Portugal, one of Unilabs’ 15 markets, is at the forefront of the company’s efforts to use analytics as part of its transformation to a data-driven organization.
In 2016, Steve Anavi and Alexandre Prot started Qonto as a ‘challenger’ bank focused on SMEs and freelancers, in France. After achieving rapid success, questions surface about where to draw the bank’s boundaries. The early focus is on the customer interface and back-end operations are outsource, but by 2017 they are wondering whether to bring the core banking infrastructure in house.
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Reference 6580
Published 12 Mar 2021
Topic Strategy
Region Europe
Industry Financial Services, Banking
In 2016, Steve Anavi and Alexandre Prot started Qonto as a ‘challenger’ bank focused on SMEs and freelancers, in France. After achieving rapid success, questions surface about where to draw the bank’s boundaries. The early focus is on the customer interface and back-end operations are outsource, but by 2017 they are wondering whether to bring the core banking infrastructure in house.
Nestor is a foodtech startup that takes a novel approach – radical menu simplification – to enable streamlined operations. Its approach is placed in the context of a rapidly developing food-delivery sector in Paris, France, comprising local start-ups as well as international players/platform providers.
Nestor is a foodtech startup that takes a novel approach – radical menu simplification – to enable streamlined operations. Its approach is placed in the context of a rapidly developing food-delivery sector in Paris, France, comprising local start-ups as well as international players/platform providers.
QuiToque is a foodtech start-up that delivers baskets filled with meal ingredients, aiming to serve and develop a growing market segment. QuiToque’s approach is placed in the broader context of rapidly evolving food preparation and meal delivery sectors in France, which comprise start-ups pursuing alternative approaches that may disrupt established players.
QuiToque is a foodtech start-up that delivers baskets filled with meal ingredients, aiming to serve and develop a growing market segment. QuiToque’s approach is placed in the broader context of rapidly evolving food preparation and meal delivery sectors in France, which comprise start-ups pursuing alternative approaches that may disrupt established players.
nam.R, a data-driven start-up based in Paris, embarked on an ambitious plan to contribute to address global warming using open data. From its launch in 2017, using open-data sources augmented by sophisticated data analytics, nam.R has constructed a “digital twin” of every single building in France by early 2020.
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Reference 6555
Published 11 Feb 2021
Topic Strategy
Region Europe
Industry Information Technology and Services
nam.R, a data-driven start-up based in Paris, embarked on an ambitious plan to contribute to address global warming using open data. From its launch in 2017, using open-data sources augmented by sophisticated data analytics, nam.R has constructed a “digital twin” of every single building in France by early 2020.
In June 2017, Barry Callebaut, the largest B2B cocoa and chocolate company in the world renewed its revolving credit facility (RCF) introducing a novel feature suggested by the Dutch bank ING: the margin on the RCF would be tied to the company’s ESG score from Sustainalytics, a leading sustainability agency, as a way to “make sustainability truly pay”.
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Reference 6539
Published 13 Oct 2020
Topic Economics & Finance
Region Europe
In June 2017, Barry Callebaut, the largest B2B cocoa and chocolate company in the world renewed its revolving credit facility (RCF) introducing a novel feature suggested by the Dutch bank ING: the margin on the RCF would be tied to the company’s ESG score from Sustainalytics, a leading sustainability agency, as a way to “make sustainability truly pay”.
Tom Hermans, CEO of EMMA Safety Footwear, is excited about the idea of developing the world’s first circular safety shoe – one that adheres to the cradle-to-cradle design principles. This could be a transformational strategy, differentiating EMMA from the crowded safety shoe market in Europe and extending a long tradition of social responsibility since its establishment in 1931.
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Reference 6501
Published 09 Mar 2021
Topic Responsibility
Region Europe
Tom Hermans, CEO of EMMA Safety Footwear, is excited about the idea of developing the world’s first circular safety shoe – one that adheres to the cradle-to-cradle design principles. This could be a transformational strategy, differentiating EMMA from the crowded safety shoe market in Europe and extending a long tradition of social responsibility since its establishment in 1931.