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2022

Anne Boden at Starling Bank: Disrupting an industry

By Herminia Ibarra, Luisa Alemany, Nick Mickshik, Ken Mark

The case describes the start-up and evolution of UK-based digital bank Starling. Founded in 2014, Starling offered personal and business accounts, and lending products, promising a better customer-service experience, faster approvals and a more digital-friendly approach than traditional banks. By 20...

2024

Flakk Group Case A. Hexagon Purus: Fuelling the future

By Ioannis Ioannou, Nick Mickshik

In May 2018 the Norwegian Government introduced new requirements for emissions-free entry into the Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord fjords, a UNESCO World Heritage site, making them the world’s first zero-emission zones at sea. For Knut Flakk, CEO and owner of Norway’s Flakk Group, it was a water...

2024

Flakk Group Case B: Norwegian Hydrogen

By Ioannis Ioannou, Nick Mickshik

In May 2018 the Norwegian Government introduced new requirements for emissions-free entry into the Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord fjords, a UNESCO World Heritage site, making them the world’s first zero-emission zones at sea. For Knut Flakk, CEO and owner of Norway’s Flakk Group, it was a water...

2023

Lark & Berry: The diamond disruptors

By Ioannis Ioannou, Nick Mickshik

Laura Chavez was delighted beyond words when the Atelier Asymmetric Bow suite, designed by her luxury jewellery company Lark & Berry, won the 2019 Goldsmiths’ Craft and Design Council Graff jewellery award. The Graff Award was the jewellery industry’s equivalent of the Oscars award for Best ...

2025

Oyster becomes a unicorn: fundraising for an impact-driven enterprise

By Luisa Alemany, Nicholas Andreou, Ioannis Ioannou, Nick Mickshik

In April 2022, just two years since launch, global employment platform Oyster announced it had achieved a valuation in excess of $1 billion, giving it unicorn status, after closing a $150 million Series C round. Oyster’s co-founders, Tony Jamous and Jack Mardack, put a social-impact mission fro...

To beat or not to beat the drum for DE&I? Coca-Cola Switzerland and Corporate Political Action

By Aharon Cohen Mohliver, Forrest Briscoe, Marco Clemente, Nick Mickshik

In January 2020 on the eve of a national referendum to pass new laws affording LGBTQIA+ communities formal legal protection against homophobia, Martin Kathriner of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (Coca-Cola HBC), Reyn ffoulkes from The Coca-Cola Company and their teams were weighing up the pros ...

2024

Up in the air: Dubai’s air-taxi service

By Aharon Cohen Mohliver, Nick Mickshik

The case describes the air-taxi industry at the end of 2023 as many companies vied to join the “eVTOL revolution”: in January 2022 the Vertical Flight Society listed 600 designs from nearly 350 companies and innovators worldwide, although only about two dozen of the 600 concepts had made it to t...