United Kingdom
March 2020
Ros Atkins and the 50:50 Project at the BBC (B)
By Aneeta Rattan, Oriane Georgeac, Siri Chilazi
Ros Atkins, the presenter of the BBC’s nightly primetime news programme Outside Source, had a distinguished and successful career at the BBC. Despite his successes as a journalist and presenter, however, he knew he was…
March 2020
Ros Atkins and the 50:50 Project at the BBC (A)
By Aneeta Rattan, Oriane Georgeac, Siri Chilazi
Ros Atkins, the presenter of the BBC’s nightly primetime news programme Outside Source, had a distinguished and successful career at the BBC. Despite his successes as a journalist and presenter, however, he knew he was…
August 2016
ONk: Dining at the Funding Buffet
By Gary Dushnitsky
The idea for ONk originated in 2012 when six-year-old Mike asked his father, Sam Ke, one night, “Can we make a computer that is simple and fun?” Soon afterwards, a team of three – Alex…
February 2013
Eight19 (A): A Social Enterprise?
By Jeff Skinner, Tom Ryan
Eight19 is a technology-based start-up company based on Cambridge Science Park. The company is developing a new (and very low cost) solar-panel technology aimed primarily at domestic use in developing countries. The case describes the…
November 2018
Patch: Financing the Entrepreneurial Business
By Gary Dushnitsky
Heading into Old Street Tube station in London on a chilly January day, Freddie’s mind was racing with ideas. He had just come out from another meeting with Forward Partners, a well-known, London-based venture capital…
April 2019
Clarasys: Born Agile by Taking Groups Seriously
By Randall Peterson
In March 2015, London-based management consultancy Clarasys found itself in crisis. Established in 2011, the company had experienced consistent growth since foundation and had expanded staffing levels to service new business accordingly. But it…
July 2010
Turnaround at UCLH: A hospital in intensive care case (D)
By Anita Devlin, Cheerag Shirodaria, Michael Jacobides, Renate Verheul
University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is a major London teaching hospital. It encountered serious financial problems as a result of the consolidation of two separate hospitals into one new hospital building, coupled…
January 2010
Turnaround at UCLH: A hospital in intensive care case (C)
By Anita Devlin, Cheerag Shirodaria, Michael Jacobides, Renate Verheul
University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is a major London teaching hospital. It encountered serious financial problems as a result of the consolidation of two separate hospitals into one new hospital building, coupled…
July 2010
Turnaround at UCLH: A hospital in intensive care case (A) and (B)
By Anita Devlin, Cheerag Shirodaria, Michael Jacobides, Renate Verheul
University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is a major London teaching hospital. It encountered serious financial problems as a result of the consolidation of two separate hospitals into one new hospital building, coupled…
August 2018
The UK Government Digital Service
By Julian Birkinshaw, Scott Duncan
The case describes how Mike Bracken, the newly appointed head of the UK Government Digital Service (GDS), took on the massive challenge of setting up, from scratch, a centralised team to deliver online public services…