Latest cases
February 2011
Changing the Fortunes of E.ON’s Corporate Customer Business (A)
By Michael Jacobides, Adrian Merrick
This case details UK energy supplier E.ON’s business turnaround from 2008. The company operated generation, distribution and retail businesses, with separately run sales and customer service operations. Following the departure of the heads of the sales and the customer service divisions, Adrian Me...
May 2017
Capitec Bank – Redefining Retail Banking: Innovation Through Elimination
By Freek Vermeulen
The consumer banking industry is notoriously hard to enter. Customers rarely switch banks (switching costs are high) and there are considerable barriers to entry to new players. Traditionally, banking products can be complex, often accompanied by non-transparent cross-selling practices and hidden fe...
March 2022
Burberry’s Digital Strategy
By Donald Sull, Stefano Turconi, Sanam Zanjani
The case analyses how Burberry developed and executed a strategy centered on millennial consumers, British appeal and distinctive digital capabilities, transforming the sesquicentennial brand into an international luxury powerhouse. Burberry’s digital transformation was spearheaded by CEO Angela A...
December 2014
Budgetplaces.com (C)
By John Mullins, Shira Conradi
This is part of a case series. John Erceg was in a quandary. It was a sunny spring day in Barcelona in April 2010, and he’d been negotiating for several weeks with a possible buyer for the company that he’d created from scratch and built over the past seven years. Apart from buying two Barcelona...
December 2014
Budgetplaces.com (B)
By John Mullins, Shira Conradi
This is part of a case series. John Erceg was in a quandary. It was a sunny spring day in Barcelona in April 2010, and he’d been negotiating for several weeks with a possible buyer for the company that he’d created from scratch and built over the past seven years. Apart from buying two Barcelona...