MIT Sloan Strategy Case Studies

In mid-2018, the U.S. auto industry was in the early stages of what many believed would be a significant evolution in how people thought about and used cars. The future would be dominated by electric and autonomous vehicles. Car ownership in which people paid for a hard asset with all its bells and ...

Discusses where a firm making solar panels has competitive advantage by looking at its costs and customers’ willingness to pay. Investigates whether such an advantage can be maintained in the face of substantial market shifts. Illustrates the complexity of the energy industry, particularly PV solar ...

Fishbanks is a multiplayer web-based simulation in which participants play the role of fishers and seek to maximize their net worth as they compete against other players and deal with variations in fish stocks and their catch. Participants buy, sell, and build ships; decide where to fish; and negoti...

Creates awareness on the importance of measuring workers’ financial wellness, enables discussion of the difference between market wages and living wages and highlight why benchmarking the market for frontline workers often results in high turnover, inability to focus on the job, low productivity and...

Illustrates the Indian pharmaceutical and intellectual property environment; and highlight the tradeoffs faced by startups expanding into new sectors.

In 2011 Rich Piltch, founder and CEO of ARS, a full-service restoration and reconstruction company based in New England, and the owners of three other restoration and reconstruction companies founded Restoration Affiliates (RA), a network of independent, full-service disaster restoration companies. ...

In this live web-based simulation, participants play the role of senior management at a video game hardware platform producer, such as Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft. Built around a companion case study describing the launch of Sony’s PlayStation 3, the simulation explores the dynamics of competition ...

Investigate the growth of the sports media industry, analyze competitive marketplace dynamics in media, sports, and entertainment, consider how incumbent media companies manage the impact of technological disruption on business models, operations, and consumer behavior, examine the implications of d...

Corning’s Growth and Strategy Council—a centralized team that included the CEO, COO, and CTO who were heavily involved in managing the company’s innovation strategy—had enabled the company to continually re-create itself with new technologies and products. Set in 2008, the case highlights the inner ...

Illustrates the challenges of pricing in a commodity market with variable demand.