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In late 2003, salt producer Compass Minerals celebrated its first day trading as a public company on the NASDAQ. Knowing that it would continue to wrestle with how to price its product and respond to competitive and environmental challenges as a publicly traded company, Compass Minerals would now ha...

Lobstermen are self-employed, and significantly contribute to the economy and identity of Maine communities. In 2012, lobster prices crashed amidst high supply, regulatory demands, and market conglomeration. Lobstermen had to take action to protect and advance their livelihoods. They decided to work...

Over the seven years since its founding in 2010, Spartan Race grew to be the world’s most popular obstacle course race provider. Spartan’s CEO and founder was contemplating an initial public offering but was unsure how the new global revenue recognition standard that the company was in the process o...

In the June 7-8, 2014 weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal, an article entitled “Accounting Errors Hit Hertz Hard” caught auto industry analyst Abby Devins’s attention. Devins recalled that Hertz had hinted in March about the possibility of having to restate its 2011 financial statements, but ...

Founded in 1998, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Akamai provided its customers including Apple, Netflix, and Amazon services to accelerate and improve the delivery of content and applications over the Internet. By 2011, the company's globalization strategy and structure was harming its ability to com...

This case describes how leaders at Mud Bay, a chain of pet products based in Pacific Northwest, changed the way they operated their business from 2014 to 2017. They adopted a framework that included heavy investment in people with operational choices that leverage that investment by increasing produ...