Authoring impact-oriented case studies is one way the Institute helps move business and social impact further into the mainstream.
Working with the Berkeley Haas Case Series and the California Management Review, we develop case studies suitable for inclusion into the general business school curriculum. Cases tackle real-time impact challenges organizations face. We convene events and create media based on the case studies, to help companies understand the issue, identify potential solutions, and measure the impact.
Case Studies
2022
2020
2019
- Zendesk: Building Female Leaders Through Mentorship
- Promoting a Culture of Equity in the #MeToo Era: Moving Beyond Responding to Gender-Related Workplace Issues to Tackling Root Causes
- Patagonia: Closing the Loop on Packaging Pollution
- General Mills: Driving Food Systems Change through Regenerative Agriculture
2018
- Abra: A Global P2P Payment Solution
- Burning Man: Moving from a For-Profit to a Nonprofit, the Ultimate Act of Gifting
- Grameen America: The Pivotal Role of Technology in Scaling
- Patagonia’s Path to Carbon Neutrality by 2025
- Prototyping a Scalable Smart Village
- Young Guru Academy: Culture and the Return on Investment
2017
- Better Ventures: Backing Entrepreneurs Building a Better World
- Eliminating the Gender Pay Gap: Gap Inc. Leads the Way
- Prototyping a Scalable Smart Village to Simultaneously Create Sustainable Development and Enterprise Growth Opportunities
- Reversing Climate Change Through Sustainable Food: Patagonia Provisions Attempts to Scale a “Big Wall”
- Rewarding Consumers for Recycling Packaging: Kimberly-Clark Seeks Shared Value
2016
- Cannabusiness in Washington D.C.
- Levi Strauss: Driving Adoption of Green Chemistry
- Patagonia: Driving Sustainable Innovation by Embracing Tensions
- Sanergy: Tackling Sanitation in Kenyan Slums
- Single Stop USA: Scaling the Model
2015
- Back to the Roots Ventures (BTTR)
- Fair Trade USA: Scaling for Impact
- Groupelephant.com: Going “Beyond Corporate Purpose”
- Revolution Foods: Expansion into the CPG Market
2014
- Chez Panisse: Building an Open Innovation Ecosystem
- The Energy Foundation: Catalyzing and Adapting Networks in China
- Fish Friendly Farming: Water, Wine, and Fish – Sustainable Agriculture for a Thirsty World
- Juhudi Kilimo: Designing Microfinance Staff Incentive Plans
- Napo Pharmaceuticals: Triple Bottom Line of People, Planet, and Profits
- Theaster Gates: Artist as Catalyst for Community Development