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Home of the calibration case method.

Accelerate your understanding of business by browsing our case selections. Pick a concept, and then read the cases within them. As you read, compare and contrast between each case: what are some surprising similarities? What are some surprising dissimilarities?

Doing this simulates what experts do when they examine cases in business and investing. Learn more →

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  • 100+ cases, 20+ concept series

    And growing! The case library receives steady updates of new Calibration Cases.

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Capital Expertise

23 cases

What capital expertise looks like in a business context — both the good and the bad.

Navigating Disruptive Shifts

11 cases

How businesses and businesspeople deal with disruptive shifts — where something they believed to be true, or that they had built their business around, changes at a fundamental level.

Cornered Resource

12 cases

A collection of cases on cornered resource as a competitive advantage.

Branding

7 cases

Branding is one of the hardest competitive moats to build, and one of the most powerful.

Process Power

3 cases

Process Power is a competitive moat, one of the 7 Powers, and the rarest and hardest to understand.

Business Expansion

7 cases

Business expansion can be fraught with danger. This concept sequence covers cases of companies that grew successfully, as well as those that died from over-expansion.

New Cases

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