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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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Navigating Disruptive Shifts

9 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.

Competitive Arbitrage

8 cases

The central problem of business is that you find something lucrative, and then competitors copy you and drive profits down to the opportunity cost of capital. This is what that looks like.

Family Business Succession

5 cases

Stories of succession in a family business.

Branding

6 cases

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

Incentive Design

14 cases

How entities — companies, firms, protocols — design effective incentives to accomplish effective goals.

Process Improvement

13 cases

Process improvement is harder than it looks because of a 'worse before better' dynamic. This is what that looks like.

New Cases

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