In 2019, EY needed to decide how to move forward with its neurodiversity employment initiative. Demand for the services provided by the company’s Neuro-Diverse Centers of Excellence (NCoEs) exceeded supply, and decisions about priorities and work assignments were being made on too much of an ad hoc basis. Hiren Shukla, the director of the NCoEs, and Jamell Mitchell, the NCoE Strategic Ecosystems Leader, needed to determine how to 1) allocate the existing .....more

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In January 2025, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. launched a breakthrough large language model (LLM) on the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) landscape. DeepSeek was a disruptive application: it had modest hardware requirements and low training costs and was released as a modified open-source app, allowing users access to the weights and codes DeepSeek used in its learning process. Users could run .....more

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This case describes the origins, design, and operations of a social enterprise that was working on the challenge of making high-skill employment opportunities available to non-speaking people with autism. Key to the organization’s efforts was a unique community model that provided the supports needed to activate the talents of a group of people who had historically been excluded from the labour market. These activities were an important part of the .....more

This case focuses on the efforts of Bavarian Nordic A/S, a Danish pharmaceutical company, to create a new COVID-19 vaccine. Their vaccine is based on a newer technology and has the potential to provide longer-lasting protection than the currently dominant BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. However, the project also faces obstacles related to uncertainty of vaccine efficacy, financing, product positioning, distribution, and access to production .....more

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A.P. Moller-Maersk (MAERSK), an integrated container logistics company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, has been on a decade long strategic transformation journey that was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. MAERSK’s ambitious strategic business transformation converted the organization from an unwieldy family-owned conglomerate to an integrated container and logistics company. This massive shift required new organizational capabilities, new leadership, .....more

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