In April 2025, a US federal court found Google LLC (Google) guilty of illegally misusing its dominant position and maintaining monopolies in advertising technology (AdTech) markets. In its defense, the company argued that ad publishers chose Google not due to a lack of options but because its AdTech solutions were simple, affordable, and effective. While remedies for restoring competition were yet to be determined by the court, Google’s plan for business .....more

The case describes Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s recent arrival as CEO of Xero Ltd., a cloud-based accounting software company, and chronicles the initiatives she undertook to quickly turn the business around through a combination of organizational restructuring, divestitures of non-core assets, and balance sheet optimization, all to ready the company for a transformational acquisition opportunity. Sukhinder and her team formulated what they described .....more

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KaspaCom was a decentralized finance platform built on the Kaspa blockchain, led by founder and chief executive officer Sione Milhem. By early 2026, the company had emerged as the dominant decentralized finance hub within the Kaspa ecosystem, offering an integrated suite of products that included trading, lending, and token launches. Despite strong relative traction, KaspaCom operated within a small and evolving proof-of-work network, with limited .....more

In early March 2026, the United States Department of Defense designated Anthropic, a leading AI safety laboratory and public benefit corporation, as a “supply chain risk,” forbidding Pentagon contractors from using its Claude models after the AI company refused to remove safeguards against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons use. Within hours, competitor OpenAI struck a deal with the Pentagon on the government’s terms. With Anthropic facing litigation, .....more

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada faced a pivotal decision on how to shape Canada’s future in artificial intelligence (AI). Despite global leadership in AI research and talent, Canada remained heavily dependent on foreign cloud platforms and lagged in large-scale commercialization. Geopolitical shifts were redefining global AI power dynamics. This case examines the strategic trade-offs facing Canadian policymakers as they explored .....more

Telstra Group Limited (Telstra), a major Australian communications company, supported a variety of initiatives aimed at bridging the digital divide and promoting digital skills, accessible connectivity, and technology. However, ensuring equitable access for all, including those in remote and Indigenous communities, was a significant challenge. The company’s December 2024 Chief Customer Advocate Report on Customer Vulnerability highlighted unmet demand .....more

By late 2025, Jensen Huang—chief executive officer of NVIDIA Corporation (NVIDIA), an American technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California—faced a critical strategic decision. NVIDIA and Norma Inc. (Norma) collaborated to apply hybrid quantum computing with classical artificial intelligence to drug discovery using the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform. Their work achieved a 73 times speed-up of quantum drug discovery and showed how quantum and .....more

Brandi Lafontaine was the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the American marketing firm OvareGroup. She obtained the promotion from chief data officer after using data to show that the firm could not build its brand while pursuing tangential mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities. Both the prior president and the CEO had enjoyed the M&A angle and left the firm when the board backed Lafontaine, but not before they had entered a strategic .....more

Andrew D’Souza is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Boardy, an AI start-up positioned as an “AI superconnector” that facilitates professional introductions among founders, investors, and other business professionals through a voice-based AI agent. The AI agent also acts as a member of the organization's leadership team. The case asks students to consider how much authority to grant an AI system whose recommendations have been both impressively .....more