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Custom Content Development

We have written dozens of case studies used by corporate clients and Harvard Business School. Our experience has taught us what to look for in a powerful teaching case and how to make it come to life in the classroom. While the term ‘case study’ is often used to tout a company’s successes, a good teaching case explores a difficult business decision and provides an opportunity to examine multiple perspectives, analyze available data, and consider the human factors at play.


Working with your organization, we will look for stories that highlight challenges faced by your employees and provide meaningful learning opportunities for their peers. In a highly iterative process, we will develop a case study and accompanying teaching materials comparable to those found in leading business schools.


When the final product is complete, we can integrate it into a custom training program for your team or provide support for your organization to conduct its own training sessions. Either way, the content remains solely yours, maintaining strict confidentiality and providing you with a valuable learning tool for years to come.

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Published Works

Below are some of our founder's favorite cases written during his time at Harvard Business School.

ABRY Partners and F+W Publications

ABRY Partners and F+W Publications

September 2006

After acquiring F+W Publications from a rival private equity firm, ABRY Partners became increasingly convinced that they had been deceived by the sellers about the profitability of the company. ABRY must determine whether they were deliberately misled, what courses of action are available, and which they should pursue. Considerations include a mix of legal, ethical, and business issues.

Help Scout

Help Scout

October 2016

The CEO of a venture-backed startup is under immense pressure to scale his business and is continually frustrated by the actions of his co-founding CTO, who seems unable to delegate tasks to his engineering team. The CTO is angered by the CEO’s repeated attempts to redirect the efforts of his team, which he feels completely undermines their trust in him. Desperate to make this work, the CEO wonders how he could repair the relationship and resolve their differences.

Anthology: Pivoting the Business Model

Anthology: Pivoting the Business Model

November 2016

After several product launches with limited success, the CEO of Yabbly has agreed to sell his company to a larger, well-funded startup. Two weeks prior to the scheduled closing, the team launches a final experiment based on the results of a user interview and is overwhelmed by customer interest. With only two weeks of promising data, the CEO must decide whether or not to abandon the planned sale to pursue the new product.

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