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Immersive case studies
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Strat Case Center develops original strategy, governance, and failure cases for business schools, built around real institutional dynamics, decision points, and structural risk.

Move beyond cold calling in business schools. Cases can be downloaded and uploaded into Cognitio Strat to re-live the situation through a boardroom simulation.

Open-cast iron ore mine at dusk, haul truck and dragline excavator in operation

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The Iron Dilemma

The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), ArcelorMittal, and the Price of Survival

“If the blast furnaces at Newcastle were allowed to cool, they would likely never restart.”

A financing decision under operational fragility: logistics failure, demand shock, and irreversible shutdown dynamics.

PDF Dossier · 13 pp · A4 · 558 KB

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Teaching notes & slides — faculty, on request

Bank boardroom at dusk beneath a Capital Bank sign, a robed clergyman seated at the head of the table

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Gods & Governance

Divine Interventions in Corporate Governance at Capital Bank

“The board, designed to be a watchdog, had become a lapdog.”

Authority capture inside governance: fiduciary discipline collapses when oversight becomes relational.

PDF Dossier · 6 pp · A4 · 314 KB

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Teaching notes & slides — faculty, on request

Cognitive Partnership

Master the art of critical co-thinking.

Cognitio Strat is an adversarial reasoning engine designed to sharpen your logic and distinguish machine syntax from objective truth. Download any Strat Case Center dossier, upload it into Cognitio Strat, and re-live the case as a boardroom simulation.

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Teaching notes are not public.

The case dossiers above are open — download them freely and run them in Cognitio Strat. Teaching notes, class slides, and teaching plans carry the analysis and the debrief, so they are released to verified faculty on request.

The Iron Dilemma — on request

› Teaching notes
› Exhibit set — ArcelorMittal SA and IDC integrated reports (2024)

Gods & Governance — on request

› Teaching notes
› Class slides and teaching plan
› Boardroom case deck

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Immersive case studiesfor business schools.

The Iron Dilemma

Gods & Governance

Master the art of critical co-thinking.

Teaching notes are not public.

Immersive case studies
for business schools.