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Micro-mill or Mass Market? Organizational Crossroads in Costa Rican Coffee Cooperatives
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Steven Samford
This case describes a group of neighboring small coffee farmers in Costa Rica led informally by Elías Hernández. In August 2021, the group is weighing a decision to remain part…
Publication Date: 06/20/2022 Product ID: 6-199-214
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Transforming a Successful Organization: Societal Changes Challenge the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan
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WDI Publishing
This case is about the transformation of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan (AAUM), one of the major organizations in its field. It begins with the CEO, Steve…
Publication Date: 05/24/2022 Product ID: 5-843-641
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An Artisanal Bread Baker Diversifies her Product Line: The Case of Devrim Mumcuogullari
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Amy Gillett
Devrim Mumcuogullari had been baking and selling bread successfully for the past two years. Her business had grown as her high-quality and nutritious products attracted new customers through word-of-mouth. With…
Publication Date: 05/06/2021 Product ID: 1-121-143
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A Social Entrepreneur Explores Alternative Business Models During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Rawan Hudaifa
In 2020, Rawan Hudaifa, the Syrian migrant and entrepreneur behind Tina Zita (TZ), found her social enterprise in dire circumstances amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to public fear, a ban…
Publication Date: 05/06/2021 Product ID: 2-918-962
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A Cheese Producer Pursues a New Market through E-commerce: The Case of Mohamed Bakkar
When Mohamed Bakkar started Besma in 2016, he was among the few producers of Syrian-style cheese in Istanbul. About five years later, while Bakkar had a customer base of ten…
Publication Date: 05/06/2021 Product ID: 3-090-835
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Following the Scent to Success to Grow her Rose Water Business: The Case of Zeina Wazzan
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Amy Gillett
Zeina Wazzan, a Syrian refugee now living in Turkey, has been selling rose water and other essences on a small scale. As the case begins, she is at an inflection…
Publication Date: 05/06/2021 Product ID: 2-945-000
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Köprü: A Culinary Entrepreneur Incubation Program Aims for Sustainability to Address Humanitarian Challenges in Turkey
This case opens in Istanbul, Turkey in early 2020. The protagonist, Emine, is the executive director of Ulkayo, a fictional, Turkish-based non-governmental organization (NGO) implementing the Köprü entrepreneur incubation program.…
Publication Date: 01/18/2021 Product ID: 6-472-935
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Anticipating Changes to African Supply Chains as a Result of COVID-19: The Case of Senegal
Amadou Sene, director of the Supply Chain Management Center of Excellence at the African Institute of Management (IAM), had recently started a supply chain advising group in Senegal. Formal training…
Publication Date: 09/30/2020 Product ID: 5-322-306
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The Costa Rican Software Corridor: Startup Develops Expansion Plans for Latin America
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Michael Metzger
In the 1990s, San José, Costa Rica, was beginning to emerge as a Latin American hot spot for the information technology sector. SPS Software, a small startup in San José,…
Publication Date: 08/10/2020 Product ID: 1-369-193
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Careem: MENA Ride-hailing Leader Strategizes Future Growth as an Uber Subsidiary
First place winner in WDI Publishing’s MENA Case Writing Competition “Doing Business in the Middle East North Africa Region,” sponsored by Michigan Ross Executive Education.
This case examines the unique…
Publication Date: 07/14/2020 Product ID: 7-314-518
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Margaret Huebner: Building the Human Resources Function at Oman’s Port of Salalah
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Dana Sumpter, Mona Zanhour
Second place winner in WDI Publishing’s MENA Case Writing Competition “Doing Business in the Middle East North Africa Region,” sponsored by Michigan Ross Executive Education.
This case describes how consultant…
Publication Date: 07/14/2020 Product ID: 7-901-521
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Etihad Airways: Rethinking Internationalization and Growth
Third place winner in WDI Publishing’s MENA Case Writing Competition “Doing Business in the Middle East North Africa Region”, sponsored by Michigan Ross Executive Education.
This case presents a situation…
Publication Date: 07/14/2020 Product ID: 1-368-110
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Note on the Governance of Nonprofit Organizations: Lessons from Mayo Clinic
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Paul Clyde, Aneel Karnani
This conceptual note discusses the governance problems in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) from both a theoretical and practical perspective. It then describes the governance structure at Mayo Clinic and explores the…
Publication Date: 12/18/2018 Product ID: 1-291-312
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Muni Seva Ashram
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Paul Clyde
This case explores the challenges and opportunities faced by a hospital serving a poor rural market in India. The hospital, Muni Seva Ashram, has developed into a campus of buildings…
Publication Date: 12/13/2012 Product ID: 1-429-220
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SEWA-Rural
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Paul Clyde
The Society for Education Welfare and Action-Rural (SEWA-Rural) was founded in 1980 in Jhagadia, Gujarat, India with the intention of uplifting the poor community by providing necessary healthcare services. Through…
Publication Date: 12/13/2012 Product ID: 1-429-221
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Kim Ian's Dairy Delights: An Enterprise in Transition
Kim Ian Dumagco is realizing that running an independent start-up business is tougher than managing a student start-up. He first launched his goat’s milk-based cream cheese business, Kim Ian’s Dairy…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-000-900
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Milk Gone Wrong
Nerissa Baldemor manages Quality Assurance as well as R&D at Hacienda Macalauan, a milk supplier for hotels, restaurants, catering, and major supermarkets. When the corporation encounters a breach in its…
Publication Date: 01/13/2017 Product ID: 1-006-900
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Maria's Sisters: A Rice Crisis
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Safa Manala-O
Maria’s Sisters recently launched a livelihood project for its members, composed of women of the Velez district on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The program distributed bags of…
Publication Date: 11/09/2016 Product ID: 1-006-800
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A Taste of the Future: ASEAN Milk Sweets Distribution in Pangasinan, Philippines
Pronto Distributor aims to deliver quality products from a number of suppliers to stores within the Philippines and faces pressure to increase sales from one of its confectionary suppliers, UNIFAM.…
Publication Date: 01/13/2017 Product ID: 1-006-700
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Built to Last? The Garpaz Enterprises’ Buildings in Baguio City
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Emilina Sarreal
Garpaz Enterprises, a commercial leasing firm, faces a looming crisis. Their occupancy rates are falling, and the owners of this small, family-owned business do not know why. The owners have…
Publication Date: 11/09/2016 Product ID: 1-006-600
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Active Microtechnology Solutions, Inc. Solution Simplified to Override
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Arjun G. Ansay
Jenny Perez created Active Microtechnology Solutions to serve as a b2b solution to provide repair and restoration services for computer equipment that would otherwise be discarded. Having established a reliable…
Publication Date: 11/09/2016 Product ID: 1-006-500
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Watered Down The Quest for Access in an Island Community
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Erwin Daculan
The island of Bantayan, Philippines is undergoing a significant transformation as NGO’s work with the community to modernize the island, replacing traditional homes of leaves and corrugated metal with concrete…
Publication Date: 11/09/2016 Product ID: 1-006-400
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Crossroads for a Young Entrepreneur Wings of Fame
Crossroads for a Young Entrepreneur details a career dilemma faced by Jaap Bala, a recent graduate, who created a successful business with his peers while at university and now faces…
Publication Date: 11/09/2016 Product ID: 1-006-300
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STPC Cooperative Can we really do it on our own?
The Sampaloc Talisay Producers Cooperative, formed in 2006, is a local cooperative that allows local producers to process milkfish to sell in the local economy. The case study walks students…
Publication Date: 11/09/2016 Product ID: 1-006-200
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REFMAD-V Enterprise’s Vine of Life Quo Vadis?
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Charito Julian
Edita Aguinaldo-Dacuycuy is a dragon fruit grower in Ilocos Norte, Philippines and has been slowly increasing capacity throughout the years. As her plantation has grown, she forged partnerships with other…
Publication Date: 11/09/2016 Product ID: 1-006-100
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Kenneth’s Healthy Options Boosting the Calamansi Industry in ZamPen
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Rivera Aliponga
Wellson Foods wants to expand beyond beverage distribution and include tropical juice processing within its business operations. The company plans to produce and sell calamansi juice to its existing Philippine…
Publication Date: 01/13/2017 Product ID: 1-006-000
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Falcon Logistics A truck fleet is fleeting
Mylo T. Melendrez, VP of warehouse operations for Falcon Logistics, is facing a small problem. Falcon is experiencing challenges with logistics and on-time deliveries but is already operating at the…
Publication Date: 11/09/2016 Product ID: 1-005-900
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Distilling Best Practices The Thermophile Files
Thermophilic bacteria are bacteria which thrive under high heat conditions that typically kill most other types of bacteria. Thermophilic bacterial contamination is a major and persistent problem for many types…
Publication Date: 10/07/2016 Product ID: 1-005-800
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Hamungaya Sugar Mill Too Sweet to Sweat
Established in 2013, Felipe Pachoco’s Hamungaya Sugar Mill just established its first major distribution deal for its muscovado sugar product. Muscovado is a type of semi-refined sugar that can be…
Publication Date: 10/07/2016 Product ID: 1-005-700
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To Burn or Not to Burn The San Ramon Coal-Fired Power Plant
Blackouts are a serious problem in Zamboanga City, Philippines and residents and businesses demanded a solution. In response, the mayor’s administration evaluated several possible solutions. One solution under consideration was…
Publication Date: 10/07/2016 Product ID: 1-005-600
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Net Metering Bane or Boon
Net metering is the practice of allowing utility customers with renewable electricity generation systems to sell their excess power to the electrical grid. Net metering offers several benefits to local…
Publication Date: 10/07/2016 Product ID: 1-005-500
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Carlo’s Inven-Story
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Mar B. Cruz
Carlo is the new plant manager at his family’s company and is tasked with making improvements to the way the company does business. First on his list is fixing the…
Publication Date: 08/23/2016 Product ID: 1-005-300
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Viscaffe Ready for the Second Cup
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Joviel Teves
Argie Pomida, the manager of Viscaffe, is feeling jubilant as the campus gets ready to usher in yet another Visayas State University Anniversary. It was during last year’s anniversary that…
Publication Date: 08/23/2016 Product ID: 1-005-200
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ZipMatch.com From Start-Up to Scaling Up
Based in the Philippines, ZipMatch.com is an online real estate marketplace that connects buyers and sellers, offering trend information to buyers and generating leads for brokerage firms and property developers.…
Publication Date: 08/23/2016 Product ID: 1-005-100
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Sterilab Company They Cannot Do It Alone
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Patrick S. Zeta
Sterilab Company is a local importer and distributor of laboratory consumables. While its sales force of six is putting up stellar sales numbers month after month, the company’s Chief Operating…
Publication Date: 08/23/2016 Product ID: 1-005-000
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Quandary at Kai's Kitchen A Staffing Crisis
Kai Fuentes had a successful family-operated home-based food business. Business was so good that he decided to scale up and open Kai’s Kitchen, a restaurant serving home-cooked meals with rich…
Publication Date: 08/23/2016 Product ID: 1-004-900
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Packaging Matters Is It Time to Move on?
Pamela Sanchez is a raw material quality analyst at the Marion City, Philippines-based Del Valley Fruit Products. She is deeply troubled by a distributor’s discovery — a bulging can. It…
Publication Date: 08/23/2016 Product ID: 1-004-800
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Lomi King Savoring the Taste of Royalty
Fatima To is the owner of Lomi King, a family-owned restaurant located in Lipa City Philippines. She is thinking about expanding the business to new locations in Metro Manila, but…
Publication Date: 08/23/2016 Product ID: 1-004-700
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Green Fields Coco Products Seeking a Sustainable Future
The owner of Green Fields Coco Products is lost in a dream about making it big on the international scene with his virgin coconut oil (VCO) products. Alas, it is…
Publication Date: 08/23/2016 Product ID: 1-004-600
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EL-JOY Garments Dressing Up or Dressing Down?
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Juvy G. Mojares
Gloria Malayan is the owner of the garment subcontractor, EL-JOY Garments. Although she has been in business for 16 years, she faces many problems. These include a low retention rate…
Publication Date: 08/23/2016 Product ID: 1-004-500
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Abadilla Contract Growing A Life With So Many Chicks
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Eric S. Parilla
Marc’s father has entrusted him with the care of the family’s contract growing poultry business. Business was good for the first few years but for the past six growing seasons…
Publication Date: 08/23/2016 Product ID: 1-004-400
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A Kidney for a Life Julio's Story
Julio de los Reyes is a garbage sorter at a dumpsite in the Philippines. Lately a man has been approaching the workers there to sell their kidneys claiming that it…
Publication Date: 08/23/2016 Product ID: 1-004-300
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Hello … Goodbye! Developing Inclusive Community Health and Development Programs
Maria Tuklaslakas, a new faculty member of the speech pathology department of the University of Philippines, is tasked with going through 30 years of documents to develop a plan for…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-004-200
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Fishing for the Future: Education for Sustainable Development
Julius is a principal of a school on Bilangbilangan Island, Philippines and is concerned about illegal fishing activity around the island, specifically dynamite fishing. The Danajon Double Barrier Reef also…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-004-100
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Dark Matter of Conflict: The Semirara Coal Mine Accident
Harold Dureza has been tapped to lead the Philippine Department of Energy team to find the root cause of the most recent coal mine accident at Semirara Island, which has…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-004-000
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Green Light Please An Algorithm–Based Public Motility System for Batangas City
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Evelyn Z. Red
Vera has just been tapped as transportation development regulatory officer of Batangas City, Philippines and is tasked with solving the city’s traffic problems. She looks back on her education in…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-003-800
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Here comes the sun, here comes the smell
Fernalyn E. Barahim, a young councilor of Barangay Talisayan in Zamboanga City, Philippines is worried about the tourism industry in her town. The west part of town is plagued with…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-003-700
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Hellfire Charred Lives and the Burning Resolve of the Kentex Tragedy
In the aftermath of a flip flop factory fire in the Philippines that killed 72, injured dozens and left a dozen more missing, Kentex Operations Manager Terrence Ong is lying…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-003-600
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The Winning Formula: Breast Milk Substitutes in the Developing World
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Luis F. Razon
In the “Winning Formula” case the protagonist finds himself in the crosshairs, trying to please his boss while not crossing ethical or regulatory lines. The infant formula his company is…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-003-500
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Sunny Farm Enterprises, Inc.: Getting Far Off the Ground
Elton de Luna is thinking about scaling his layer poultry farm, but he is constrained by the high cost of feed ingredients, the expansion of competitors, and a lack of…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-003-400
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Nature's Protector: Proper Solid Waste Management
Marissa Mercado has been hired as the environmental management specialist of the National Solid Waste Management Commission-Secretariat. It will be her job to coordinate with local government units for proper…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-003-300
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Where Have All The Patients Gone?
Dr. Roland Garcia has just been assigned to the Area 5 Health Center in San Antonio, a highly-urbanized city located in the capital region of the Philippines. Three months into…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-003-200
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There you Are, SES!
Grandpa Sun Chu lives by the Confucian proverb, “He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.” He wants to be known more for his…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-003-100
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Strategizing for a Nurse-Led Clinic
Leah is thinking about starting one of the first nurse-led clinics in the Philippines, but to do so she must develop a marketing plan and business plan that will allow…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-003-000
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State University Manila: Communicating in Times of Crisis
School is just about to start, the board of regents is about to meet, and State University Manila University finds itself in the midst of a communications crisis. A janitor…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-002-900
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Special Education for Tahan Tahanan
A university student majoring in special education, Michael is tasked with finding the appropriate mix of education modules for Bella, a Grade 5 student and cancer patient. Bella is a…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-002-800
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Supporting Micro, Small, Medium-Sized Enterprises in Southern Philippines
Rolando Acuna is tired of seeing micro, small, and medium-sized businesses fail. The provincial director of the Department of Industry and Trade is assessing what his organization has already done…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-002-700
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Missing: Who is in Charge?
Jerry Uy, a council member in Tacloban City, Philippines is fed up with the disaster response of the city after recent calamities, especially Typhoon Haiyan. Local/national wranglings have left the…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-002-600
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Looking Beyond the Walls
Jose Estrella is proud of what he has been able to accomplish since taking on the administrator position at the Intramuros Administration. Just a couple of years ago Maestranza plaza…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-002-500
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Lakbay Shipping Lines on the Go
Cruise Operations Officer Don Maginoo is trying to find a better way to manage ship operations including the administration of ticket reservations, accommodations, and special package deals. He thinks that…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-002-400
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Global Warming: Heating Up the Science Classroom
The Global Warming case uses teachers from two separate ninth grade classes to introduce education students to the benefits and perils of involving socioscientific issues in the classroom. Both characters…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-002-300
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Geniale: On the Verge of Losing a Multi-Million Peso Market
Everyone is enjoying the beautiful sunny weather on a Sunday in the Philippines, but Robert Mendez is stuck at the office. A small community in Northern Luzon has accused his…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-002-200
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Empty Bubbles: The Case of the Missing Tablets
Leticia Rodriguez is the new vice president of quality assurance for a nutritional supplement company and she has just been handed a complaint. A customer purchased a blister pack and…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-002-100
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Carmen's Best Dairy Products Prepares to Go Global
Paco Magsaysay, the protagonist of the case, is looking to grow his business outside the Philippines starting with the ASEAN region. He wants Carmen’s Best Dairy Products to become a…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-002-000
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Komsay, Inc. The Business Proposal
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Janice Velasquez
Dan, a senior programmer in the management information systems department at Komsay, Inc. is asked to draft a business proposal to a university for a student-grade mobile application. It was…
Publication Date: 12/15/2014 Product ID: 1-001-800
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Tagay The Culture of Sharing Glasses
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Brian Vasquez
Brian is faced with the decision to share a common glass as part of a cultural practice in Cebu, Philippines or stick with his professional training as a nurse delivering…
Publication Date: 12/16/2014 Product ID: 1-001-700
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Manok Mabuhay Dressed or Undressed?
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Glenn Baticados
Manok Mabuhay Project Manager Glenn Baticados has a choice to make — to continue to harvest for both the dressed and undressed chicken markets or to harvest for the dressed…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-001-600
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Merryland Campsite Redefining Nature at its Best
Evelyn Estigoy, owner of Merryland Campsite — a Batangas City, Philippines-based business with a strong commitment to serving God — is considering rehabilitating and redeveloping her campsite, but she can…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-001-500
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Gamma Medical School Group At Your Service
The Gamma Medical School Group (GMSG) case explores the strategic problems facing the groups’s medical staff chief as he goes about preparing recommendations his boss will deliver to the GMSG…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-001-400
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Best Builders Inc. Improving Construction Site Safety
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Ruel Cabahug
Johnny Cruz joined Best Builders as its safety officer just one month ago. During this time, he has witnessed a number of minor injuries on the company’s condominium project worksite.…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-001-300
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Golden Horse Microfinance On the Brink of Bankruptcy
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Francis Cimene
Conrad Vergara, the CEO of Golden Horse Microfinance (GHMI), just received the company’s financial reports for the past five months, and he is surprised at what he sees — the…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-001-200
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Tri Nova Catering Services Well-Fed or Fed Up?
Julia Dy Mendoza, owner of Tri Nova Catering Services, is considering divesting her company of its catering operations and growing canteen operations, or continuing to grow the catering side of…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-001-100
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The Skyfall The Ana Maria Transit Bus Accident
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Carolina Sangga
Darius Garcia has been asked to lead the accident investigation team for the Ana Maria Transit bus accident. As he analyzes the accident evidence, he asks himself: Did the driver…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-001-000
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WVCST Balancing Development with Environmental Management
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Jasper Pastrano
The Iloilo City, Philippines-based Western Visayas College of Science and Technology (WVCST) has been undergoing major infrastructure development that has resulted in the mass clearing of trees on campus. At…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-000-800
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Synapse Software Technologies A Search for the Next Top Model
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Dave E. Marcial
Synapse Software Technologies bid on and won a subcontract from TRADI Systems Inc. Now the proprietor of Synapse must evaluate the needs of the contract and determine the best system…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-000-700
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Zone 5 Photo Studios, INC. The Graduate's Partner
Zone 5 Photo Studios Inc. is a photo studio specializing in the niche market of graduation photos. Zone 5 has created market share and brand recognition as a quality photo…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-000-600
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VicHealth The World's First Health Promotion Foundation
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Sheila Bonito
Country X, an island in the Pacific, has a high mortality and morbidity rate due to non-communicable diseases. To help mitigate the impact of these diseases, Country X has developed…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-000-500
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Ecotourism The Boon or Bane for a Marine Sanctuary
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Ruth Guzman
Gilutongan Island has been struck with poverty for decades. Within the past several decades, Island dwellers have made efforts toward conserving and protecting their natural resources. The Gilutongan Marine Sanctuary…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-000-400
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Golden Apple Snail Infestation on the Rice Bowl Capitals of the Philippines
The Golden Apple Snail entered the Philippines and has since become a pest to rice paddies across the nation. Efforts to eradicate the snail include various methods, all with varying…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-000-300
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Arc Enterprise Getting a Start-up out of the Pit
Arvin Costanilla had promising prospects that a dalandan juice processing business would be a fruitful endeavor. Entering the industry, Costanilla develops business strategies that he believes will help his business…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-000-200
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Strategic Marketing for Roofloor Enterprises Corporation Building a Framework for the Future
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Raquel Laquiores
The construction industry in the Philippines is booming. Roofloor Enterprises Corporation capitalized on the industry’s expansion recently and now must carve out market share. As its market share and brand…
Publication Date: 12/12/2014 Product ID: 1-000-100
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Trappist Monastic Food Products Devout Expansion for Enhanced Community Service
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Rowena Gelvezon
The Trappist Monastic Food Products (TMFP) in Guimaras Island is a small-scale producer of various food products owned by the Superior of Our Lady of the Philippines Abbey, Inc. Brother…
Publication Date: 12/11/2014 Product ID: 1-000-000
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Hindustan Unilever and the Prenatal Care Market
The need for maternity cosmetic solutions has increased, especially in the Indian market because of higher disposable incomes and a trend of maintaining pre-pregnancy appearances. Indian Industry experts have wondered…
Publication Date: 12/17/2014 Product ID: 1-429-405
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Going Bananas for Change: An Industry Ripe for Corporate Social Responsibility
Going Bananas for Change features Banacolombia, a banana producer in Colombia that has faced an industry rampant with downward pricing pressure and poor working conditions. To overcome the race to…
Publication Date: 10/16/2014 Product ID: 1-429-402
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Uganda Venture A Sustainable Microcredit Initiative
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Sujit Sur, Anisa Awad
Uganda Venture is a social enterprise working toward alleviating poverty in Uganda. It began a microcredit initiative in 2013, extending loans to those in the agriculture and business sector. With…
Publication Date: 12/02/2014 Product ID: 1-429-399
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Fundación Paraguaya (C): Challenging SROI
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Paul Godfrey
This case outlines four problems with the Social Return on Capital (SROI) metric, which quantifies the social impact of programs like Fundacion Paraguaya. How do you accurately quantify the impact…
Publication Date: 12/02/2011 Product ID: 1-429-218
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Women Entrepreneurs in Rwanda: Loans and Banking--NYINAwaJAMBO--Kinyarwanda version
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Etienne Musonera
This Kinyarwanda-language version case was written about an alumnus of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative, which aims to bring high-quality business and management education to 10,000 underserved women around…
Publication Date: 07/22/2010 Product ID: 1-429-139
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Women Entrepreneurs in Rwanda: Banana Wine by Coproviba—Kinyarwanda-language version
by:
Etienne Musonera
This is the Kinyarwanda-language version of the case was written for a class in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative, which aims to bring high-quality business and management education to…
Publication Date: 09/16/2010 Product ID: 1-429-138
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Chobani, LLC: Growing a Brand and an Industry
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Ryan Atkins
Hamdi Ulukaya, the owner of Chobani, is considering how to grow his organization going forward. The company has been hugely successful since its launch in 2007, albeit with some missteps.…
Publication Date: 04/28/2016 Product ID: 1-430-488
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Renewable Energy at the National Aquarium
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Jeremiah Johnson
Christina Gomez, energy and sustainability manager for the National Aquarium in Maryland, is looking back at the success the organization has had over the past two years in shrinking its…
Publication Date: 03/23/2016 Product ID: 1-430-451
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Evading the Death Spiral: Minnesota's Value of Solar Tariff
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Jeremiah Johnson
Chair of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Beverly Jones Heydinger has to decide on the right formula for the Minnesota Value of Solar Tariff (VOST). The calculation is a replacement…
Publication Date: 10/08/2015 Product ID: 1-430-450
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Uber Technologies, Inc.: Global Strategies, Local Challenges
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Surinder Batra
Uber is controversial everywhere it goes. The company has been banned in several cities in India after the alleged rape of a female passenger in Delhi. In other cities around…
Publication Date: 08/12/2015 Product ID: 1-430-443
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Walmart and USAID: The Evolution of a Global Cross-Sector Partnership
by:
Ted London, Colm Fay
This case explores the evolution of the cross-sector relationship between Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Walmart Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from 2000-2015. It focuses on partnerships that…
Publication Date: 07/31/2015 Product ID: 1-430-438
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Remembering the Rana Plaza Workers: Change or Status Quo?
by:
Mark Heuer, Lizette Smook
The eight-story Rana Plaza garment factory has just collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 and injuring hundreds. Ineke Zeldenrust of the Clean Clothes Campaign, a global labor advocacy group, is…
Publication Date: 01/18/2016 Product ID: 1-430-437
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SughaVazhvu: An Affordable and Accessible Model for Last Mile Healthcare
Zeena Johar started SughaVazhvu in 2009 to provide better healthcare to those living in rural India. Since then, the organization has served more than 65,000 patients in 57 villages, but…
Publication Date: 09/09/2016 Product ID: 1-430-436
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India’s Mandatory CSR: New Opportunities or Challenges for NGOs?
This case is based on Section 135 of India’s Companies Act, 2013, which makes India the only country in the world to mandate CSR spending. Corporations meeting certain criteria must…
Publication Date: 05/01/2015 Product ID: 1-430-434
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Dilemma of an Area Manager
Shraddha Repp is a young, successful sales area manager for a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company in India. But she is faced with a problem with one of her leading…
Publication Date: 05/20/2015 Product ID: 1-430-432
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Boroline Branding: More Than Cosmetic Changes
A once dominate market leader in the skin care segment, Boroline – a moisturizing skin cream – has receded in relevancy and popularity in the Indian market. The brand had…
Publication Date: 04/16/2015 Product ID: 1-429-432
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Flipkart: The Big Billion Day Fiasco
To compete in the fast developing Indian e-commerce arena, Flipkart initiated one of the most ambitious online sales events the country had ever seen. Despite the excitement the sale caused,…
Publication Date: 05/13/2015 Product ID: 1-429-431
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Unnati: Sustaining Value in the Agricultural Sector of Rural India
Akshamaala was designed to provide information and communication technology (ICT) solutions to improve sales, field force effectiveness, and customer interactions. Entrepreneurs Amit Sinha and Ashok Prasad started the firm for…
Publication Date: 12/04/2015 Product ID: 1-429-430
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United Care Philanthropy Exchange: A Social Innovation for Economic Development in India
United Care Development Services United Care (UC) is a not-for-profit organization (NPO) that acts as a “philanthropy catalyst” or intermediary between donors and local NPOs that provide education, health, energy,…
Publication Date: 05/19/2014 Product ID: 1-429-394
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Rimi Latvia: Growing (Store?) Managers Faster
The Rimi case underscores the difficult recruitment and retention landscape in the retail industry, specifically store management, and requires students to develop creative solutions to these challenges. At the same…
Publication Date: 08/05/2014 Product ID: 1-429-393
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Brand You: Marketing Yourself for Success Globally
In this exercise students develop a personal marketing plan to promote their individual international business agendas. This is an eight-part process that involves the creation of a mission statement, summary…
Publication Date: 04/17/2014 Product ID: 1-429-392
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Ergo: Ethical Crises of a German Insurance Giant
by:
Glyn Atwal, Douglas Bryson
What should a company do when it is hit with a corporate image crisis? This question plagued Ergo, a German insurance company, when it’s revealed that they threw a party…
Publication Date: 04/04/2014 Product ID: 1-429-390
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U.S. Farm Bill: Balancing Hypoxia-Related Interests
It is 2013 and the U.S. Farm Bill is up for a vote. Senate staffer Sally Davis is reviewing the e-mails, news reports, Twitter feeds, and opinion pieces coming in…
Publication Date: 08/19/2013 Product ID: 1-429-346
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BioOne Open Access and the Changing Landscape of Academic Publishing
by:
Juan Florin, Lauren Kane
Publishing consultant Howard Gutenberg is wondering which strategy he will recommend to BioOne — a financially sustainable non-profit organization operating in the scientific publishing arena. The organization’s subscription model and…
Publication Date: 07/16/2013 Product ID: 1-429-344
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Your Global Footprint
This exercise was developed for students to see their personal “footprints” on the world by plotting which of the world’s countries (and corresponding populations and economies), languages, and religions they…
Publication Date: 11/06/2014 Product ID: 1-429-343
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Gillette: The 11-cent Razor, India, and Reverse Innovation
by:
Ryan Atkins
The “Gillette: The 11-Cent Razor, India, and Reverse Innovation” case describes Gillette’s development of the low cost Gillette Guard for the Indian market. After moderate success with razor introductions in…
Publication Date: 04/15/2013 Product ID: 1-429-328
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CCI Last Mile Distribution Challenge
In 2007, Akhilesh Gupta and Naren Shah reconfigured Candy and Chocolate India with a vision to build an effective and efficient Route to Market (RTM). The objectives of the reconfiguration…
Publication Date: 04/05/2013 Product ID: 1-429-325
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Building a Scalable Business with Small-Holder Farmers in Kenya: Honey Care’s Beekeeping Model
by:
Ted London, Heather Esper
Madison Ayer, Honey Care Africa (HCA) CEO, is looking to scale the business to generate more benefits for Kenyan small-holder farmers. He is seeking a better assessment of HCA’s impacts…
Publication Date: 02/11/2013 Product ID: 1-429-313
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An Itch for Change Challenges of Change Management for MamaBhasha Publications
by:
Ajith K. Thomas
This mini-case was based on a true story of organizational change gone awry at a prominent book publishing company in India. The protagonist is the general manager of MamaBhasha Publications’…
Publication Date: 01/25/2013 Product ID: 1-429-310
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Day One as CEO of Dover University Hospital: An In-Basket Case
Raymond Wilcox just began a new position as COO at Dover University Hospital when suddenly, at the request of the Chairman of the Board, he becomes CEO. With only two…
Publication Date: 03/18/2013 Product ID: 1-429-305
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Naandi Foundation—Slide Deck: Bringing Safe Water to India’s Villages and Communities
by:
James Koch
The failure of governments and international agencies to provide access to safe drinking water for more than a billion people in developing countries constitutes a large unmet demand and hence…
Publication Date: 11/15/2012 Product ID: 1-429-288
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Lattelecom: Flexible Benefits System Implementation
On the cold and sunny morning of January 10, 2012 Ingrida Rone, Human Resource Director and Board member of Lattelecom, the leading provider of electronic communications services in Latvia, opened…
Publication Date: 03/12/2013 Product ID: 1-429-251
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Fundación Paraguaya (B): Measuring Social Impact
by:
Paul Godfrey
This case accompanies the Fundacion Paraguaya (A) case. Martin Burt, CEO of Fundacion Paraguay, has helped another school become financially self-sufficient using the same business model he applied to the…
Publication Date: 12/02/2011 Product ID: 1-429-217
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Fundación Paraguaya (A): The San Francisco School
by:
Paul Godfrey
This case focuses on Fundacion Paraguaya, a microfinance institution in Paraguay that helps primary and secondary schools become financially self-sufficient. Its most recent acquisition – an agricultural high school in…
Publication Date: 12/02/2011 Product ID: 1-429-216
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Kinder, Lydenberg, and Domini and Socially Responsible Investing
by:
Paul Godfrey
This case study tells the story of KLD Research & Analytics, which provided annual social responsibility ratings for over 3,000 companies, employed over 60 people, and was widely regarded as…
Publication Date: 12/02/2011 Product ID: 1-429-215
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Martin Burt: A Conversation with a Social Entrepreneur
by:
Paul Godfrey
This case provides students with an in-depth interview with Martin Burt, social entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of Fundacion Paraguaya. The case should be used in conjunction with the Fundacion Paraguaya…
Publication Date: 12/02/2011 Product ID: 1-429-214
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Procter & Gamble’s PUR Purifier of Water: How Global Corporate Philanthropy Builds Shareholder Value
Over the last ten years, Procter & Gamble has helped to distribute over 200 million PUR packets, packets that are typically used by people who must draw their water from…
Publication Date: 12/02/2011 Product ID: 1-429-201
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Building and Scaling a Cross-Sector Partnership: Oxfam and Swiss Re Empower Farmers in Ethiopia
by:
Jonathan Doh, Ted London
Winner of the 2012 Oikos Foundation Casewriting Competition. Swiss Re, a large global reinsurance company, has partnered with Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization, to provide the poor…
Publication Date: 03/23/2012 Product ID: 1-429-185
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The Dow Chemical Company: The Inseparability of Safety and Business Success
by:
WDI Publishing
It is 2005 and The Dow Chemical Company has attained most of the environmental, health, and safety (EH&S) goals laid out in its first EH&S 10-year plan, creating a library…
Publication Date: 01/31/2013 Product ID: 1-429-178
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TerraCycle: Turning Trash into Cash
by:
Stuart L. Hart
TerraCycle was founded in 2002 by Tom Szaky, a 20-year-old Princeton University dropout. The company’s flagship product, TerraCycle Plant Food, is liquefied worm poop made from worm-processed organic waste and…
Publication Date: 04/29/2009 Product ID: 1-429-176
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Monsanto Company (Spanish): Búsqueda de Sostenibilidad (B)
by:
Stuart L. Hart
Después de dos años de controversia en relación a sus cultivos genéticamente modificados y sus futuros planes de biotecnología en agricultura, Monsanto se enfrenta con el fracaso de una fusion…
Publication Date: 06/23/2010 Product ID: 1-429-094
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Monsanto Company (Spanish): Búsqueda de Sostenibilidad (A)
by:
Stuart L. Hart
Este caso explora la estrategia de negocios de la empresa Monsanto siguiendo principios de sostenibilidad y su consiguiente transicion de productor de quimicos a una gran compañia de “ciencias de…
Publication Date: 06/28/2010 Product ID: 1-429-093
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Kentucky Fried Chicken: Crisis Communication—Rat Trap!
by:
Glyn Atwal, Douglas Bryson
An isolated rat infestation in a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in New York City was filmed live on US television, setting off a media frenzy. Students must place themselves in…
Publication Date: 07/21/2010 Product ID: 1-429-078
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Women Entrepreneurs in Rwanda: Loans for the Lumberyard
by:
Etienne Musonera
This case was written about an alumnus of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative, which aims to bring high-quality business and management education to 10,000 underserved women around the world.…
Publication Date: 09/16/2010 Product ID: 1-429-071
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Women Entrepreneurs in Rwanda: Banana Wine by Coproviba
by:
Etienne Musonera
This case was written for a class in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative, which aims to bring high-quality business and management education to 10,000 underserved women around the world.…
Publication Date: 03/01/2010 Product ID: 1-429-070
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Naandi Foundation: Bringing Safe Water to India’s Villages and Communities
This case follows the development of the Naandi Safe Water Program from the view of Naandi’s chairman and founder, Dr. K. Anji Reddy. In 2002, Dr. Reddy saw a sign…
Publication Date: 01/04/2010 Product ID: 1-428-987
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Credit Cards for the Poor: HSBC in Sri Lanka
by:
Raed Elaydi
This case follows the vision of Dalshan Ismail, Executive Director of HSBC’s Sri Lankan credit card business for HSBC’s credit card venture in Sri Lanka. He realized that the bottom…
Publication Date: 01/31/2010 Product ID: 1-428-888
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SC Johnson and the Greenlist Opportunity
by:
Stuart L. Hart
SC Johnson, a leading consumer products goods company, developed a patented process, Greenlist, to assess the environmental impact of its raw materials. The case study takes the reader through SC…
Publication Date: 05/29/2009 Product ID: 1-428-778
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Western Union Company: A Case for Global Expansion
by:
Patricia Loubeau
The Western Union Company is the largest US-owned provider of money transfer services. Originally founded as a telegram company in 1884, the company went bankrupt in 1992 and two years…
Publication Date: 01/20/2015 Product ID: 1-428-773
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Trojan UV
by:
WDI Publishing
Russel Wisselink, a Senior Buyer for Trojan Technologies in London, Ontario, Canada, was working in crisis mode. Juntao Quartz Products, a Chinese company, the primary supplier of the custom quartz…
Publication Date: 10/01/2008 Product ID: 1-428-713
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Monsanto Company (B): Quest For Sustainability
by:
Stuart L. Hart
Following two years of sustained controversy over its genetically modified crops and its plans for the future of biotechnology in agriculture, Monsanto must face the significant failure of a planned…
Publication Date: 09/09/2008 Product ID: 1-428-689
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Monsanto Company (A): Quest For Sustainability
by:
Stuart L. Hart
This case explores Monsanto’s sustainability-based strategy and subsequent transition from a chemical company to a giant in the life sciences, particularly in the area of biotechnology. There are five sections…
Publication Date: 09/09/2008 Product ID: 1-428-688
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McDonald’s (B2): The Decision
by:
Stuart L. Hart
Case B2 is the third of part of the McDonald’s Case Series. It is a short summary of McDonald’s decision regarding the clamshells. It also highlights reactions to the decision…
Publication Date: 01/01/2008 Product ID: 1-428-687
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McDonald’s (C): Sustaining McDonald’s Environmental Success
by:
Stuart L. Hart
McDonald’s Case (C) is the fourth piece in the McDonald’s case series. It describes the organization’s response to the fact that in April 1993 another nonprofit environmental group, The Beyond…
Publication Date: 01/01/2008 Product ID: 1-428-679
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McDonald’s (B1): The Clamshell Controversy
by:
Stuart L. Hart
McDonald’s Case (B1) is the second piece in the McDonald’s case series. It describes the decision-making process and subsequent decisions that McDonald’s made regarding its polystyrene “clamshell” sandwich containers. Environmentally…
Publication Date: 01/01/2008 Product ID: 1-428-678
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McDonald’s (A): McDonald’s Environmental Strategy
by:
Stuart L. Hart
McDonald’s Case (A) is the first piece in the McDonald’s case series. It gives the background on McDonald’s and the organization’s environmental initiatives in the early 1990s. In particular, it…
Publication Date: 01/01/2008 Product ID: 1-428-677
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Note on the McDonald’s Environmental Cases
by:
Stuart L. Hart
This note, which is intended to accompany the McDonald’s case series, gives an overview of different methods for dealing with municipal solid waste. Facts and statistics concerning the most common…
Publication Date: 01/01/2008 Product ID: 1-428-676
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Note on Life-Cycle Analysis
by:
Stuart L. Hart
This note gives a general overview of Life-cycle analysis (LCA). As corporations seek to improve their environmental performance, they require new methods and tools. LCA is one such tool that…
Publication Date: 09/09/2008 Product ID: 1-428-675
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Weyerhaeuser Company: The Next 100 Years
Weyerhaeuser is the world’s largest private owner of standing softwood timber, North America’s largest producer of softwood lumber, and the world’s largest supplier of softwood pulp. The company had spent…
Publication Date: 09/09/2008 Product ID: 1-428-672
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DEI and Brand Marketing of a Women’s Off-Road Rally in Morocco’s Sahara Desert
by:
Lyn S. Amine
The sports events agency Maïenga, owned by two French women, operates off-road motor rallies in the Sahara Desert of Morocco. Its flagship event, the annual Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles du…
Publication Date: 11/16/2022 Product ID: 2-230-153
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Strategizing a Recipe for Success: Chef Fajer Al Mansoori Looks to Grow
Fajer Al Mansoori is a 38-year-old chef and food entrepreneur based in Manama, the capital of Bahrain. She dreams of doubling her revenues in the next two years and going…
Publication Date: 06/20/2023 Product ID: 3-275-023
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