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Empowerment Through Integration: Scaling Up and Financial Sustainability
Alain Daou; Mohamad Alameh; Yassar NasserCase IVEY-9B18M139-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn early 2017, the chief executive officer of Empowerment through Integration, a not-for-profit organization based in the United States and also operating in Lebanon, wanted to scale up the organization’s social impacts and improve its financial sustainability. Empowerment through Integration was committed to breaking social stigmas against people with visual impairments and empowering them to reach their full potential; however, it faced financi...Starting at €8.20
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Chabros International Group: A World of Wood
Paul W. Beamish; Bassam FarahCase IVEY-9B10M100-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - MENA Business Cases Award, 2012 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. The Chabros International Group case examines how a Lebanese multinational wood company confronts a drastic drop in its largest subsidiary's sales after 2008's global economic crisis. Antoine Chami, Chabros's owner and president, was reviewing his company's 2009 end-of-year financial statements and, in particular, a...Starting at €8.20
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General Electric's Expansion in the Middle East
Assem Safieddine; Shadi Rhayem; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B14M141-EStrategyIn July 2012, a senior manager in the corporate strategy team of General Electric (GE) was wondering what changes he should recommend for its strategic plans in the MENAT region (the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and Pakistan). First, the senior corporate strategist wanted to get a better understanding of how regional management had succeeded in growing its business despite the barriers it had faced, such as political instability, difficultie...Starting at €8.20
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BLC Bank and the Quest for Women's Empowerment in MENA
Farah Matar; Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B15M106-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2010, the assistant general manager and head of strategic development at Lebanon’s BLC Bank attended the annual summit of the Global Banking Alliance for Women, a leading organization of financial institutions that drove the creation of women’s wealth worldwide. On her return to Beirut, she encouraged her bank to capitalize on the inclusion of women as a relevant differentiator from both a business and societal perspective. The result of resea...Starting at €8.20
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Souk El Tayeb: The Good Food Market in Lebanon
Dima Jamali; Haitham KhouryCase IVEY-9B11M111-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategySouk el Tayeb, Lebanon’s first weekly farmers’ market, and Tawlet, a farmers’ restaurant — the former adopting the legal structure of an NGO and the latter being an income-generating company — were joined by one vision to “celebrate food and traditions that unite communities and support small-scale farmers and producers and a culture of sustainable agriculture.” Souk el Tayeb’s founder, Kamal Mouzawak, first launched Souk el Tayeb in May 2004 in ...Starting at €8.20
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Château Ksara of Lebanon: Local Focus Versus Global Reach Trade-Off
Marina Apaydin; Maya Christina Noujaim; Charbel Ghossan; Miguel Manglano; Abdellah Laaouane; Yasmine JreissatiCase IVEY-9B17M186-EStrategyIn December 2016, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Château Ksara, the largest and most renowned wine producer in Lebanon, was analyzing the company’s sales volume and product availability around Lebanon. To the CEO’s surprise, a popular fine dining establishment in the city did not include any of Château Ksara’s wines. Frustrated, he started wondering what could have been the reasons for the omission. Was the quality of wine giving competitor...Starting at €8.20
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Shankaboot: Extending the Web Series from Lebanon to Other Arab Countries
Lina Daouk-Oyry; Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B13M106-EStrategyShankaboot, the world’s first Arabic-language web series, was created in Lebanon as a social development project carrying forward the following message: “to defy traditions and explore taboos. The overarching vision was to use the web to create a forum for raising awareness, sharing alternative viewpoints and generating constructive discussions about the social issues that were often experienced by Arab youth, but which no one dared to speak up a...Starting at €8.20
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Inaash: Bridging the Chasm Between Non-Profit Objectives and Long-Term Financial Profitability
Bettina BastianCase IVEY-9B14M004-EStrategyInaash is a Lebanese non-profit organization that supports the development of Palestinians in refugee camps. Inaash has created jobs for thousands of women in the camps through the production of traditional Palestinian embroidery items such as shawls and dresses, which the association sells in its shop and at exhibitions. The organization has also been successful in creating valuable social infrastructure in many camps through offering medical su...Starting at €8.20
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Partnership for Lebanon and Cisco Systems: Promoting Development in a Post-war Context
Dima JamaliCase IVEY-9B11M050-EStrategyThe project manager of the Partnership for Lebanon (PFL) and Cisco Systems’s regional director of corporate affairs for the Middle East and Africa met in September 2009, three years after the PFL was first initiated. The meeting primarily revolved around the challenge of sustainability and what useful suggestions they could put forward to their partners to ensure that the projects initiated through the PFL were not dependent on the continuous inv...Starting at €8.20
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Al Baba Sweets: An Expansion Opportunity
Marina Apaydin; Ahmad Badran; Maya Noujaim; Ghida El Baba; Antoine SabbaghCase IVEY-9B19M121-EStrategyIn 2018, Al Baba Sweets was a major player in the Arabic sweets and confectionery industry in Lebanon. However, in the midst of a rough patch in the country’s economy, the company was suffering from decreasing revenues. Any major decision concerning the fStarting at €8.20