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Mekelle Farms: Poultry Entrepreneurship in Ethiopia
Lee, H; Kennedy, M; Elist, JCase SGSB-IDE05-EInnovation and ChangeAfter deciding to transform a former government-owned poultry farm in Ethiopia, two American business partners encounter challenges related to input costs, inventory management, delivery, government relations, and other key challenges that are common to entrepreneurs operating in an emerging market context. The partners identify Ethiopia as a country in which to build their business because of its favorable investment climate, and they decide to ...Starting at €8.20
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Latvia: Economic Strategy after EU Accession, Teaching Note
Porter, Michael E.; Ketels, Christian H.M.Teaching Note HBS-707524-EEconomicsTeaching note to 707515.Starting at €0.00
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Latvia: Economic Strategy after EU Accession
Porter, Michael E.; Ketels, Christian H.M.Case HBS-707515-EEconomicsDescribes the economic development of Latvia, a small eastern European country on the shores of the Baltic Sea, from regaining independence in 1991 to European Union (EU) accession in 2004 and is set on May 1st, 2004, the day Latvia became an EU member. Latvia had achieved strong growth since regaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. Describes Latvia's economic development over this period, discussing the economic policy efforts that ...Starting at €8.20
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Asia Optical: The Myanmar Decision
Roscini, Dante; Shih-ta Chen, Michael; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-714026-EEconomicsStarting at €8.20
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Asia Optical: The Myanmar Decision, Teaching Note
Roscini, Dante; Preble, MatthewTeaching Note HBS-717023-EEconomicsTeaching Note for case 714026.Starting at €0.00
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The Road to Mandalay: RMA Group in Myanmar
Reinert, Sophus A.; Fulwiler, MariaCase HBS-719003-EEconomicsStarting at €8.20
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Parex Banka: Issuing a 200 Million Bond
Basil A. Kalymon; Jordan MitchellCase IVEY-9B07N009-EFinance, StrategyAfter successfully issuing a €100 million Eurobond in 2005, executives at Parex Banka (Parex) in Riga, Latvia are considering issuing a second bond with a face value of €200 million and a term of 5 years. In planning the bond issue, the bank is debating the bond's characteristics, such as the currency (Euro versus U.S. dollar), the spread they would initially offer and how they would approach the meeting with potential investors. Students are tas...Starting at €8.20
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Hotel Latvia: Sell Out, Hang In or Partner
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B14M170-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThree friends have followed their entrepreneurial dream to build a five-star hotel in Liepaja, a seaside city in Latvia. After a few early profitable years, the hotel is struggling, due to the massive downturn in the Latvian economy as a result of the European Union financial crisis and slow recovery. The hotel has declined from generating an annual profit to now making a loss or barely breaking even. On several occasions, the co-owners have cons...Starting at €8.20
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Fallen Idol Aung San Suu Kyi & the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis
Varley, Pamela; Robichaud, ChristopherCase HBS-KS1277-EEconomicsSoon after Myanmar's longtime democracy crusader and opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was released from a long house arrest and elected to the country's parliament in 2012, intercommunal violence began to escalate in the western state of Rakhine between local Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims. Over the next five years, the long-persecuted Rohingya minority faced increasingly violent waves of attack, culminating in a humanitarian catastrophe in A...Starting at €8.20
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Getting Help to Victims of 2008 Cyclone Nargis: AmeriCares Engages with Myanmar's Military Government
Roman, Ophelia; Peterson, StephenCase HBS-HKS130-EThis case affords students of strategic management a rare inside look at the consequential political and logistical choices that international relief agencies must often make, at high speed, when responding to a humanitarian crisis. It traces the efforts of AmeriCares to find an effective way-in the midst of a tense international standoff-to work with the embattled and resistant military government of Myanmar in order to bring help to the country...Starting at €8.20