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L'Atelier Art Lounge: Times of Uncertainty
Randa Salamoun; Bettina BastianCase IVEY-9B14M139-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOn January 31, 2014, the founder and chief executive officer of L’Atelier Art Lounge, an art workshop with branches in Bahrain and Lebanon, faces numerous challenges: not only whether to grow the business but how to achieve a reasonable work-life balance. Political instability associated with the Arab Spring led her to close one of her shops in Bahrain, but she went ahead with opening a second in Beirut where there are few leisure activities avai...Starting at €8.20
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Partners In Health: HIV Care in Rwanda
Porter, Michael E.; Lee, Scott; Rhatigan, Joseph; Kim, Jim YongCase HBS-709474-EStrategyIn 2005, Partners In Health (PIH) was invited by the Rwandan Ministry of Health to assume responsibility for the management of public health care in two rural districts in Eastern Rwanda and create an HIV treatment program at these sites. PIH successfully implemented a comprehensive program focusing on 4 principles: health systems improvement, HIV prevention and care, accompaniment, and social and economic support. By January 2007, the Rwinkwavu ...Starting at €8.20
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2b Design: A Creative Social Business in Lebanon
Dima Jamali; Alexandra TaraziCase IVEY-9B11M097-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe year 2006 marked the beginning of 2b Design, a social business in Lebanon that specialized in creating handmade furniture and decorative pieces. Raja Moubarak and his wife, Benedicte de Blavous, created their business venture around a focused social mission to preserve disappearing art, architecture, and heritage through artistic creations and employing marginalized people, particularly the handicapped and unemployable. By collecting and usin...Starting at €8.20
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Doing Business in Kigali, Rwanda
Zelleke, Andy; Schlesinger, Leonard A.; Armerding, Pippa Tubman; Lawal, WaleCase HBS-323089-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Rwanda. It highlights Rwanda's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2023 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main obstacles faced by businesses operating in the country, high transportation costs, some of the most expensive electricity tariffs in sub-Saharan Africa and high levels of government burea...Starting at €8.20
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Financing Anghami's Growth
Nanda, Ramana; Kuzucu, ErenCase HBS-819033-EEntrepreneurshipIn December 2012, less than two years into the founding of their music-streaming platform Anghami, cofounders Elie Habib and Eddy Maroun found themselves evaluating an unorthodox term sheet. Habib and Maroun needed to make a decision vis- -vis the proposal put forth by the MBC Group, the region's largest media network. The offer was a media-for-equity deal, which would provide Anghami with advertising towards the media giant's millions of viewer...Starting at €8.20
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Porto Adriatico, Teaching Note
Segel, Arthur ITeaching Note HBS-214053-EFinanceTeaching Note to the Porto Adriatico Case, HBS No. 213024.Starting at €0.00
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African Entrepreneurship: Weighing Adventure Travel Business Opportunities
Shreshthi Mehta, Marilyn AnthonyCase IVEY-W31908-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIt was June 2021 and the international tourism industry was beginning to show signs of revival after the COVID-19 global pandemic. Small business owner Tony Byarugaba was surveying the scenic grounds surrounding his tourist lodge in Uganda. Byarugaba had built his enterprise by offering international clients a superior African vacation that included Uganda and the neighbouring countries of Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of t...Starting at €8.20
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Líbano: la reconstrucción económica de la posguerra
Talamàs Vilardaga, Eduard; Rifai, Joanna; Saade, JessicaCase ECON-427EconomicsLíbano -un país mediterráneo de casi siete millones de habitantes- sufre una de las peores crisis económicas jamás vistas en el mundo. La situación combina una severa crisis bancaria, de deuda y cambiaria con la crisis de los refugiados sirios, la pandemia de COVID-19, las secuelas de una explosión catastrófica en el puerto de Beirut y una parálisis política extrema. La libra libanesa -vinculada oficialmente al dólar estadounidense desde 1998- se...Starting at €8.20
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Maliks: Franchising the Brand
Sana El HajjCase IVEY-9B20M168-EStrategyMaliks, a major stationery retailer and provider of photocopy and printing services, had operated in Beirut, Lebanon, for over 25 years. The company’s founder was considering the most suitable strategy for his goal of 100 branches by 2020. He was assessinStarting at €8.20
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Sawdust, Co.
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Murty S. Kopparthi; Chris Janssen; Salima Ladhani; Jamie McKeownCase IVEY-9B15M034-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn May 2013, the owner of Sawdust, Co., a small woodworking business outside Kigali, Rwanda, has to decide on a new strategic direction for his company while not compromising its past success. He had started the company in 2007 with the goal of revolutionizing the sawdust industry in his country while also promoting social welfare in the region by offering employment to both survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 genocide. Although the company ha...Starting at €8.20