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Be Clear About How Your Team Works: Foster the Right Team Culture-Why Effective Team Management Is Key to Becoming a Great Boss
Hill, Linda A.; Lineback, KentBook Chapter HBS-7323BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationYour team's culture, like the infrastructure of a society, makes productive work possible. If you get the culture wrong, nothing your team undertakes is likely to go smoothly. In this chapter, authors Linda Hill and Kent Lineback describe four critical elements of team culture that you, as a good boss striving to be a great one, must make sure your team clearly understands: 1) Individual roles-who does what, and how each role contributes to your ...Starting at €8.20
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Vegpro Group: Growing in Harmony, Teaching Note
Bell, David E.; Shelman, MaryTeaching Note HBS-508106-EMarketingTeaching Note for [508-001].Starting at €0.00
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Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar, Teaching Note
Kramer, Mark R.; Porter, Michael E.Teaching Note HBS-719426-EStrategyTeaching note for case 715411.Starting at €0.00
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Vegpro Group: Growing in Harmony
Bell, David E.; Milder, Brian; Shelman, Mary L.Case HBS-508001-EMarketingVegpro, a horticulture company, is Kenya's largest exporter of fresh vegetables and flowers to top supermarkets in the U.K. and Europe. In 2007, Vegpro's business is threatened by growing consumer concern about the environmental impact of food production and transport, including "food miles". The case describes the company's growth, which includes the use of owned land and outgrowers for production, the addition of value-added processing to obtai...Starting at €8.20
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Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar
Porter, Michael E.; Kramer, Mark R.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-715411-EStrategyLate in 2013, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez was considering how and whether to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India, while expanding access to medicine and health information to millions of Indian villagers.Starting at €8.20
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Diageo: Innovating for Africa, Teaching plan
Bell, David E.; McLoughlin, Damien P.; Shelman, Mary; Otazo, AndrewTeaching Note HBS-515056-EStrategyThis teaching plan is designed to help students understand the challenges and opportunities of launching products and building businesses in developing markets.Starting at €0.00
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Vegpro Group: crecer en armonía
Bell, David E.; Milder, Brian; Shelman, Mary L.Case HBS-508S19MarketingVegpro, una empresa de horticultura, es el mayor exportador de verduras frescas y flores a los mejores supermercados en el Reino Unido y Europa de Kenia. En 2007, el negocio de Vegpro se ve amenazada por la creciente preocupación de los consumidores sobre el impacto ambiental de la producción de alimentos y el transporte, incluidos los "food miles". El caso describe el crecimiento de la compañía, que incluye el uso de la tierra y la propiedad de ...Starting at €8.20
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Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (A)
Ashraf, Nava; Shah, Neil Buddy; Gordon, RachelCase HBS-910001-EKaren Levy and her colleague, Margaret Ndanyi, have spent the last six months planning and preparing for a national Kenyan program to target school children most at risk for parasitic worm infection. One week after its launch, the program seemed to be going well but Ndanyi and Levy knew that it still needed to be administered in almost 40 districts at thousands of schools. They wondered: Would they meet their goal of deworming over three million ...Starting at €8.20
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The Kiri Group: A Social Enterprise Tackling Poverty in Kenya
Yamlaksira S. Getachew; Ivan Liu; Bridget NamubiruCase IVEY-W25472-EStrategyMakena Wanjiru, chair of Kiri Mount Kenya Conservation Network and Resource Centre (Kiri), wondered whether turning Kiri’s loans business into a co-operative bank would be in the group’s best interest. The challenge was to convince the rest of the board members of the idea. The board of directors would meet on July 18, 2019. Wanjiru had to draft a report before then explaining how the idea was consistent with the group’s current strategy and woul...Starting at €8.20
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Microfinance and the Kipsigis of Southwest Kenya
Glenn Brophey; Robin WiszowatyCase IVEY-9B08M059-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA group of business students and their professor travel to rural Kenya to work with Free The Children (FTC), an in-situ, non-governmental organization (NGO) that is focused on generational social change through education for children. This Canadian NGO has had considerable success in meeting this original objective and now sees health care and economic development concerns as being the next barriers to expansion of its educational thrust for the ...Starting at €8.20