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Souq.com's CEO on Building an E-Commerce Powerhouse in the Middle East
Mouchawar, RonaldoArticle HBS-R1705A-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2005, when Souq.com was founded, the Middle East had tremendous potential for e-commerce: Its total population was more than 350 million, half of whom were younger than 25. But the region was highly fragmented in terms of laws and customs, logistics, and payment infrastructure. Mouchawar tells how Souq grew from auction website to B2C-only business by enabling alternative payment methods and managing delivery in a region where basic logistics ...Starting at €8.20
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Innovación responsable
Calleja, RicardoTechnical Note BEN-142Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeLos cambios tecnológicos tienen, cada vez más, a las empresas como protagonistas. Un aspecto clave de la responsabilidad de los directivos hoy en día es la responsabilidad en el ámbito de la innovación tecnológica. Resulta necesario ponderar con realismo las expectativas que generan los cambios tecnológicos, para valorar de un modo justo las aportaciones de la innovación, su influencia en la configuración de las mentalidades y estilos de vida, y ...Starting at €8.20
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Disolución de los límites entre las organizaciones con ánimo y sin ánimo de lucro:el modelo de la empresa social
Ramus, Tommaso; Vaccaro, AntoninoTechnical Note BEN-132Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipEn esta nota se examina la progresiva convergencia entre los "tradicionales" sectores orientados al negocio y los orientados a lo social/sin ánimo de lucro, y, contextualmente, también el surgimiento de un nuevo modelo de negocio: las empresas sociales. Éstas son organizaciones que combinan las lógicas comercial y social de un modo sin precedentes.Starting at €8.20
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Responsible Innovation
Calleja, RicardoTechnical Note BEN-142-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeTechnological changes increasingly have companies in a leading role. A key aspect of managerial responsibility today is the responsibility for technological innovation. It is necessary to consider realistically the expectations that technological changes generate, in order to assess fairly the contributions of innovation, its influence on the configuration of mentalities and lifestyles, and the implications of technological changes for the distri...Starting at €8.20
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Fashion2Go: Just Another Fashion E-Tailer
Aditya Kumar Banerjee; Rajesh PillaniaCase IVEY-9B15M127-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2014, as large investments poured into the e-commerce space in India, there was a general expectation that the online retail (e-tail) industry was heading toward a consolidation that would squeeze out smaller players. While e-tailers in India focused on following a marketplace model and developing a brand for their online market platforms, fashion2go created a product brand that targeted a very specific segment of young customers. Fashion2go w...Starting at €8.20
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Blurring the Boundaries Between For Profit and Nonprofit Organizations: The Social Enterprises' Model
Ramus, Tommaso; Vaccaro, AntoninoTechnical Note BEN-132-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipThis case study discusses the progressive convergence between the "traditional" business-oriented and the nonprofit/social sectors and, contextually, the emergence of a new business model, i.e., the social enterprise. Social enterprises are organizations that combine the commercial and social logics in unprecedented ways.Starting at €8.20
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Embedding Sustainability: Refreshing First Coffee at Darden
Brownlee, E. Richard II; Elias, Allison; Davis, Charles; Margolis, BenCase DARDEN-ENT-0199-EEntrepreneurshipThe associate director of the sustainability programs at the Darden School of Business was well aware that much of Darden’s solid waste was made up of the disposable cups used for its daily First Coffee event and that somehow First Coffee needed to be refreshed. There had to be a better way to serve coffee and tea to a community of individuals without using disposable cups.Starting at €8.20
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The E-Line Cityboard
Soler, Edi; Peñalva, FernandoCase C-784-EAccounting and Control, EntrepreneurshipSix months after incorporating the company, the two founders of the firm E-Line Cityboard Supply Ltd. (ELC) were preparing the first Board of Directors meeting. ELC was a London-based distributor and online retailer of the E-Line Cityboard, a portable and rechargeable battery-powered self-balancing wheeled board, commonly referred to in the market as a "hoverboard." Increased competition and legislation prohibiting the use of hoverboards in publi...Starting at €8.20
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EasyLife: Developing a Regional E-Commerce Platform
Miao Cui; Xin Li; Yan Zhao; Sitara Aziz; Yupan Guo; Linhai GuoCase IVEY-9B17M032-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAfter several years of effort, Dalian Zhongding Information Co. (DZI) had become the leading prepaid card distributor in Liaoning Province. When government regulations and the rise of online third-party payment options sent the prepaid card business into decline, DZI transformed itself into an online intermediary by building a regional e-commerce platform offering fast home delivery, mainly of supermarket products. Despite its marketing efforts, ...Starting at €8.20
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Alibaba Group: Fostering an E-commerce Ecosystem
Seung Ho Park; Ziqian (Stella) ZhaoCase IVEY-9B16M217-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2014, Alibaba Group (Alibaba), the largest e-commerce platform operator in China, boasted in its New York Stock Exchange prospectus about its e-commerce ecosystem, which was being built over time. Alibaba’s chairman and chief executive officer declared that the company’s mission was to “make it easy to do business anywhere.” However, the ecosystem, which was well suited for people’s Internet habits of the past, would not likely be up-to-date i...Starting at €8.20