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E+Co: The Path to Scale (B)
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M055-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis B case presents a conversation between E+Co's co-founders and an employee in Latin America who had raised the tough question of scale at E+Co's 2006 annual retreat. One of the co-founders' response for getting E+Co 10 times more impactful in emerging economies was to adopt what he called a "strategy of wedges." Also presented is a set of complementary strategies that together could help achieve steady local impact and rapid growth. The conve...Starting at €5.74
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E+Co: A Tipping Point for Clean Energy Entrepreneurship (A)
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M054-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case describes E+Co's approach to promoting clean energy entrepreneurship in developing countries and its current strategic challenge; how to scale up its business model to reach 100 million unserved or underserved people in the developing world by 2020. In the last 12 years E+Co was successful at demonstrating and validating an "enterprise centered model" which offered reliable access and improved energy efficiency to the poor in emerging e...Starting at €8.20
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A Model of Clean Energy Entrepreneurship in Africa: E+Co's Path to Scale
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M059-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe founder and executive director of E+Co faces the challenge of ten-fold growth and reviews the core parts of the company's innovative business model, the changes in the energy markets around the world, and the rationale for local solutions to energy scarcity and inefficiency. Also presented is a set of entrepreneurial growth strategies that preserve the core of the model - i.e., simultaneously tackling energy poverty and energy waste, and brin...Starting at €8.20
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The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (E)
Lorsch, Jay W.Case HBS-411005-ELeadership and People ManagementDow completed the acquisition of Rohm and Haas and escaped a battle in a Delaware courtroomStarting at €5.74
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CEO Evaluation at Dayton Hudson (Spanish version)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Sailer, James E.Case HBS-408S14Leadership and People ManagementDescribes the Dayton Hudson CEO evaluation process, one of the most intensive in corporate America today. The board of directors' role in the evaluation is examined, as is the question of whether the Dayton Hudson CEO evaluation process should serve as a model for other corporations.Starting at €8.20
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El Consejo de General Mills y la Dirección Estratégica
Lorsch, Jay W.; Sailer, James E.Case HBS-415S18StrategyExamina los Molinos Junta General de papel de Gestión en la empresa conjunta de General Mills con Nestlé S.A. a los cereales vender fuera de América del Norte. Se plantea la cuestión más general de la función apropiada para el consejo de administración en la formulación de estrategias.Starting at €8.20
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Hess Corporation
Lorsch, Jay W.; Durante, KathleenCase HBS-413126-ELeadership and People ManagementOn January 29, 2013, Elliott Management, a hedge fund run by Paul E. Singer that owned 4.5% of Hess Corporation stock, put forward a slate of five independent directors it wanted elected to improve the company's performance. Elliott argued that Hess lacked focus and was distracted by ventures outside its core exploration and production business. Further it argued that John Hess, CEO and son of the founder, of being more interested in "maintaining...Starting at €8.20
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United Rentals (B) (Spanish Version)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Durante, KathleenCase HBS-414S09Leadership and People ManagementPara maximizar su eficacia, los casos de color deben imprimirse en color. En abril de 2012, Jenne Britell, el Presidente del Consejo de Administración de United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) estaba preparando sus notas para un próximo encuentro de los accionistas. Fue una reunión a diferencia de otras reuniones que había presidido. Accionistas estaban a punto de votar sobre una transacción que fue quizás el último cumplimiento de la visión original d...Starting at €5.74
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Goldman Sachs Principles
Lorsch, Jay W.; Durante, KathleenCase HBS-412148-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Why Good Governance Matters
Lorsch, Jay W.; Canals, Jordi; Campa, Jose Manuel; Ormazabal, Gaizka; McCall, Allan L.Dossier DOS-21-EAccounting and Control, Corporate Governance, StrategyBoards need to close the rifts left by the crisis and be open to change, for the long-term success of business.Starting at €15.00