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Guidant Corporation (A, B and C) - Teaching Note: Don't Get a Heart Attack! Dificult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-2-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeTeaching Note for Guidant Corporatiion (A), (B), (C): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm.Starting at €0.00
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Guidant Corporation (C): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-171-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation is an high tech star up. After a couple of years of activities, it launches new high tech products such as pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, etc. After some time Guidant's top management discovers that one of its products, implanted in 24.000 patients, has a serious defect. After the death of a patient due to the fault of a Guidant's product, the firm enter into fire. Case C provides the epilogue of the long crisis.Starting at €5.74
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Kiva (A, B and C) - Teaching Note
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-11-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva is a 501(3) nonprofit organization founded in the late 2004 by two Stanford graduate, Matt Flannery and his wife Jessica Jackley. Inspired by a lecture of the Nobel prize Muhammad Yunus, Matt and Jessica decided to use their spare time to create a micro-lending organization capable to leverage the potential of internet-based technologies. The original idea associated with KIVA business model is pretty simple: small entrepreneurs located in ...Starting at €0.00
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Guidant Corporation (C): "¡No sufras un ataque al corazón!": decisiones difíciles en una empresa líder en la fabricación de marcapasos
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-171Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation es una startup de alta tecnología que, tras un par de años de actividad, lanza productos nuevos, como marcapasos, desfibriladores implantables, etc. Después de un tiempo, la dirección de Guidant descubre que uno de sus productos, implantado en 24.000 pacientes, presenta graves defectos. Tras la muerte de un paciente por el fallo de un producto Guidant, la empresa se encuentra en una situación peligrosa, por lo que el caso C of...Starting at €5.74
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Kiva (C): Responses to a legitimacy threat
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-185-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva is a nonprofit organization founded in late 2004 by two Stanford graduates, Matt Flannery and his wife Jessica Jackley. Inspired by a lecture given by the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, Matt and Jessica decided to use their spare time to create a micro-lending organization capable of leveraging the potential of Internet-based technologies. The original idea associated with KIVA's business model is pretty simple: small entrepreneurs in emergi...Starting at €5.74
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Kiva (C): Respuestas a las críticas sobre su legitimidad
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-185Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva es una organización sin ánimo de lucro regulada por el artículo 501(3) del Código Tributario Interno (Internal Revenue Code, IRC) y fundada en 2004 por Matt Flannery y su esposa, Jessica Jackley, dos graduados de Stanford. Matt y Jessica, inspirados por una charla del premio nobel de la paz Muhammad Yunus, decidieron usar su tiempo libre para crear una organización dedicada a los microcréditos capaz de aprovechar el potencial de las tecnolog...Starting at €5.74
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Agricultural Revolution without a Land Revolution: the Megafarms of CP Group
Kirby, William C.; Hua Dai, NancyCase HBS-316150-EThis case describes the megafarm model launched by the CP group as part of their efforts to ensure the safety and quality of their supply chain of agricultural products (particularly, eggs) in China while also promoting the welfare of Chinese farmers. This model was developed in close partnership with the local government, and received financing support from a local bank. The case asks students to discuss the potential for scaling this model acro...Starting at €8.20
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Yili Group: Building a Global Dairy Company
Kirby, William C.; Hua Dai, NancyCase HBS-317003-EStrategyFrom its humble beginnings as a local Chinese dairy company, the Inner Mongolia Yili Group has become one of the largest dairy companies in the world. To achieve this Yili has aggressively expanded its footprint overseas including building the world's largest integrated dairy production base in New Zealand and forming R&D partnerships in Europe and North America. As the company continues its growth in the context of a slowing Chinese economy, how...Starting at €8.20
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Whirlpool Corp.: Structuring the Deal to Acquire Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company
Esty, Benjamin C.; Hua Dai, NancyCase HBS-216019-EFinanceIan Lee, Whirlpool's VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer named Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company (Hefei Sanyo), for almost six months when suddenly Hefei Sanyo's stock price jumped 25% in the first two weeks of May 2013. The sudden price increase not only increased the likely acquisition price for an ownership stake in Hefei Sanyo, but also m...Starting at €8.20
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Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise
Chu, Michael; Kirby, William C.; Hua Dai, Nancy; Wang, YuanzhuoCase HBS-318078-EEconomicsThis case tells the story of how Wang Minghui, Chairman of Yunnan Baiyao Group since 1999, transformed a single-product traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) state-owned enterprise (SOE) into a major diversified consumer health player in China's highly competitive fast-moving consumer goods market. The case also traces the development of the company from a private business to an state-owned enterprise (SOE) and then to a SOE under mixed state-privat...Starting at €8.20