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Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather
Gandhi, Vikram; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-318001-EFinanceIt is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a U.K.-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately-held U.K. company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally-friendly process. The end product looked, smelled and felt like natural leather. Scalable marketplace adoption of E-Leather's products looked promising, but was just that-promising. And t...Starting at €8.20
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Pi Investments
Gandhi, Vikram; He, TonyCase HBS-317039-EFinancePi was a large family office pioneering the concept of 100% portfolio impact investing. Tasked with preserving capital, generating moderate returns and advancing the family's social justice goals - Pi's Managing Directors had to identify appropriate products across asset classes. In this case, students will be required to assess an investment in HCAP Partners Fund III from the perspective of Pi and whether such an investment meets the family's co...Starting at €8.20
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Cataumet Boats, Inc., Teaching Note
Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Davis, MarkTeaching Note HBS-917510-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching note for case 917509.Starting at €0.00
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Cataumet Boats, Inc.
Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.; Davis, MarkCase HBS-917509-EService and Operations ManagementJaime Giancola, an MBA student, has recently completed an operations management course in which aggregate production planning (APP) was one of the topics. She believes that that her family's business, Cataumet Boats, which her grandparents started and which her mother and uncle now own, might benefit from applying APP concepts to identify the different ways they might schedule workers, which could be especially valuable during the peak demand sea...Starting at €8.20
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THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds
Gandhi, Vikram; Reimers Brumme, Caitlin Lindsay; Schwalb, NathanielCase HBS-819021-EFinanceAfter much internal debate, THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS of Denmark have decided to allocate a small percentage of their investment portfolio to impact investments. Cambridge Associates, one of the leading investment advisory firms in the world, has been engaged to assist them in developing and implementing an "impact strategy." VELUX only invests in funds (as opposed to direct investments) and must now decide on fund selection criteria and on specific ...Starting at €8.20
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Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network
Gandhi, Vikram; Reimers Brumme, Caitlin Lindsay; Barnett, JamesCase HBS-318004-EFinanceA team of investors at Omidyar Network explore two different investment possibilities in the budding financial inclusion space, using their investment framework to consider capital alternatives available for both investments, each of which carries highly divergent financial and impact potential.Starting at €8.20
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JANA Partners: Impact through Activism
Gandhi, Vikram; Reimers Brumme, Caitlin LindsayCase HBS-819073-EFinanceJana Partners, a well-known "activist" hedge fund has announced the launch of a new fund Jana Impact. The basic premise is that the fund will be able to generate superior returns by using Jana's activist approach with companies that are underperforming onStarting at €8.20
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Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network, Teaching Plan
Gandhi, Vikram; Barnett, JamesTeaching Note HBS-320018-EFinanceTeaching plan for case 318004.Starting at €0.00
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Rackspace Hosting in Late 2000
Heskett, James L.; Sasser, W. Earl, Jr.Case HBS-808166-EEntrepreneurshipThe leadership team of Rackspace, faced with accommodation of its service offering and dwindling financial reserves, decides to make customer focus the rallying cry of its new strategy. This short case was designed as the discussion igniter for a series of short video clips describing the shift to a more customer-focused approach.Starting at €8.20
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CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence
Gandhi, Vikram; Reimers, CaitlinCase HBS-819079-EEntrepreneurshipIn Spring of 2018, Chris Ailman, CIO of the $200 billion pension plan for California public school teachers (CalSTRS) was mandated by his board to "prioritize engagement with makers and retailers of firearms in California" following a series of gun-related tragedies in schools. While CalSTRS had a long history of engagement and even divestment, as a fiduciary for the retirement assets of current and future teachers, calls for values-motivated scr...Starting at €8.20