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M e Terra and Unilever (A)
Paine, Lynn Sharp; Costas, Ruth; Zogbi, PriscillaCase HBS-320075-EKnowledge and CommunicationThe case concerns the sale of Mae Terra, one of Brazil's leading brands for packaged organic foods, to the consumer goods giant Unilever in 2017. Working with Unilever management, Mae Terra's CEO Alexandre Borges must determine whether and how to keep Mae Terra's B Certification, which attests to its commitment to having a positive social and environmental impact, and what internal governance mechanisms will enable MaeTerra to maintain its missio...Starting at €8.20
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M e Terra and Unilever (A) (Portuguese version)
Paine, Lynn Sharp; Costas, Ruth; Zogbi, PriscillaCase HBS-321P03Knowledge and CommunicationThe case concerns the sale of Mae Terra, one of Brazil's leading brands for packaged organic foods, to the consumer goods giant Unilever in 2017. Working with Unilever management, Mae Terra's CEO Alexandre Borges must determine whether and how to keep Mae Terra's B Certification, which attests to its commitment to having a positive social and environmental impact, and what internal governance mechanisms will enable MaeTerra to maintain its missio...Starting at €8.20
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M e Terra and Unilever (B) (Portuguese version)
Paine, Lynn Sharp; Costas, Ruth; Cal, MarianaCase HBS-322P01Knowledge and CommunicationUnilever is making strides to integrate the operations of Mae Terra-one of Brazil's leading brands for packaged organic foods-into its own structures, after acquiring the company in 2017. Mae Terra's CEO, Alexandre Borges, must decide whether to implement his original plan as written into the purchase and sales agreement to create an advisory board to help ensure that the company maintain its mission, values and practices as part of a volume-driv...Starting at €5.74
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Weber Shandwick: The Client Relationship Leader Program
Eccles, Robert G.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-408077-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2002 Weber Shandwick, a leading global public relations agency, instituted a Client Relationship Leader (CRL) Program for its top 32 global accounts. The purpose of the program is to ensure that all of the firm's resources across geographies, practice areas, and specialty areas are coordinated and effectively delivered to Weber Shandwick's most important clients. Each of these clients is assigned a "Client Relationship Leader" and the case dis...Starting at €8.20
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Nestle's Creating Shared Value Strategy
Porter, Michael E.; Kramer, Mark R.; Herman, Kerry; McAra, SarahCase HBS-716422-EStrategyThis case considers Nestl 's creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In the packaged food and beverage industry, pressure had mounted since the 1990s to improve supply chain sustainability and provide healthier, more natural foods, leading to consolidation and causing sales to decline in the 2010s. With 150 years' experience in the industry, Nestl had transformed i...Starting at €8.20
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Yara International: Africa Strategy
Porter, Michael E.; Kramer, Mark R.; Ramirez-Vallejo, Jorge; Herman, KerryCase HBS-715402-EStrategyLeading fertilizer producer Yara International demonstrates the concept of creating shared value through the Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative, which brought together multiple organizations to enhance agricultural development in rural regions.Starting at €8.20
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Vita: Cosmetics in the Nordics
Narayandas, Das; Palepu, Krishna G.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-516013-EVita is a Norwegian cosmetics retailer owned by FSN Capital, a Scandinavian private equity company. The company has a strong market position in Norway. The case focuses on two strategic issues: how to develop an e-commerce strategy to supplement the company's traditional retail strategy, and how best to grow the company in Sweden. While both of these are potentially important future growth drivers, they also entail large investments in new capabi...Starting at €8.20
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The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff
Groysberg, Boris; Herman, Kerry; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-420025-ELeadership and People ManagementTeach this case online with new suggestions added to the Teaching Note. The case highlights the challenges and successes LAX CEO Deborah Flint and Board Chair Sean Burton have achieved from Flint's arrival in 2015 to December 2019. It explores issues of leadership and change management in a highly complex environment: LAX Airport. Chair of LAX Board Sean Burton and LAX CEO Deborah Flint have made progress on streamlining and modernizing LAX's...Starting at €8.20
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Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011
Applegate, Lynda M.; Herman, Kerry; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-814009-EEntrepreneurshipMobile broadband carriers provide network access to the Internet for a range of devices (typically portable or mobile), including consumer devices such as smartphones, tablets and E-Readers, but also a host of new emerging devices. Mobile broadband networks enable data to travel in packets over telecommunication (telecom) companies' wireless (or cellular) networks. The number of worldwide mobile cellular subscriptions reached 6 billion in 2011, r...Starting at €8.20
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Susie Mulder at NIC+ZOE
Fubini, David G.; Margolis, Joshua D.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-415043-ELeadership and People ManagementSusie Mulder must decide how to lead NIC+ZOE-the women's apparel brand she had recently joined as CEO-from its start-up phase into a disciplined growth phase. With growing revenues, a successful product line, and savvy private equity investors, NIC+ZOE seems perfectly positioned for growth, but the company is struggling to execute efficiently, and senior managers are torn about a key decision: whether to go into e-commerce or not.Starting at €8.20