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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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Honey Care Africa (C): Growth Alternatives
Oana Branzei; Michael ValenteCase IVEY-9B07M024-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis is a supplement to Honey Care Africa (A): A Different Business Model.Starting at €5.74
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"Miracle on the Hudson" (C): Epilogue
Weeks, Jennifer; Howitt, Arnold; Leonard, DutchCase HBS-HKS715-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement for case HKS713Starting at €5.74
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Competing for Development (C): Success, Bittersweet
Oana Branzei; Samer AbdelnourCase IVEY-9B08M063-EStrategyThis supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur (A), product 9B08M061 provides a summary of the dynamic interaction between the key players from 2007 to 2008 and offers students a new decision point for how CHF Sudan could harness the momentum of change moving forward.Starting at €5.74
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City Water Tanzania (C): Striking a Deal
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M027B-EStrategyThis is a supplement to City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam, product #9B07M025 and is a two-part role-play. In this part (B) role-play, students take the position of Cliff Stone, Biwater's former director of sales for Africa and now chief executive officer of City Water's management.Starting at €5.74
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City Water Tanzania (C): The Private Sector Experiment
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M027A-EStrategyThis is a supplement to City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam, product #9B07M025 and is a two-part role-play. In this part (A) role-play, students take the position of Edward Lowassa, Tanzania's Minister of Water.Starting at €5.74
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Hurricane Katrina (C): Responding to an 'Ultra-Catastrophe' In New Orleans (Abridged)
Howitt, ArnoldCase HBS-HKS194-EStrategyOn Tuesday, August 23, 2005, meteorologists in the US National Weather Service spotted a tropical depression in the southeastern Bahamas. As it strengthened into a tropical storm, weather officials gave it a name, Katrina, and closely tracked it as it turned into a hurricane, crossing south Florida and then moving into the Gulf of Mexico. There, fed by the gulf's warm waters, Katrina turned into a monster: a "Category five" hurricane, with winds ...Starting at €5.74
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City Water Tanzania (B): Privatizing Dar es Salaam's Water Utility
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M026-EStrategyThis is a supplement to City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam, product #9B07M025. It details the terms of the lease contract with an international operator, Biwater, and discusses the alternatives that were considered and discarded, the bidding process, and the roles and motivations of the parties. The key questions revolve around a) the adequacy of the decision, b) the responsibility for the next steps and c) the mileston...Starting at €5.74