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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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Raunchy E-mails, too Much Drinking and Dirty Dancing - Teaching Note: A trilogy of sexual harassment cases covering personal freedom, respect and decency
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-6-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision AnalysisThe document "Raunchy E-mails, Too Much Drinking and Dirty Dancing" presents three cases related to sexual harassment that occurred in a leading consulting firm, a retail company and a private bank, respectively. In the first case, a group of male consultants prepared an e-mail including the name, photo, and department affiliation of about 12 female colleagues and asking other people to evaluate the attractiveness of each photo i...Starting at €0.00
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Raunchy E-mails, Too much Drinking and Dirty Dancing: A trilogy of sexual harassment cases across personal freedom, respect and decency
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-175-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis"Raunchy E-mails, Too Much Drinking and Dirty Dancing" presents three sexual harassment-related cases which took place in a leading consulting firm, a retail company and a private bank, respectively. In the first case, a group of male consultants prepared an e-mail featuring the name, photo and department affiliation of about 12 female colleagues and asking other people to evaluate the attractiveness of each photo in order to obtain a "top ten"...Starting at €8.20
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Raunchy E-mails, Too much Drinking and Dirty Dancing: A trilogy of sexual harassment cases across personal freedom, respect and decency (Portuguese Version, Portugal)
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-175-PPBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis"Raunchy E-mails, Too Much Drinking and Dirty Dancing" presents three sexual harassment-related cases which took place in a leading consulting firm, a retail company and a private bank, respectively. In the first case, a group of male consultants prepared an e-mail featuring the name, photo and department affiliation of about 12 female colleagues and asking other people to evaluate the attractiveness of each photo in order to obtain a "top ten"...Starting at €8.20
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Addiopizzo Travel - Teaching Note: Fighting Mafia through market-based strategies
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, Tommaso; La Cara, BarbaraTeaching Note BET-14-EEntrepreneurshipThe case "Addiopizzo Travel" can be taught as a stand-alone case or as a complement and follow-up to the case titled "Addiopizzo: Mafia, Anti-Mafia or Hiding in the Grey Area" (BE-172-E). The case study traces the history of Addiopizzo Travel, a travel agency and tour operator founded in Sicily (Italy) in 2010 by three young social entrepreneurs previously involved in the activities of "Addiopizzo," an NGO devoted to the fight against mafia brib...Starting at €0.00
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Guidant Corporation: ¿Divulgar o no divulgar Dilemas en el sector de los marcapasos
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-168Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation es una empresa de reciente creación en el campo de la alta tecnología que se dedica a la fabricación de dispositivos médicos como marcapasos, desfibriladores y sistemas de endoprótesis coronarias. Hacia mediados de 2002, Guidant descubre que algunos de sus marcapasos y desfibriladores que ya se han vendido e implantado en pacientes presentaban fallos y podrían no enviar la descarga eléctrica cuando fuera necesario. La compañía...Starting at €8.20
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What Does It Mean Being a Decent Boss (B)
Ramus, Tommaso; Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-190-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn March 2007, less than one year after his appointment as CEO, René Obermann received an e-mail from a 48-year old technician working in the T-Com Berlin department. The letter was carbon copied to some members of the Board of Management, union representatives and some other employees. It rapidly spread throughout the organization and become viral in Germany. The following is an extract of the letter: Your continuous messages to the workforce wi...Starting at €5.74
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¿Tiene un precio la vida humana : Algunas consideraciones sobre el sector de la ingenería civil
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ruiz, José MaríaTechnical Note BEN-133Innovation and Change¿Tiene un precio la vida humana? Aunque la mayoría de la gente está de acuerdo en que la vida humana no debe tener un valor monetario, un examen crítico de los modelos adoptados por los legisladores (policy makers) y los profesionales en el campo de la ingeniería, y concretamente en algunas áreas del sector de la ingeniería civil, muestran cómo, a veces, éstos se ven obligados a poner un precio a la vida humana en los procesos de toma de decision...Starting at €8.20