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Puma contra los gigantes: El ascenso de David
Fruechtnicht M.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1519StrategyA principios de 2007, por primera vez en los 13 años que llevaba al mando de Puma, Jochen Zeitz decidió respirar hondo y reflexionar sobre el giro radical hacia el éxito que había dado la compañía y, lo que es más importante: contemplar el camino que tenía por delante. Después de reinventarse, crear un nuevo segmento de mercado y demostrar que la compañía podía competir con su hermana mayor, Adidas, Puma se hallaba en una encrucijada. En la últim...Starting at €8.20
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Citigroup: Targeting Leadership in Global Growth
Lupu, Raluca; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1439-EStrategyIn 2002, Citigroup completed the integration of Banamex, whose acquisition in 2001 had made the company the largest corporate and retail bank in Mexico. The operations in Mexico generated more than US$1 billion in earnings in 2002, placing the country as Citigroup's most profitable outside the US, alongside Japan. However, while results were at top, competitors were starting to crowd in and rivalry between firms was starting to stiffen. In the ne...Starting at €8.20
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Merger of Three. The Integration of Allianz, AGF and Athena in Spain
Lupu, Raluca; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1404-EStrategyAt the end of 1997 Allianz, the German insurance group, acquired AGF, a key player in the French market. With this move Allianz not only reinforced its strategy of multilocality, but also added momentum to the ongoing consolidation process in the European and global insurance sector. In the course of the merger implementation process several issues appeared; among the most prominent, the integration of existing businesses (subsidiaries) in other ...Starting at €8.20
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Waste Concern: convertir un problema en un recurso
Mitchell, Jordan; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1502Entrepreneurship, StrategyEn septiembre de 2005, los cofundadores de Waste Concern, una organización dedicada al reciclaje de residuos en Bangladesh, consideraron realizar cambios en su modelo para que el Gobierno municipal aprobara su proyecto de construir una instalación de compostaje a gran escala. Desde su fundación en 1995, Waste Concern había estado siguiendo un modelo de compostaje descentralizado mediante el cual cada planta era una operación a pequeña escala que ...Starting at €8.20
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Sekem: liberando una visión. Un enfoque artístico de la iniciativa emprendedora
Seelos, Christian; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1466StrategyLa iniciativa Sekem retrata una serie de complejas circunstancias que enmarcan las decisiones de Sekem para crecer y desarrollarse a lo largo de su trayectoria histórica, su iniciativa de desarrollo integral tanto en la esfera social como en la económica y cultural. El caso documenta la historia de la iniciativa y expone los mayores integrantes y sus relaciones internas y externas. Sekem fue fundada por Ibrahim Abouleish, un egipcio que había est...Starting at €8.20
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The Freeplay Energy Group and Foundation (B)
Ganly, Kate; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1501-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and Change, StrategyCase B updates the original by two additional years. In this time the Freeplay Group undertakes an IPO, listing on the UK stock exchange as Freeplay Energy plc. The Freeplay Foundation continues to receive support from the new public company and expands its projects to bring communication and energy to the most "underdeveloped" areas of Africa but must also look elsewhere for support and funding. Freeplay Energy also undertakes significant expans...Starting at €5.74
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Entropy International. Enabling businesses to make a contribution to sustainable development
Seelos, Christian; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1454-EStrategyThis case documents the circumstances of managing the growth phase of a start-up company. Entropy International faces the unique challenges and opportunities of social entrepreneurship but also entrepreneurship in general. Founded by a visionary environmental activist in 1996 as an environmental consulting boutique in the United Kingdom, Entropy grew with the emerging needs of large multinational corporations to publicly report on and minimize th...Starting at €8.20
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The Freeplay Energy Group and Foundation (A)
Coles E.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1467-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Freeplay Energy Group was founded in 1995 to produce wind up radios. The company produced its first radios in 1996. It took its social responsibilities seriously from the beginning and in 1998 founded the Freeplay Foundation to enable the sustained delivery of radio information and education to the most vulnerable populations via self-powered radios. The company has transformed itself from a vertically integrated organization with internal ...Starting at €8.20
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Committee for Democracy in Information Technology (CDI)
Vergés S.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1453-EStrategyThis is the first of a case series on Social Entrepreneurship written in collaboration with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The Comite para Democratizaçao da Informática (CDI) was a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded by Rodrigo Baggio in Brazil in 1995. Its mission was to set up schools to teach computer skills to low-income communities so that slum residents could begin to move into the mainstream of society and...Starting at €8.20
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A New Model for the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Institute of OneWorld Health
Schoen, Oliver; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1480-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case introduces the Institute of OneWorld Health, a company dedicated to producing drugs for neglected diseases and the first non-profit pharmaceutical company in the world. Founded in 2000 by Dr. Victoria Hale, IOWH took expired and donated patent compounds and developed them through all the stages of clinical testing and approval into drugs to fight the world's most destructive diseases, usually occurring in Third World countries where per...Starting at €8.20