This website uses technical, customisation and analytical cookies, both first-party and third-party, to anonymously facilitate browsing and analyse statistics on use of the website. Learn more
Search results
-
The Art of Social Entrepreneurship: Dakshina Chitra and Madras Crafts Foundation (MFC) in India
Oana Branzei; Sonia MehrotraCase IVEY-9B12C005-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe case traces the milestones of a 26-year history of a social entrepreneur creating a social enterprise, Madras Craft Foundation (MCF). The story leads up to a three-decade retrospective on the role social ventures play in our lives. Based on the entrepreneur’s critical reflection, the case shows how the paths of the social entrepreneur and the social enterprise became closely interwoven. After MCF had been self-sufficient for three years, the ...Starting at €8.20
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
A Strategic Approach to Sustainability
Rosenberg, MikeArticle ART-2850-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, StrategyThis article explores how senior managers might choose to address the challenge of environmental sustainability, not just for the sake of it being a moral imperative, but to perform their fiduciary responsibilities and to prepare their companies for the disruptive changes that the future holds. Given the gulf between how senior managers perceive the world and how activists, journalists and legislators see it, the path toward better environmental ...Starting at €8.20
-
Seis estrategias para afrontar la sostenibilidad
Rosenberg, MikeArticle ART-2850Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, StrategyLa intención de este artículo es ayudar a los altos directivos a afrontar el reto de la sostenibilidad ambiental, no tanto por deber moral como para ejercer sus responsabilidades fiduciarias y preparar a sus empresas para los cambios disruptivos del futuro. Dado el abismo que les separa de activistas, periodistas y legisladores en su percepción del mundo, la elección de la estrategia más adecuada para mejorar el rendimiento ambiental se antoja co...Starting at €8.20
-
Viaje al futuro con la planificación de escenarios
Rosenberg, MikeArticle ART-2079StrategyAunque los planificadores suelen utilizarlos para sus estimaciones de resultados, los métodos de previsión convencionales tienen importantes limitaciones y no son una guía fiable para el largo plazo. En su lugar, el autor recomienda la planificación de escenarios como un método superior para vislumbrar el entorno de negocio en el futuro y tomar mejores decisiones estratégicas. A partir de la experiencia de Shell en esta área, expone un sencillo p...Starting at €8.20
-
Tres claves para blindar la cadena de suministro internacional
Rosenberg, MikeArticle ART-3095Service and Operations Management, StrategyEn un mundo con una estructura geopolítica cada vez más inestable, los directivos pueden sentirse poco preparados para gestionar atentados terroristas, disturbios y otros acontecimientos capaces de interrumpir la cadena de suministro y poner en riesgo las operaciones. Y es que, pese al aumento de las tensiones geopolíticas y de la fragilidad de las cadenas de suministro, los equipos directivos parecen prestar escasa atención a tales amenazas. En ...Starting at €8.20
-
3 Keys to Shockproof Your Global Supply Chain
Rosenberg, MikeArticle ART-3095-EService and Operations Management, StrategyAs the world shifts to a less stable geopolitical structure, executives may find themselves ill-equipped to handle critical events, from terrorist attacks to civil unrest, which could disrupt supply chains and put operations at risk. Despite growing tensions in the world and the increasing fragility of global supply chains, management teams don't seem to pay sufficient attention to geopolitical threats, for a variety of reasons. This article expl...Starting at €8.20
-
Using Scenarios to Plan for Tomorrow
Rosenberg, MikeArticle ART-2079-EStrategyWhile business planners often resort to forecasting to estimate outcomes at some future point in time, the author believes forecasting has serious limitations and is not a reliable guide for the long-term future. Instead, he recommends scenario planning as a superior way of envisaging the future, in order to help managers see the business environment more clearly and make better strategic choices. Using the considerable experience of Shell in thi...Starting at €8.20