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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
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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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The Dragonfly Project: Team E: NGOs for Freedom of Speech
Giacomini, Aurélia; Serra Parri, Fernando; de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-791-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Information Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationIn 2010, Google decided to suspend the version of its search engine that was operating in China, due to accusations of collusion with an authoritarian government, which censored searches based on ideological and political criteria. Eight years later, the American company - which had changed its name to Alphabet - began secret negotiations with the Chinese government, to return with a government-approved version known as the "Dragonfly Project." ...Starting at €8.20
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Religion and education clash at Hamline University (B)
de la Cierva, Yago;Case DPO-841-ECorporate Governance, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementIn October 2022, during an art history class at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota (United States), a professor showed a 16th-century Persian illustration depicting the Prophet Muhammad. One of the students in the course, who was the president of the campus Muslim Student Association, was offended and protested. This case study encompasses the evolution of the complaint, the rectorate's decisions on the matter, and the reactions of various...Starting at €5.74
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Religion and education clash at Hamline University (A): Academic freedom vs diversity and inclusion
; de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-840-ECorporate Governance, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementIn October 2022, during an art history class at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota (United States), a professor showed a 16th-century Persian illustration depicting the Prophet Muhammad. One of the students in the course, who was the president of the campus Muslim Student Association, was offended and protested. This case study encompasses the evolution of the complaint, the rectorate's decisions on the matter, and the reactions of various...Starting at €8.20
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Hamline University: Choque entre religión y educación (A): Libertad de cátedra vs. respeto a las minorías
; de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-840Corporate Governance, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementEn octubre del 2022, durante una clase de Historia del Arte en la Hamline University de St. Paul (Minnesota, Estados Unidos), una profesora mostró una ilustración persa del siglo XVI que representaba al profeta Mahoma. Una de las estudiantes del curso, que era presidenta de la Asociación de Estudiantes Musulmanes del campus, se sintió ofendida y protestó. El caso estudia cómo evolucionó la reclamación: las decisiones de rectorado al respecto y la...Starting at €8.20
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Hamline University: Choque entre religión y educación (B)
de la Cierva, Yago;Case DPO-841Corporate Governance, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementEn octubre del 2022, durante una clase de Historia del Arte en la Hamline University de St. Paul (Minnesota, Estados Unidos), una profesora mostró una ilustración persa del siglo XVI que representaba al profeta Mahoma. Una de las estudiantes del curso, que era presidenta de la Asociación de Estudiantes Musulmanes del campus, se sintió ofendida y protestó. El caso estudia cómo evolucionó la reclamación: las decisiones de rectorado al respecto y la...Starting at €5.74
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Liderando en una crisis: Donaciones tóxicas al MIT (B)
Armstrong, Angus; de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-755Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementEn 2019, los medios revelaron que el Media Lab del MIT estaba aceptando donaciones de alguien rico que había sido condenado por mala conducta sexual, y, más recientemente, como depredador en serie. Las partes interesadas internas y externas reaccionaron con desprecio e ira. La primera reacción del Media Lab fue insuficiente, y su director tuvo que dimitir. El problema pasó, entonces, al presidente del MIT. La Parte B cubre las iniciativas de recu...Starting at €5.74