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South Africa (B): Getting Unstuck
Vietor, Richard H.K.; Comin, DiegoCaso HBS-711085-EEconomía15 years after ending apartheid, formal unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4 to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck between low wage and fully developed competitors. The government of Jacob Zuma has just adopted a "New Growth Path," hoping to create several million jobs over the next few years. Both t...Desde 5,74 €
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Sudáfrica (B): Desatascándose
Vietor, Richard H.K.; Comin, DiegoCaso HBS-712S10Economía15 años después de poner fin al apartheid, el desempleo formal en Sudáfrica aún estaba en el 24%. Si bien el país había crecido a 4 a 5% anual durante la década de 2000, la crisis financiera fijarlo de nuevo en 1 millón de parados más. Por otra parte, parecía como si la nación se quedaron atrapados entre los bajos salarios y los competidores plenamente desarrollados. El gobierno de Jacob Zuma acaba de adoptar un "camino nuevo crecimiento", con la...Desde 5,74 €
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Pearson Affordable Learning Fund
Chu, Michael; Dessain, Vincent; Maslauskaite, KristinaCaso HBS-315109-EAn in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF sought to invest in business models providing superior educational outcomes in emerging markets on a profitable and scalable basis. With Pearson's overall strategy shifting from the developed to the developing world and from a supplier of books to a host of other learning products and servi...Desde 8,20 €
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Hindustan Unilever Limited Versus USV Private Limited: An Advertising Skirmish - Teaching Note
Ajeet SharmaNota del Instructor IVEY-W27509-EConocimiento y comunicación, MarketingTeaching note for product W27508.Desde 0,00 €
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Post-Truth or Social Justice: Serge Belamant and Cash Paymaster Services in South Africa
Albert Wöcke; Morris MthombeniCaso IVEY-9B20M086-EDirección estratégicaSerge Belamant was the founder and chief executive officer of Net1 UEPS Technologies (Net1), a US$600-million company that had a contract with the South Africa government to pay social grants to the poor. The contract was controversial from the start and was under scrutiny through multiple legal challenges and three different investigations, including by the US Securities Exchange Commission and the US Department of Justice. When Belamant discove...Desde 8,20 €
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New Earth Mining, Inc. (Spanish version)
Fruhan, William E.; Wang, WeiCaso HBS-917S19FinanzasNew Earth Mining is one of the largest producers of precious metals in the U.S. While the firm operates mines primarily in the U.S. and Canada, it has also made substantial investments in gold exploration projects in Australia and Chile. New Earth has been very successful and has a large amount of cash on the balance sheet, a simple debt structure, and a reasonable leverage ratio with liquidity risk. With a strong financial position, the firm con...Desde 8,20 €
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Yola: Managing Multiple Challenges
Helena Barnard; Bryan MuirCaso IVEY-9B10M031-EDirección estratégica, Liderazgo y Dirección de personasThe South-African founder of Yola, a San Francisco-based company that provides simple website creation software, has developed a vibrant business that went from eight to more than 40 employees in only a year. He has secured two rounds of funding from a South African venture capitalist, and the growth in the Yola user base has been exceeding that predicted in the business plan. Yet the business faces multiple challenges. There are offices in both ...Desde 8,20 €
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Danimal in South Africa: Management Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Verity Hawarden; Helena BarnardCaso IVEY-9B10M099-EDirección estratégica, Iniciativa emprendedoraThis case focuses on management innovation in the South African dairy industry, describing how an innovative new yoghurt product, Danimal, was created specifically for the market at the base of the pyramid. It explains how management of the product line embodied the various innovation opportunities and challenges presented. The concept was initially introduced in order to assess the feasibility of profitably servicing this market. However, the pr...Desde 8,20 €
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Beyond Epic: Building the Business Beyond a Single Event
Greg Fisher; Michael GoldmanCaso IVEY-9B13M051-EDirección estratégica, Iniciativa emprendedoraThe founder and CEO of a mountain bike race in South Africa wonders how to build on the world-class event that he and his team have created. Although the event is popular and continues to grow in prestige, the business’s dependence on a single event creates both a threat and an opportunity. The threat is that the business would be in serious jeopardy if something were to go wrong with the event. The opportunity is that the event can be a launch p...Desde 8,20 €
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VALR: More than Courage Required to Scale
Roos Jacques, Kerrin MyresCaso IVEY-W32405-EDirección estratégica, Iniciativa emprendedoraVALR, a cryptocurrency platform and South African financial technology (fintech) company, was experiencing scaling challenges in August 2021. Launched in 2018, the start-up took on the market incumbent—a company trading in 40 countries. Within 18 months, VALR had become the market leader in terms of locally traded volume. However, this created growth pains and presented the issue of how the company could scale successfully. The company’s chief ex...Desde 8,20 €