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Merafuture: Building an Ed-Tech Start-Up in Pakistan
Zunaira Saqib, Madiha Gohar, Ayesha AbrarCase IVEY-W34302-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyMaria took a final glance at the company accounts, then closed her laptop. On New Year’s Eve of 2022, she had mixed emotions reflecting on the journey of the past two years. In just fifteen days, it would be Merafuture's two year anniversary as a registered company. 2020 and 2021 were anything but normal for the world, and it was no different for Merafuture. In August 2021, after struggling for the first year and a half, the company began to show...Starting at €8.20
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Imaam Spinning Mills: Cost of Capital of a Private Company
Aaqib Nawaz; Imran Yousaf; Zhichuan (Frank) LiCase IVEY-W34046-EAccounting and Control, FinanceOn January 2, 2018, the chief executive officer of a private company in Karachi, Pakistan, Imaam Spinning Mills (Imaam), was planning to expand the company’s product line and enter the weaving business by setting up a new weaving plant. He asked his chief financial officer to conduct a financial evaluation financial evaluation of the project. To do so, she needed to calculate the weighted average cost of capital, using the comparative method to c...Starting at €8.20
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La empresa Larsen: Una decisión de compra
Velilla, Manuel; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-100Decision AnalysisLa empresa noruega Larsen es un fabricante de muebles de tamaño mediano. Su directora de compras tiene que decidirse entre dos ofertas, una de su proveedor tradicional (pequeño y fiable pero cuya calidad ha decaído) y otra de un proveedor más grande (un 2% más caro, pero con una calidad ligeramente superior y capaz de servir pedidos de mayor volumen). Otros factores son el sistema de incentivos de la directora de compras, la relación entre los pr...Starting at €8.20
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The Larsen Company (A): A purchasing decision
Velilla, Manuel; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-100-EDecision AnalysisThe Larsen Company is a small furniture manufacturing company in Norway. Its purchasing manager has to decide which one of two offers to accept, one from its traditional supplier (small and reliable but offering declining quality) or another from a larger supplier (2% more expensive, offering slightly higher quality, and able to serve higher volumes). Other factors are the incentive system of the purchasing manager, the relation between the owner...Starting at €8.20
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The Larsen Company (B): What ChatGPT would do
Velilla, Manuel; Palencia, LuisCase ASN-101-EInformation TechnologiesThe Larsen Company (B) case provides the answer that ChatGPT 4.0 gives to the question posed in the Larsen Company (A) case and to some additional prompts.Starting at €5.74
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Mission in Flux: Michigan National Guard in Liberia, Epilogue
Howitt, Arnold M.; Lundberg, KirstenCase HBS-KS1252-EEpilogue to case KS1242. In summer and fall of 2014, thousands of individuals in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea contracted the Ebola virus. This outbreak of the deadly disease, which until then had been highly uncommon in West Africa, prompted a major (albeit delayed) public health response on the part of the international community, including an unprecedented commitment made by the United States, which sent almost 3,000 active military soldie...Starting at €8.20
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Mission in Flux: Michigan National Guard in Liberia
Howitt, Arnold M.; Lundberg, KirstenCase HBS-KS1242-EIn summer and fall of 2014, thousands of individuals in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea contracted the Ebola virus. This outbreak of the deadly disease, which until then had been highly uncommon in West Africa, prompted a major (albeit delayed) public health response on the part of the international community, including an unprecedented commitment made by the United States, which sent almost 3,000 active military soldiers to Liberia. "Mission i...Starting at €8.20
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Primary Education in Pakistan: Show Me the Evidence Slides
Khwaja, Asim; Datla, AnjaniCase HBS-HKS792-EEconomicsPowerpoint Slide for HKS772Starting at €8.20
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Managing a Security Response to the Ebola Epidemic in Liberia (Epilogue)
Bourdeaux, Margaret; Kayyem, JulietteCase HBS-KS1309-EOn August 19, 2014, Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was faced with an agonizing decision: should she quarantine a densely populated township of Monrovia to halt the spread of the Ebola virus disease? The disease had been ravaging the Republic of Liberia for months but until now, had been isolated in the countryside. Now, the deadly virus was spreading, unchecked, and threatened the 1 million inhabitants of Monrovia, the capital city of th...Starting at €8.20
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Managing a Security Response to the Ebola Epidemic in Liberia (B)
Bourdeaux, Margaret; Kayyem, JulietteCase HBS-KS1310-EOn August 19, 2014, Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was faced with an agonizing decision: should she quarantine a densely populated township of Monrovia to halt the spread of the Ebola virus disease? The disease had been ravaging the Republic of Liberia for months but until now, had been isolated in the countryside. Now, the deadly virus was spreading, unchecked, and threatened the 1 million inhabitants of Monrovia, the capital city of th...Starting at €5.74