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International Expansion of Escuela Nueva: A Transformative Pedagogy on a Global Scale
Hehenberger, Lisa; Moral, N.; Mair, JohannaCase SM-1556-EEntrepreneurshipThis case study presents the challenging task of expanding the widely successful Escuela Nueva pedagogy on a global scale. Escuela Nueva provides a cost effective, replicable and scalable solution to improve the quality of basic education in low income schools. It started in rural Colombia, but has since expanded principally to a large number of Latin American countries. Evidence shows that wherever Escuela Nueva is implemented, children become ...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (A): la transformación de una idea de laboratorio a una empresa de alto crecimiento: Los retos de comercializar un dispositivo tecnológico innovador
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-2Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeEste caso habla sobre un director general que se puso al frente de una spin-off creada a partir de un instituto de investigación, se convirtió en el primer empleado de la nueva empresa y trató de convertir esa idea de laboratorio en un prototipo con el objetivo de producirlo industrialmente y venderlo finalmente a un cliente muy exigente, afrontando entre tanto varias crisis notables. Además de las dificultades para conseguir que el producto (un...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (B): una cuesta empinada y arriesgada hacia el éxito: Decisiones y consecuencias
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-7Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeEste caso B no puede impartirse de manera aislada, pues es una continuación directa del caso "Nacre: cómo convertir una idea de laboratorio en una empresa de alto crecimiento" (A) [EFC-2-E]. En el caso B se describen las decisiones y medidas estratégicas del director general y cómo esta empresa (que tan sólo tenía entre 12 y 15 empleados en aquel momento y subcontrataba los servicios de un gran fabricante) consiguió finalmente cerrar un contrato...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (A): Turning a Lab Idea into a High-Growth Firm: The challenges of bringing an innovative device technology to market
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-2-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase is about a CEO who took over a spin-off from a research institute, became the new firm's employee #1 and tried to turn this lab idea into a prototype, then get it ready for industrialization, and finally sell it to a very demanding client, while facing some significant crises on this way. Beside the challenge of getting the product (an integrated hearing protection and communication device) working and a painful failure with a cont...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (B): a Steep and Risky Climb to Success: Decisions & Consequences
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-7-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case B cannot be taught as a stand-alone case, but is a direct continuation of the FocusCase "Nacre: Turning a Lab Idea into a High-Growth Firm (A)" [EFC-2-E]. This case B describes the strategic decisions and actions of the CEO and how eventually, this firm - with only 12-15 employees at that time (plus a large contract manufacturer) - manages to land a US-$30 million deal with the US Marine Corp. Soon after, this company is acquired by a l...Starting at €8.20
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Diana Uribe: From Radio to Podcasts
Liliana Lopez JimenezCase IVEY-9B20M102-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyDiana Uribe was a successful cultural personality in her native Colombia, best known for her national radio show about world history. Since 2000, the show had aired every Sunday on Caracol Radio, Colombia’s most popular news radio station. On October 9, 2Starting at €8.20
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Rappi: the Latin American Super App? (Spanish version)
Enrique Ramirez R.; Andres Gonzalez R.Case IVEY-W28186Entrepreneurship, StrategyRappi Inc. (Rappi) was an on-demand delivery mobile application (app) that allowed users in Latin America to shop online for groceries, meals, and other products and have these delivered to them. It also provided various other services, such as cash withdrawals and dog walking. Rappi was founded in 2015, and in less than five years, it had evolved from operating in improvised headquarters in a parking lot in Bogotá to becoming a member of an excl...Starting at €8.20
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Confecciones La Montaña: A Social Business for Peace Building
Liliana Lopez Jimenez, Gustavo Yepes Lopes, Jose Luis Camarena, M. Jahangir Chowdhury, Natalia LeónCase IVEY-W27107-EEntrepreneurshipConfecciones La Montaña (CLM), a social business founded by former Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) combatants in rural Colombia, emerged out of the peace deal signed between FARC and the Colombian government in 2016. The business was part of the effort of former combatants to rejoin civilian life and help alleviate poverty in conflict-affected areas, thereby nurturing appropriate conditions to sustain peace in the country. Howe...Starting at €8.20
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Hatsu: From Start-up to Megabrand
Enrique Ramirez R.; Angela Gil; Camilo FernandezCase IVEY-W25423-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingThe Hatsu brand of tea beverages and healthy food products emerged from the idea of two Colombian entrepreneurs in 2010 and evolved, in just over five years, to capture the interest of the leading company in the Colombian beverage market, Postobón SA (Postobón), which acquired it. In this context, Hatsu faced the challenge of consolidating itself in the tea beverage market while also venturing into other product categories (e.g., cereal bars, nut...Starting at €8.20
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Gelato: Sustainable production on demand: Facilitating global trade through local production
Jané, Joan; Torrell, MarcCase OIT-20-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementGelato was launched in 2012, and it has since created the world's largest network for local production and distribution of customized products. Through Gelato's marketplace platform, e-commerce sellers and creators can drive print-on-demand business models by working with printing suppliers to customize products with their own designs to sell them on a per-order basis under their own brand. With the latest funding round of $240 million in August...Starting at €8.20