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Ebola: Managing to Save Lives
IESE InsightArticle ART-2676-EService and Operations ManagementA year after the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa in March 2014, health-care experts are cautiously optimistic that the epidemic appears to be slowing. Although the outlook is brighter than a year ago when the first case was detected in Guinea, there is still a long way to go and many lessons to be learned in managing a crisis of this scale, related to institutional shortfalls, international coordination, engagement with local stakeholders and, m...Starting at €8.20
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IESE Insight. Issue 15. Fourth Quarter 2012
IESE InsightMagazine REV-36-EAccounting and Control, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyClaus Rerup (Richard Ivey School of Business) presents a framework for companies to improve their capability to pick up on signals that impending crises give off before they happen. The corporate communications consultant Alfonso González-Herrero looks at the key issues that companies must address, with forecasting and planning, in order to safeguard their reputations. IESE's José R. Pin provides a guide to help managers lead and communicate, so ...Starting at €22.00
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Voltium, Inc.
del Potro, Eloy; Stein, Guido; Pin Arboledas, José Ramón; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan CarlosCase BE-173-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe manager at Voltium,a European company that was installing electricity in various parts of an African country, pondered whether it was justifiable to yield to the extortion of a local public official of the Dambo region, just as the company was about to finalize the project for the electrification of the area. This case was recognized by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) as the best publication in the 2012 Case Writing ...Starting at €8.20
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Voltium, Inc.
del Potro, Eloy; Stein, Guido; Pin Arboledas, José Ramón; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan CarlosCase BE-173Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityEl responsable de Voltium, una empresa europea que estaba realizando una instalación eléctrica en varias zonas de un país africano, dudaba sobre si es lícito ceder a la extorsión de un funcionario público local de la región de Dambo, justo ahora que la empresa está a punto de finalizar y entregar la obra de electrificación de la zona. Este caso obtuvo el reconocimiento de la European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) como mejor public...Starting at €8.20
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La flor y el volcán: cómo el Eyjafjallajökull alteró la industria keniata de las flores
Chaturvedi, Aadhaar; Martínez de Albéniz, VictorCase P-1106Service and Operations ManagementEn la mañana del 19 de abril de 2010, el señor Eduard Ngugi, gerente de la finca de rosas Uraidi, se planteaba qué hacer con las rosas que, durante dos días ya, colmaban la cámara frigorífica. Para entonces, las flores, sedentes en aquel cuarto frío situado a orillas del keniata lago Naivasha, debían estar en camino hacia los hogares de los clientes de Europa occidental. Sin embargo, la erupción explosiva del volcán islandés Eyjafjallajökull, ac...Starting at €8.20
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Al-Shabaab, Gatekeepers, and the Ethics of Humanitarian Aid
Krehbiel, KCase SGSB-ETH01-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityFollowing decades of civil strife among warring clans, and exacerbated by the worst drought in decades (2010-2012), millions of starving dislocated Somalis resided in crowded camps throughout the country. Humanitarian aid organizations made good-faith efforts to distribute food and medical treatment and supplies to those who suffered most. Almost always, however, these nongovernment organizations (NGOs) were thwarted by so-called gatekeepers, w...Starting at €8.20
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PATH and the Safe Water Project: Making Safe Water Products More Affordable
Zenios S; Denend L; Elliott TCase SGSB-OIT109-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementThis case provides an overview of the nonprofit organization PATH and its Safe Water Project—a five-year effort launched in late 2006 with $17 million in funding from the global development unit of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The purpose of the grant was to evaluate to what extent market-based approaches could help accelerate the widespread adoption and sustained use of household water treatment and safe storage products by low-income ...Starting at €8.20
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Fastjet: Strategy and Expansion
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; James Spillane; Jocelyn Carabott; Cheryl Mok; Nicole WiebeCase IVEY-9B18D018-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn 2012, Fastjet acquired Fly540, a low-cost airline with operations in Tanzania, Kenya, Angola, and Ghana, and began operating as a low-cost carrier with the goal to become the most successful pan-African low-cost airline. Since starting operations, FastStarting at €8.20
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SCMS: Battling HIV/AIDS in Africa
Raman, Ananth; Watson, Noel; Kraiselburd, Santiago; Akili, EmmanuelCase HBS-613023-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2005, USAID and the U.S. President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), created the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) to procure and distribute essential medicines and supplies; provide technical assistance to transform existing supply chains; and collaborated with in-country and global partners to coordinate efforts. The new US Global Health Initiative (GHI) initialized in 2010 sought to build on these efforts through strengthened ...Starting at €8.20
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Unilever: Combatting Global Food Waste
Drake, David; Hammond, Janice H.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-615040-EService and Operations ManagementThe global consumer goods company Unilever was on pace to hit a number of aggressive targets by 2020 as part of the Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's Chief Supply Chain Officer Pier Luigi Sigismondi and his team were working towards this goal and had chosen to first focus on three key areas-sugar, tomatoes, and tea-and had analyzed where in the 'farm t...Starting at €8.20