Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Microfinance and the Kipsigis of Southwest Kenya
Glenn Brophey; Robin WiszowatyCase IVEY-9B08M059-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA group of business students and their professor travel to rural Kenya to work with Free The Children (FTC), an in-situ, non-governmental organization (NGO) that is focused on generational social change through education for children. This Canadian NGO has had considerable success in meeting this original objective and now sees health care and economic development concerns as being the next barriers to expansion of its educational thrust for the ...Starting at €8.20
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Liberty with Partners for Possibility: Contextual Leadership in Public-Education Impact
Caren Scheepers; Kerrin MyresCase IVEY-9B18M138-EStrategyIn June 2017, a bancassurance director at South Africa’s Liberty Group Limited (Liberty) was making his way to a public school in Soweto, south of Johannesburg. Liberty was an insurance company in South Africa, part of Liberty Holdings, a leading financial-services group with representation in 24 countries across the African continent. As he drove along the highway he wondered how he could encourage more business leaders at Liberty to get involve...Starting at €8.20
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The Spinach King: Scaling Opportunity in Social Enterprise
Kerrin Myres; Anastacia MamaboloCase IVEY-9B19M138-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA social entrepreneur running a business in Khayelitsha, near Cape Town, South Africa, made and distributed healthy bread-based products for consumers in a poor community through his social enterprise, the Spinach King. His aim was to improve consumers’ eStarting at €8.20