HBSP (USA)
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The Quest for Achieving Financial Inclusion: M-Pesa Versus UPI
Winig, Laura; Eaves, DavidCase HBS-KS1304-EInformation TechnologiesIn 2019, World Bank analyst Abebi Eke had a difficult assignment: decide whether to recommend that the World Bank, in line with its commitment to expanding financial inclusion to the world's poor, lend its support to a particular digital payments scheme. Eke was asked to investigate two of the most promising payment systems-UPI in India and M-Pesa in Kenya-and prepare a memo comparing the benefits and drawbacks of each. Eke had discovered that wh...Starting at €8.20
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Corruption in Germany
Abdelal, Rawi; Di Tella, Rafael; Schlefer, JonathanCase HBS-709006-EWhy do managers become corrupt? Does corruption ever pay? When do friendly relations cross into bribery? How can CEOs manage and prevent outbreaks of corruption? These and other questions are raised by three short case studies of corruption in Germany: at the global engineering firm Siemens, the automaker VW, and the chemical giant BASF. While German law not only permitted overseas bribery but even made it tax deductible until 1999, it was not we...Starting at €8.20
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Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past
Di Tella, Rafael; Pons, Vincent; Mehta, Sarah; Lane, DavidCase HBS-717034-EEconomicsOver the past several decades, rapid growth in Chinese investment and trade has created for Africa a new development partner. China represents an alternative to U.S. and European nations whose past imperialism, resource avarice, and economic dictates-through the conditionality of IMF and World Bank lending-remain a negative legacy. This case uses the story of Zambia's Chambishi copper mine, which was purchased in 1998 by the state-owned China Non...Starting at €8.20
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Fiscal Responses to COVID-19
Abdelal, Rawi; Di Tella, Rafael; Pons, Vincent; Goldstein, GalitCase HBS-721011-EEconomicsFor the first half of 2020, the COVID-19 crisis seemed on the verge of spiraling out of control. The business world struggled to figure out what COVID meant for macroeconomics. Extended restrictions limiting human interaction meant an end to normal economStarting at €8.20