Ivey Business School (Canada)
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City Water Tanzania (C): The Private Sector Experiment
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M027A-EStrategyThis is a supplement to City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam, product #9B07M025 and is a two-part role-play. In this part (A) role-play, students take the position of Edward Lowassa, Tanzania's Minister of Water.Starting at €5.74
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City Water Tanzania (C): Striking a Deal
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M027B-EStrategyThis is a supplement to City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam, product #9B07M025 and is a two-part role-play. In this part (B) role-play, students take the position of Cliff Stone, Biwater's former director of sales for Africa and now chief executive officer of City Water's management.Starting at €5.74
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Value Chain Development: Care Kenya’s Challenge to Make Markets Work for the Poor (B)
Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B12M034-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case is a supplement to Value Chain Development: Care Kenya’s Challenge to Make Markets Work for the Poor (A).Starting at €5.74
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Value Chain Development: Care Kenya’s Challenge to Make Markets Work for the Poor (A)
Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B12M033-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case examines how CARE, a non-profit international development organization, begins to pursue a market-based approach to meeting its poverty-reduction mission. Specifically, a CARE project manager explores how previous work with low-income livestock herders in drought-prone eastern Kenya might offer an opportunity to work with value chain actors to improve access to markets and increase farmers’ incomes.With the Kenyan livestock project as t...Starting at €8.20
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City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M025-EStrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - This case is one of the winners of the 2008 Dark Side Case Writing Competition. This case examines how the Tanzania government intends to address a pressing deterioration in the infrastructure and services of Dar es Salaam's Water and Sewage Authority. The decision process unfolds in the spring of 2002, on the heels of the Cochabamba uprising in Bolivia and an increasing dispute over the involvement of the International Finan...Starting at €8.20
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Morita's Legacy and International Strategy at Sony
Christopher Williams; Nicole Duncan; Gregoire Thomas; Christopher Held; Ami LebendikerCase IVEY-9B12M082-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTwo years after the death of Sony’s visionary founder, Akio Morita, chief executive officer Noboyuki Idei faced a major crisis. Sony had just posted its worst performance in years and had to figure out if its current strategy needed to change. In pursuit of Morita’s vision to bring entertainment to the masses through innovation and applied technology, Sony had grown from a small Japanese company to a US$50-billion-per-year global corporation. As ...Starting at €8.20
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City Water Tanzania (B): Privatizing Dar es Salaam's Water Utility
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M026-EStrategyThis is a supplement to City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam, product #9B07M025. It details the terms of the lease contract with an international operator, Biwater, and discusses the alternatives that were considered and discarded, the bidding process, and the roles and motivations of the parties. The key questions revolve around a) the adequacy of the decision, b) the responsibility for the next steps and c) the mileston...Starting at €5.74
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City Water Tanzania (D): Things Fall Apart
Oana Branzei; Kevin McKagueCase IVEY-9B07M028-EStrategyThis is a supplement to City Water Tanzania (A): Water Partnerships for Dar es Salaam, product #9B07M025. This case summarizes the decision of the negotiation: the break up of City Water Tanzania and its aftermath, including litigation and forgone opportunities to meet the needs of the local residents.Starting at €5.74