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Global Beauty Made in Brazil (Spanish version)
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Reisen de Pinho, RicardoCase HBS-807S26EntrepreneurshipExplores the globalization strategies of Natura, Brazil's largest cosmetics company. Founded in 1969, Natura grew using a direct selling model. Led by its three founders, the firm made distinctive use of Brazil's diversity and became characterized by high ethical and environmental standards. Natura began to seek international markets in 1982, but experienced many setbacks until surviving the economic crisis in Argentina in 2001. The company opene...Starting at €8.20
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Banking on Sustainability (Spanish version)
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Reisen de Pinho, RicardoCase HBS-311S04Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityABN AMRO REAL made corporate social responsibility central to its brand, adding to customer focus and reflecting its values. Leaders developed the Bank of Value theme and implemented it through activities such as microfinance in poor communities, environmentally oriented lending products, socio-environmental screening of customers and suppliers, employee diversity, and reduction of waste and recycling. Now the fourth largest private bank in Brazi...Starting at €8.20
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Petrobras in Ecuador (A)
Musacchio, Aldo; Goldberg, Lena G.; Reisen de Pinho, RicardoCase HBS-309107-EOn October 18, 2007, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announced his intention to migrate Petrobras' existing participation contracts to exploit oil reserves in Ecuador's Blocks 18 and 31 to servicing agreements under which Petrobras would be paid a production fee and reimbursed for investment costs but all recovered oil would belong to the government. Correa also announced a dramatic increase in corporate taxes and changes to other contracts to ...Starting at €8.20
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Hacking Bureaucracy: Reimagining California's Food Stamp Program in the Digital Age, Teaching Plan
Eaves, David; Winig, LauraTeaching Note HBS-KS1216-EInformation TechnologiesTeaching note for case KS1215.Starting at €0.00
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Cracking the Monolith: California's Child Welfare Services Disrupts Technology Procurement (A)
Datla, Anjani; Eaves, DavidCase HBS-KS1235-EEconomicsIn October 2015, two senior California officials: Marybel Batjer, Secretary for Government Operations, and Michael Wilkening, Undersecretary for the Health and Human Services Agency seized on an idea that had the potential to turn the state's long dysfunctional technology procurement process on its head. After years of planning, California was about to request bids for a new child welfare management system to replace a twenty-year-old technology...Starting at €8.20
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Petrobras in Ecuador (B)
Musacchio, Aldo; Goldberg, Lena G.; Reisen de Pinho, RicardoCase HBS-309108-EStarting at €5.74
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Perforando hacia el Sur: Petrobras Evalúa Pecom
Desai, Mihir A.; Reisen de Pinho, RicardoCase HBS-207S10FinanceLa petrolera brasileña, Petrobras, está evaluando la adquisición de una empresa petrolera argentina, el Grupo Pérez Companc (Pecom). La adquisición aumentaría las reservas de petróleo de Petrobras y ampliar sus intereses fuera de Brasil, un paso significativo para la compañía más grande de Brasil. Pecom está a la venta, ya que se ha visto gravemente afectado por la crisis financiera en Argentina. Los estudiantes tienen la oportunidad de evaluar e...Starting at €8.20
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Hacking Bureaucracy: Reimagining California's Food Stamp Program in the Digital Age
Winig, Laura; Eaves, DavidCase HBS-KS1215-EInformation TechnologiesIn 2014, three former Code for America fellows embarked on a one-year skunk works journey to use technology to improve the enrollment process for California's SNAP (food stamp) program, CalFresh, to increase the number of residents receiving benefits in San Francisco. The case describes a user-centered approach to identifying bottlenecks within the CalFresh enrollment process and the low cost, fast solution proposed-and built-by the group. The ca...Starting at €8.20
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Cracking the Monolith: California's Child Welfare Services Disrupts Technology Procurement (B)
Eaves, David; Datla, AnjaniCase HBS-KS1236-EEconomicsSupplement to case KS1235. In October 2015, two senior California officials: Marybel Batjer, Secretary for Government Operations, and Michael Wilkening, Undersecretary for the Health and Human Services Agency seized on an idea that had the potential to turn the state's long dysfunctional technology procurement process on its head. After years of planning, California was about to request bids for a new child welfare management system to replace a...Starting at €5.74
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UK Government Digital Service: Moving Beyond a Website
Eaves, David; Goldberg, DanielCase HBS-KS1241-EEconomicsIn 2011, the UK founded a new government agency known as the "Government Digital Service" (or GDS). Facing significant budget challenges, several high profile IT failures, and growing demands to "modernize" government services, the government set a mission for GDS to champion a "digital culture" in government, ideally unleashing a wave of both cost savings and innovations. By 2012, GDS had identified billions of pounds of potential savings, centr...Starting at €8.20