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El Proyecto Oxygen de Nokia y MIT (Abreviado)
Henderson, Rebecca M.; Confrey, NancyCase HBS-705S23Strategydesarrollos pendientes en las redes inalámbricas y computación empotrados presente uno de largo alcance desafío estratégico de Nokia, Inc. Este caso describe la tecnología de maneras es propenso a desarrollar en los próximos 20 años, describe brevemente Nokia de la historia y el posicionamiento estratégico, y desafía al lector a desarrollar una estrategia coherente para Nokia en el futuro.Starting at €8.20
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Leadership Across Cultures
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1505Z-EKnowledge and CommunicationBridging cultural differences demands exceptional emotional intelligence. This chart shows the percentage of leaders in each of seven global regions--the U.S., the Middle East, India, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and China--who demonstrated strength in a range of hard and soft skills, according to a study by YSC, a corporate psychology consultancy. Due to the highly graphical nature of the Vision Statement, we offer this reprint in...Starting at €8.20
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PharmAccess and the M-TIBA Platform: Leveraging Digital Technology in the Developing World
Schulman, Kevin A; Moodley, Sashidaran; Vasudevan, AnantCase HBS-317103-EEntrepreneurshipPharmAccess is an Amsterdam based NGO working to support the development of the private health care market in Africa. This work is critical as over 50% of care is delivered through the private sector, but well-intentioned efforts to address global health through the public sector have the unintended consequence of crowding-out capital formation in the private sector. PharmaAccess is working to crowd-in funding instead through the development of a...Starting at €8.20
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Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment
Gandhi, Vikram; Reimers Brumme, Caitlin Lindsay; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-318003-EFinanceThis case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons' motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impacStarting at €8.20
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Syngenta: Committing to Africa
Reinhardt, Forest L.; Shelman, MaryCase HBS-715010-EStrategyIn 2012, Syngenta, one of the world's largest agricultural input company, committed to build a $1 billion business in Africa over the next 10 years. In mid-2014, CEO Michael Mack and Africa Venture Team head Dimitri Pauwels are reviewing progress. Was the company's committment to Africa still relevant and achievable?Starting at €8.20
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Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Khanna, Tarun; Skurnik, Samuli; Mitchell, JordanCase HBS-709409-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has a unique holding structure whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the regional cooperatives own SOK, a centralized company that provides services to the regional cooperatives. Throughou...Starting at €8.20
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Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (A)
Alcacer, Juan; Molander, Rasmus; Mabud, RakeenCase HBS-710430-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. The Finnish brewer Hartwall and the Swedish brewer Pripps had to decide how to react to the rapidly changing European political, economic, and business environment in 1989-1990.Starting at €8.20
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Diageo and East African Breweries Ltd.: Tapping New Markets for Social Good
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Bird, MatthewCase HBS-310010-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. James Musyoki, Lemmy Mutahi, and Ken Kariuki, all from East African Breweries Limited (EABL), a subsidiary of London-based Diageo, heard the disheartening news in the first week of December 2008. For the second time in six months, the Kenyan Finance Ministry had raised excise taxes on alcoholic beverages in an effort to plug the country's budget deficit; the bill was awaitin...Starting at €8.20
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The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana
Ebrahim, Alnoor; Rangan, V. KasturiCase HBS-310025-EA U.S. government agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated over twenty years. As MCC and Ghana finalize a $547 million grant for agriculture and transportation infrastructure, they come up against an accountability and measurement problem: ho...Starting at €8.20
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Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A)
Segel, Arthur I; Retsinas, Nicolas P.; Diaz, Marc; Shepherd, JohnCase HBS-207017-EEconomicsKenya's Minister of Housing faces tremendous pressures in dealing with the pervasive housing troubles in his country. Kibera is the largest slum in Africa and home to over 800,000 residents, yet only measures two square kilometers, roughly half the size of Manhattan's Central Park. Most homes are single-story structures and the density is 3,000 persons per hectare (compared to 43 in London, 100 in New York City, and 143 in Tokyo), making this one...Starting at €8.20