HBSP (USA)
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The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity, Teaching Note
Esty, Benjamin C.; Gross, Daniel P.; Pickle, Lauren G.Teaching Note HBS-717481-EStrategyTeaching note for case 717430.Starting at €0.00
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Wilderness Safaris: Ecotourism Entrepreneurship
Austin, James E.; Epler Wood, Megan; Leonard, Herman B.Case HBS-318040-EStrategyWilderness Safaris sees itself as a conservation company that is built on a business model of providing high-end, premium-priced wildlife safaris in various locations in Africa. Dependent on functioning, healthy ecosystems for its long-term survivability as a business, it invests heavily in conservation efforts, both directly, with communities and governments, and with partners and competitors. It may be reaching saturation of the high-cost, high...Starting at €8.20
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Hopital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners In Health in Haiti
Kaplan, Robert S.; Mistry, Bipin; Bertrand, KarlaCase HBS-116041-EAccounting and ControlThe case describes the application of time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) at a new tertiary hospital operated by Partners-in-Health in Mirebelais, Haiti. A project team mapped the clinical processes for use in estimating the direct costs of personnel, equipment, and facilities for obstetric and breast cancer care. The accurate cost information revealed opportunities to optimize resource-utilization and reduce costs by establishing more eff...Starting at €8.20
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Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti
Kaplan, Robert S.; Shah, Mahek A.Case HBS-118051-EAccounting and ControlPartners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites in the Central Highlands of Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources used by patients being treated for diverse medical conditions, as an input to a time-driven activity-based costing model. The results show considerable cost diversity across the five s...Starting at €8.20
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The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity
Esty, Benjamin C.; Gross, Daniel P.; Pickle, Lauren G.Case HBS-717430-EStrategyIn September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore the $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the pilot program was to improve the consumer reselling experience and to enhance "diamond equity". Somewhat paradoxically, consumers typically received very low prices when they tried...Starting at €8.20
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Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief: What Can We Learn from Commercial Supply Chains
Shih, Willy; Pierson, MargaretCase HBS-615003-EService and Operations ManagementOrganizing speedy and efficient supply operations for unpredictable major natural disasters was a continuing challenge for the U.S. military, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti was both unique in its operational scope and political complexity. As he reviewed the after-action reports, George Topic, the Vice Director of the Center for Joint and Strategic Logistics at the National Defense University wondered how the performance of disaster relief effo...Starting at €8.20
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Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
Edmondson, Amy C.; Harvey, Jean-FrancoisCase HBS-616040-EService and Operations ManagementThis case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the final year of the project, presents the project's advances, and invites students to position themselves in front of three options regarding the exit strategy to be deployed to ensure sustain...Starting at €8.20
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Wilderness Safaris: Ecotourism Entrepreneurship, Teaching Note
Austin, James E.; Epler Wood, Megan; Leonard, Herman B.Teaching Note HBS-319042-EStrategyTeaching note for case 318040.Starting at €0.00