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Clarke: Transformation for Environmental Sustainability
Chris Laszlo; Katey McCabe; Eric Ahearn; Indrajeet GhatgeCase IVEY-9B12C012-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyClarke, a mosquito abatement company seen as having a core business that is environmentally harmful by its very nature — selling pesticides — faces unique challenges in its transformation into a sustainable enterprise. Should it shift its focus entirely towards offering “green” pesticides and risk losing some of its customers, or should it keep offering its less expensive, more toxic products? This case shows how even when innovation leads to new...Starting at €8.20
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Amorim: The Future of Natural Cork
Chris Laszlo; Katherine Gullett; Tim KruegerCase IVEY-9B17M019-EStrategyIn 2015, Corticeira Amorim, S.G.P.S., S.A. (Amorim), the world’s largest cork manufacturer, was facing multiple strategic dilemmas. After enjoying a near-monopoly in the wine stopper market for over 300 years, cork’s reputation had been damaged in the 20th century by concerns over “cork taint,” and the cork industry had been challenged by the resulting disruptive technologies of screw caps and synthetic corks. Amorim needed to rethink its core as...Starting at €8.20
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Cisco's Vision: A Smart+Connected World
Chris Laszlo; Patrick KellyCase IVEY-9B13M116-EMarketing, StrategyHaving been called upon by global leaders to use its technology to address the global crises of climate change and poverty, Cisco opts to pursue sustainability for corporate social responsibility and as a driver of differentiation and competitive advantage. The case discussion explores how the company answered this call to action and how the resulting strategies have proven effective in protecting its competitive advantage in an increasingly host...Starting at €8.20
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Ecovative Design LLC: A Biological Materials Startup
Chris Laszlo; Abdel Latif Ladki; Abraham WeinerCase IVEY-9B13M125-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyEcovative Designs (Ecovative), a start-up company in upstate New York, uses an innovative process to combine agricultural waste and mycelium (mushroom “roots”) to grow forms for use in a wide variety of applications, especially a protective packaging material. Not only does this new product replace the need for the environmentally harmful alternative, extruded polystyrene, but the production process is less energy intensive. It exemplifies the cr...Starting at €8.20
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Ford Motor Company: New Shades of Green Through Soy Foam
Garima Sharma; Chris Laszlo; Indrajeet GhatgeCase IVEY-9B13M109-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyFord Motor Co. develops and commercializes a green technology that replaces a traditional and scarce resource with an abundant bio-material. The pilot project becomes hugely successful, and, within the company, the idea of expanding the use of bio-material gains considerable momentum, but implementation and customer acceptance prove to be a challenge. Two members from the company’s research and engineering division work together to overcome these...Starting at €8.20
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La Vaca Independiente: Should a Social Enterprise Adopt a For-Profit Business Model
Chris Laszlo; Anya BriggsCase IVEY-9B13C033-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThis case presents a social enterprise considering whether a for-profit model might be an effective way to scale its impact. Mexico City-based La Vaca Independiente (The Independent Cow) was founded to bring art to underprivileged children. The founder observed that many global problems are caused by humanity’s increasing state of isolation, with individuals disconnected from the planet and from each other. She concluded that most benefit corpora...Starting at €8.20
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Pyramyd Air: Looking through the Scope of Values
Chris Laszlo; Katherine GullettCase IVEY-9B13C038-ELeadership and People ManagementPyramyd Air, a small and growing online airgun retailer serving the shooting community, wants to broaden its sustainability practices from its current internal initiatives in order to communicate an even stronger value proposition: sustainability isn’t just about recycling and efficiency, it is about a thriving environment leading to more engaged employees and more loyal premium customers. Though the airgun industry is not by its nature built on ...Starting at €8.20
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Banco de Iberia (A)
Rábago, Eduardo; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-217Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEl Banco de Iberia fue fundado por un grupo de inversores a finales del siglo XIX, con un capital de seis millones de pesetas (36.000 euros). En sus más de cien años de historia, el banco siempre cotizó con estabilidad en bolsa y estaba reconocido como una entidad sólida y contrastada en servicios de banca universal para clientes particulares, empresas e instituciones. En 2009, el banco debía adaptar su estructura a la nueva realidad, actuando en...Starting at €8.20
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MCO Insurance
Rábago, Eduardo; Stein, Guido; Cuadrado, MartaCase DPO-298Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEl caso MCO Insurance tiene por objetivo analizar la técnica de la evaluación 360° desde un punto de vista doble: el individual y el organizativo. Para el primer objetivo ofrece las evaluaciones de diferentes directivos de la empresa y su reacción ante ellas. Para el segundo, en el caso se incluye un resumen agregado de las competencias estudiadas y su valoración. A finales de 2012 se recibieron de la matriz instrucciones para realizar un nuevo e...Starting at €8.20
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LIPA (A): Impacto de una fusión
Rábago, Eduardo; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-172Corporate GovernanceEl director de recursos humanos de OLTRA, líder industrial en España que acababa de adquirir una de las mayores compañías argentinas, LIPA, no tenía todavía ideas claras sobre la mejor manera de conducirse para el desembarco. Creía que en primera línea poco importaba lo que pudiese arrojar un ejercicio de evaluación de este tipo; las decisiones se tomarían fuera de su ámbito y sujetas a otros motivos. ¿Cómo conjugar la experiencia ya validada en ...Starting at €8.20