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A New Model for the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Institute of OneWorld Health
Schoen, Oliver; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1480-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case introduces the Institute of OneWorld Health, a company dedicated to producing drugs for neglected diseases and the first non-profit pharmaceutical company in the world. Founded in 2000 by Dr. Victoria Hale, IOWH took expired and donated patent compounds and developed them through all the stages of clinical testing and approval into drugs to fight the world's most destructive diseases, usually occurring in Third World countries where per...Starting at €8.20
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International Expansion of Escuela Nueva: A Transformative Pedagogy on a Global Scale
Hehenberger, Lisa; Moral, N.; Mair, JohannaCase SM-1556-EEntrepreneurshipThis case study presents the challenging task of expanding the widely successful Escuela Nueva pedagogy on a global scale. Escuela Nueva provides a cost effective, replicable and scalable solution to improve the quality of basic education in low income schools. It started in rural Colombia, but has since expanded principally to a large number of Latin American countries. Evidence shows that wherever Escuela Nueva is implemented, children become ...Starting at €8.20
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Carrefour Group: Growth Management
Roig, Guillem; Rahnema Alavi, Ahmad; Vergara, CarlesCase F-909-EFinanceOn November 13, 2014, Roberto Alonso, investment manager at Alpha Funds, received a report from his research team regarding the Carrefour Group. Alpha was interested in the distribution sector for several reasons. First, the sector is especially defensive against market uncertainty, since it deals with basic necessities. Thus, while the international markets may experience large fluctuations, the fund would have relatively little exposure to thes...Starting at €8.20
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Committee for Democracy in Information Technology (CDI)
Vergés S.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1453-EStrategyThis is the first of a case series on Social Entrepreneurship written in collaboration with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The Comite para Democratizaçao da Informática (CDI) was a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded by Rodrigo Baggio in Brazil in 1995. Its mission was to set up schools to teach computer skills to low-income communities so that slum residents could begin to move into the mainstream of society and...Starting at €8.20
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Entropy International. Enabling Businesses to Make a Contribution to Sustainable Development - Teaching Note
Seelos, Christian; Mair, JohannaTeaching Note DGT-33-EStrategyNote prepared as an aid to instructors in the classroom use of case DG-1454-E Entropy International. Enabling Businesses to Make a Contribution to Sustainable Development.Starting at €0.00
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México: el programa de cobertura de petróleo
Roig, Guillem; Carbonell, Oscar; Rahnema Alavi, AhmadCase F-915Economics, FinanceEl caso describe la decisión de Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), la empresa petrolera estatal de México, de emplear un sistema de cobertura basado en la utilización de derivados financieros. Desde el bum del petróleo en la década de los ochenta, México se alzó como unos de los actores principales de este ámbito. Al tratarse de un sector nacionalizado, el riesgo operacional se puede propagar hasta los contribuyentes y, siendo el petróleo un activo cuy...Starting at €8.20
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Balkan Snack Foods, d.d.
Roig, Guillem; Rahnema Alavi, AhmadCase F-916-EFinanceThe structure of Balkan Snack Foods allows for an analysis of financing costs depending on the choice between different currencies. Such an analysis entails measuring the exchange rate risk as well as its impact on the company's financing costs and bottom line. It also involves an examination of the relationship between the company's competitive position and the type and form of financing it chooses.Starting at €8.20
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Merger of Three. The Integration of Allianz, AGF and Athena in Spain
Lupu, Raluca; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1404-EStrategyAt the end of 1997 Allianz, the German insurance group, acquired AGF, a key player in the French market. With this move Allianz not only reinforced its strategy of multilocality, but also added momentum to the ongoing consolidation process in the European and global insurance sector. In the course of the merger implementation process several issues appeared; among the most prominent, the integration of existing businesses (subsidiaries) in other ...Starting at €8.20
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Grupo Carrefour: gestión de crecimiento
Roig, Guillem; Rahnema Alavi, Ahmad; Vergara, CarlesCase F-909FinanceEl 13 de noviembre de 2014, Roberto Alonso, gestor de inversiones en Alpha Funds, recibió un informe de su equipo de investigación referente al Grupo Carrefour. Alpha estaba interesada en el sector de la distribución por varias razones. En primer lugar, el sector es especialmente defensivo frente a la incertidumbre de los mercados, ya que trata con bienes de primera necesidad. Así, aunque los mercados internacionales experimentaran grandes fluctu...Starting at €8.20
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Entropy International. Enabling businesses to make a contribution to sustainable development
Seelos, Christian; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1454-EStrategyThis case documents the circumstances of managing the growth phase of a start-up company. Entropy International faces the unique challenges and opportunities of social entrepreneurship but also entrepreneurship in general. Founded by a visionary environmental activist in 1996 as an environmental consulting boutique in the United Kingdom, Entropy grew with the emerging needs of large multinational corporations to publicly report on and minimize th...Starting at €8.20