Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Evolving Kiva's Impact: Introduction of Kiva Labs and Kiva Zip
Russell Siegelman, Sabrina ManvilleCase SGSB-E517-EEntrepreneurshipKiva.org was a website through which individuals could connect with opportunities to alleviate poverty via small-scale lending. Founded in 2005, the platform had grown impressively and had facilitated over $500m in loans by 2014. The scale Kiva had achieved was facilitated by its partnerships with microfinance institutions, which managed all of the lending operations for loans made by visitors to the Kiva site. Kiva’s team had diverse views of im...Starting at €8.20
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Google.org
Arrillaga-Andreessen, Laura; Johnson, ChristyCase SGSB-SM351-EStrategyThis case highlights how corporate philanthropies are distinct from other philanthropic institutions in terms of motivations, incentives and giving models. The case focuses on how Google.org leverages their assets to support the missions and initiatives of the organizations they fund. It also aims to explore how the team at Google.org thinks about the tradeoffs and challenges of aligning the company’s business strategy with their social justice ...Starting at €8.20