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Funding My Sisters’ Place: Building a Sustainable Social Enterprise - Teaching Note
Janice Byrne; Sophie Bacq; Vania SakelarisTeaching Note IVEY-W28482-EEntrepreneurship, Knowledge and CommunicationTeaching note for product W28481.Starting at €0.00
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Patanjali: Swadeshi Jeans or Foreign Shores
Rod E. White; Hari Bapuji; Marissa SanwaldCase IVEY-9B17M079-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyOver the past five years, Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. (Patanjali) had emerged as a major player in India's fast-moving consumer goods industry. Building on the capabilities of its two founders, the company had differentiated its products with a unique mix of Indian nationalism, yoga spiritualism, and natural/Ayurvedic ingredients. In combination with its low-price and low-cost position, this strategy had challenged the incumbent multinational and conv...Starting at €8.20
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Windermere Manor: Sustainability and Change
Chetan Joshi; Hari Bapuji; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13C044-ELeadership and People Management, MarketingIn the hotel industry, the reuse of towels is considered a main step toward reducing hotels’ high carbon footprint. Windermere Manor, a private, high-end hotel, has established a routine to encourage its guests to reuse towels; however, the hotel’s towel-replacement rate exceeds its towel-reuse rate. The intended routine for identifying towels for reuse is not being followed, even by the hotels’ own housekeeping staff. The hotel's general manager...Starting at €8.20
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New Jersey Temple Construction: Social Inequalities and Modern Slavery
Pardeep Singh Attri; Vivek Soundararajan; Hari BapujiCase IVEY-W27261-EStrategyOn May 11, 2021, US federal agents raided the premises of a Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) temple in New Jersey and freed dozens of workers who had been operating under modern slavery conditions. Shortly afterward, six workers filed a class-action lawsuit against BAPS at the United States District Court, District of New Jersey. The lawsuit solicited to address the violation of the laws applied to workers, including la...Starting at €8.20
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Funding My Sisters’ Place: Building a Sustainable Social Enterprise
Janice Byrne; Sophie Bacq; Vania SakelarisCase IVEY-W28481-EEntrepreneurship, Knowledge and CommunicationBy the spring of 2021, My Sisters’ Place, a safe, welcoming, and inclusive support centre for women in London, Ontario, had welcomed countless women to Buchan House, a historic Victorian mansion located in downtown London, that had been generously donated by a local family. While it had become a safe haven for so many people in the community, the building’s age and heritage status also meant frequent and high maintenance costs, and the recent roo...Starting at €8.20