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The United Fruit Company in Guatemala (Spanish version)
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Bucheli, MarceloCase HBS-807S06EconomicsExamines the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. Over the previous half century, United Fruit had built a large vertically integrated tropical fruit business that owned large banana plantations in the "banana republics" of Central America, including Guatemala. Examines the impact and role of United Fruit in the Guatemalan economy, one of the poorest in the world, and t...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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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.
Marquis, Christopher; Yang, ZoeCase HBS-414065-EStrategyA company with a strong commitment toward corporate social responsibility since its founding days, Green Mountain faced an ethical decision point in 2007 as new information from the field uncovered a chronic dire problem facing coffee communities-seasonal starvation. Company leaders are driven to re-assess their social impact and address this widespread problem while aligning their efforts with their broader, rapidly expanding business of selling...Starting at €8.20
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What Are You Doing About It? (Spanish version)
Bower, Joseph L.; Leonard, Herman B.; Paine, Lynn S.Article HBS-R1109HStrategyMarket capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and inadequate government and international institutions are just a few of the forces that threaten to disrupt global market capitalism in the decades ahead. In conversations with business lead...Starting at €8.20
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Portugal: Can Socialism Survive, Teaching Note
Vietor, Richard H.K.Teaching Note HBS-718054-EEconomicsTeaching note for case 718024.Starting at €0.00
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European Integration: Meeting the Competitiveness Challenge
Porter, Michael E.; Ketels, Christian H.M.Case HBS-714405-EStrategyThe case discusses the origins and development of the European Integration process from the post-war period up to 2007, focusing particularly on the efforts of the Lisbon-agenda under way since 2000 to enhance Europe's competitiveness. It discusses the different policy areas that have been approached at the European level over time, and provides background on the architecture of European institutions. The case enables students to understand how E...Starting at €8.20
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The Octopus and the Generals: The United Fruit Company in Guatemala, Teaching Note
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Bucheli, MarceloTeaching Note HBS-809084-EEconomicsTeaching Note for [805146].Starting at €0.00
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Integración europea: cumplimiento del desafío de la competitividad
Porter, Michael E.; Ketels, Christian H.M.Case HBS-715S10StrategyEl caso analiza los orígenes y el desarrollo del proceso de integración europea desde la posguerra hasta 2007, con especial atención a los esfuerzos de la agenda de Lisboa-llevando a cabo desde el año 2000 para mejorar la competitividad de Europa. Se analizan los distintos ámbitos de actuación que se han acercado a nivel europeo con el tiempo, y proporciona antecedentes sobre la arquitectura de las instituciones europeas. El caso permite a los es...Starting at €8.20
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Submarino.com (A) (Spanish version)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Monteiro, Luiz Felipe; Collura, MeredithCase HBS-807S03Knowledge and CommunicationPermite un análisis exhaustivo de Submarino.com, una empresa de comercio electrónico B2C con presencia en Brasil, Argentina, México, España y Portugal. Examina las operaciones globales de la compañía, así como su diseño de la organización y funcionamiento y de gestión capacidades. Considera reto de determinar sus prioridades estratégicas y financieras, ya que pone en marcha un plan de crecimiento rápido con recursos limitados en el 2001 de la com...Starting at €8.20