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Making Waves in Rural Kenya
Sebastian Herrmann; Glenn Brophey; Denyse Lafrance-HorningCase IVEY-9B09A015-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThe developers of a simple, inexpensive, locally produced rain water harvesting system tackle the social marketing issues in the undeveloped market of rural Kenya. The benefits of the product are obvious but the poverty levels and entrenched traditions create significant and unique marketing challenges.Starting at €8.20
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Microfinance and the Kipsigis of Southwest Kenya
Glenn Brophey; Robin WiszowatyCase IVEY-9B08M059-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA group of business students and their professor travel to rural Kenya to work with Free The Children (FTC), an in-situ, non-governmental organization (NGO) that is focused on generational social change through education for children. This Canadian NGO has had considerable success in meeting this original objective and now sees health care and economic development concerns as being the next barriers to expansion of its educational thrust for the ...Starting at €8.20
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Pursue Your Dream or Move On? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Reinert, Sophus A.Article HBS-R2002M-EKnowledge and CommunicationA young social entrepreneur must decide whether to stick with her struggling start-up--a tomato paste company based entirely in Nigeria--or go to work for an investment group that funds small businesses in Africa. Where would she have the most impact? This fictional case study by Sophus A. Reinert features expert commentary by Acha Leke and Mira Mehta. This HBR Case Study includes both the case and the commentary. For teaching purposes, this rep...Starting at €8.20
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Piracy in Somalia (A)
Reinert, Sophus A.; Davies, AlissaCase HBS-718018-EEconomicsA Somali fisherman stands on a beach in early 2011, considering his options: should he embark in his tiny fishing vessel, or join a nearby pirate crew? His war-ravaged country, entering its twentieth year of civil war, was in the midst of a famine that had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and piracy had recently become the country's greatest claim to fame, securing ransoms to the tune of millions of US dollars in one of the poorest corners...Starting at €8.20
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Piracy in Somalia (B)
Reinert, Sophus A.; Davies, AlissaCase HBS-718019-EEconomicsA Somali fisherman stands on a beach in early 2011, considering his options: should he embark in his tiny fishing vessel, or join a nearby pirate crew? His war-ravaged country, entering its twentieth year of civil war, was in the midst of a famine that had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and piracy had recently become the country's greatest claim to fame, securing ransoms to the tune of millions of US dollars in one of the poorest corners...Starting at €5.74
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ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia
Reinert, Sophus A.; Nam, Sarah; Pan, Sisi; Werker, EricCase HBS-718029-EEconomicsDuring the summer of 2014, Alan Knight, General Manager of Corporate Responsibility at the integrated steel and mining company ArcelorMittal, observed the unfolding of an Ebola epidemic in Liberia and other countries in West Africa with great concern. On the one hand was the sheer tragedy of the calamity that struck the poverty-stricken country, recently emerged from a long and painful civil war; on the other, the fact that ArcelorMittal's mining...Starting at €8.20
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Piracy in Somalia (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Reinert, Sophus A.Teaching Note HBS-718043-EEconomicsTeaching note for cases 718018 and 718019.Starting at €0.00
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ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia, Teaching Note
Reinert, Sophus A.Teaching Note HBS-718045-EEconomicsTeaching note for case 718029.Starting at €0.00
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Angola Starts Now
Friedman, Jeremy; Reinert, Sophus A.Case HBS-719007-EEconomicsAfter five centuries of colonialism, four decades of civil war, an extended experiment with Marxism-Leninism, and nearly four decades of rule by a single man, Jos Eduardo Dos Santos, Angola finally has a chance to realize its enormous economic potentialStarting at €8.20
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Pursue Your Dream or Move On (HBR Case Study)
Reinert, Sophus A.Article HBS-R2002X-EA young social entrepreneur must decide whether to stick with her struggling start-up--a tomato paste company based entirely in Nigeria--or go to work for an investment group that funds small businesses in Africa. Where would she have the most impact? This fictional case study by Sophus A. Reinert features expert commentary by Acha Leke and Mira Mehta. For teaching purposes, this is the case-only version of the HBR case study. The commentary-onl...Starting at €8.20