HBSP (USA)
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Salud Digna: Successfully Competing with For-Profit Organizations
Grossman, Allen S.; Garcia-Cuellar, ReginaCase HBS-311051-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Hugo Moreno, CEO of Salud Digna, was considering his growth options for the next three years. Would becoming a for-profit with access to greater capital be the best strategy or would this cause the organization to lose its social mission? Salud Digna provided diagnostic medical tests to the poor, had experienced rapid growth and was financially self-sufficient. Moreno was de...Starting at €8.20
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Mexico City Water Shortage
Macomber, John D.; Garcia-Cuellar, Regina; James, Griffin H.; Nellemann, FrederikCase HBS-212044-EFinanceTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In this case, a property company, a water privatizer, and municipal engineers explore the causes of and solutions to a severe water shortage in Mexico City, a great global capital. The protagonist is a real estate investor doing due diligence on the magnitude of the crisis, the impact on the firm's operations, and the likelihood of resolution. Due diligence includes intervie...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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We Actively Avoid Information That Can Help Us
Ho, Emily; Stackpole, ThomasArticle HBS-F2005B-EKnowledge and CommunicationWhy do people often resist knowledge that might benefit them? A new study suggests that they do so to protect their self-esteem.Starting at €8.20
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Mexico's Energy Reform
Vietor, Richard H.K.; Sheldahl-Thomason, HavilandCase HBS-717027-EEconomicsEnergy - both petroleum and electricity - had been terribly managed for decades in Mexico. The two national monopolies - PEMEX and CFE - were inefficient, overstaffed, corrupt, rife with subsidies, and losing money. Finally, in 2012, President Enrique Pena Nieto announced his intent to drastically reform both. Over the next two years, the Mexican constitution was amended, and a dozen implementing laws were passed, to break up the CFE, reorgani...Starting at €8.20
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Mexico: "A Mosaic of Different Realities"
Vietor, Richard H.K.; Sheldahl-Thomason, HavilandCase HBS-717051-EEconomicsA day after his inauguration as President of Mexico in 2012, Enrique Pe a Nieto announced a Pact for Mexico - a slate of institutional reforms for education, energy, fiscal policy, telecommunications, banking and antitrust. These initiatives, enacted over the next several years, were designed to alleviate a host of historic problems that had held back Mexico's economic development. By 2017, although the President's popularity was at an all-time ...Starting at €8.20
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Staging Two-sided Platforms
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Hagiu, AndreiCase HBS-808004-EStrategyFirms that aspire to develop two-sided platforms face a formidable challenge. Prospective users on each side will not invest in the platform until they are confident there will be enough users on the other side. Traditional strategies for dealing with this dilemma--subsidizing users or securing their exclusive affiliation--are costly and risky. Describes less costly staged strategies for building two-sided platforms. With the "vendor to two-sided...Starting at €8.20
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Scale without Growth: INFONAVIT's Expansion in the Mexican Mortgage Market
Campos, Paulina; Lopez, Marco; Stuart, GuyCase HBS-HKS101-EFinanceAccording to a World Bank report written in 2001, "in a modern, globally integrated Mexican economy, it is hard to argue for the continued existence of an institution such as INFONAVIT." The report went on to argue that the first-best option was "closing INFONAVIT." In the same year Victor Borras and a new team of managers took control of INFONAVIT under the new PAN government of Vicente Fox. In 2005 the fund issued 376,444 mortgage loans, one an...Starting at €8.20
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Mario Laborin and the Turnaround of Mexico's Nacional Financiera (B)
Andrews, Matthew; Quijano, Eugenio AmadorCase HBS-HKS244-EMexico went through a major political transition in 2000, when Vicente Fox was elected President. Change was in the air throughout the country, and especially in government entities. One such entity was NAFINSA, the national development bank that had a stellar history in the first half of the twentieth century building the Mexican stock exchange and financing public projects. Its more recent history was less impressive, with charges of political ...Starting at €5.74
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Providing Pensions for the Poor: Targeting Cash Transfers for the Elderly in Mexico
Levy, Dan; Coarasa, JorgeCase HBS-HKS787-EWhen the Mexican Congress approved the country's 2007 budget, it included an appropriation of 8.5 billion pesos allocated to provide non-contributive pensions to senior citizens. President Felipe Calderon wanted to introduce eligibility criteria that would ensure the new federally-funded pensions would go to poor seniors that would otherwise lack the means to sustain themselves. This case puts the reader in the shoes of Calderon's advisor, asking...Starting at €8.20