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Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund: Investing Like a Feminist in the #MeToo Era
David T.A. Wesley; Alexandra RothCase IVEY-9B19C013-ELeadership and People ManagementThe senior vice-president for sustainable investing at the U.S.-based Pax World Funds, a leader in socially responsible investing, needed to identify and invest in companies for the company's Pax Ellevate Global Women's Leadership Fund, an investment fund that promoted labour rights through gender equality. The fund had more than US$200 million in assets under management, a 25 per cent one-year rate of return, and a three-year annual rate of retu...Starting at €8.20
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Superior Manufacturing Co. (Spanish version)
Hawkins, David F.; Cohen, Jacob; Culliton, James WCase HBS-105S16Accounting and ControlManagement must extract relevant cost data from the company's cost accounting system for product line decisions. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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Octane Service Station (Spanish Version)
Hawkins, David F.Case HBS-107S13Accounting and ControlEl propietario de una estación de servicio debe preparar estados financieros.Starting at €8.20
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Masschallenge, Inc.: Launching a Non-profit Business Accelerator (A)
Gordon K. Adomdza; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B13M013-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyMassChallenge Inc. is a large non-profit startup accelerator that connects new ventures with other stakeholders within an established business ecosystem. For this new company to engage stakeholders in the numbers envisaged and create a crowd-sourced deal management system, the founders need to develop a model that brings in as many quality or attractive startups as possible. Instead of taking equity in participating ventures as traditional accele...Starting at €8.20
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Launch of the Ford Fiesta Diesel: The World's Most Efficient Car
Francis Spital; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B10M040-EStrategyThe case describes the challenges faced by Ford and other automobile manufacturers in an era of declining oil reserves and volatile fuel prices. The Ford diesel decision seems to reflect classic thinking constrained by mental models that were developed in a different world. Diesels constitute over 50 per cent of automobile sales in Europe, because fuel is extremely expensive there. If fuel gets extremely expensive in the United States, one would ...Starting at €8.20
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Power Gig: The Rise (and Fall) of Music Games
David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B13A011-EMarketingThe chairman and chief executive officer of a manufacturer of entry-level musical instruments decides to take advantage of the popularity of music video games by creating a gaming division. After spending $30 million on product development, the company launches its first music video game just as the market for this subgenre has fallen into a steep decline. The case discusses the specific attributes of this music video game that may have doomed it...Starting at €8.20
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Wareham SC Systems, Inc.
Hawkins, David F.Case HBS-110015-EAccounting and ControlCFO tests company's revenue recognition practices against the recently issued SAB 101 requirements and proposes plan for adoption of SAB 101.Starting at €8.20
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Wareham SC Systems, Inc., Teaching Note
Hawkins, David F.Teaching Note HBS-110016-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Note for [110015].Starting at €0.00
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Enman Oil, Inc. (E)
Hawkins, David F.Case HBS-111046-EAccounting and ControlCompany pursues ways to reduce its debt to equity ratio by resorting to off balance sheet debt transactions.Starting at €5.74
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Hips Feel Good - Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty (Spanish version)
Thomas Gey; Nick Nugent; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B07AS010Marketing, StrategyDove is one of Unilever's better-known personal care brands. It has significant top-of-mind awareness among women in many countries. In an attempt to increase sales volume by 80 per cent, Unilever re-launched Dove in 2004. The campaign asks the question What is real beauty? and attempts to redefine it in ways that challenge commonly portrayed stereotypes. This case examines the re-launch of Dove, Unilever's well-known international personal care ...Starting at €8.20