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A New Model for the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Institute of OneWorld Health
Schoen, Oliver; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1480-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case introduces the Institute of OneWorld Health, a company dedicated to producing drugs for neglected diseases and the first non-profit pharmaceutical company in the world. Founded in 2000 by Dr. Victoria Hale, IOWH took expired and donated patent compounds and developed them through all the stages of clinical testing and approval into drugs to fight the world's most destructive diseases, usually occurring in Third World countries where per...Starting at €8.20
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International Expansion of Escuela Nueva: A Transformative Pedagogy on a Global Scale
Hehenberger, Lisa; Moral, N.; Mair, JohannaCase SM-1556-EEntrepreneurshipThis case study presents the challenging task of expanding the widely successful Escuela Nueva pedagogy on a global scale. Escuela Nueva provides a cost effective, replicable and scalable solution to improve the quality of basic education in low income schools. It started in rural Colombia, but has since expanded principally to a large number of Latin American countries. Evidence shows that wherever Escuela Nueva is implemented, children become ...Starting at €8.20
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Saga Falabella: Investing in a New Store
Hepp R.; Prada A.; Martínez Abascal, EduardoCase F-776-EFinanceSaga Falabella, the largest department store chain in Latin America, is considering opening a new store in Arequipa. The profit-loss accounts, balance sheets and asset and shareholder cashflows are analyzed, as well as profitability, project risks, and other factors which could influence the decision. A discussion is presented of which cashflows should be included in the project, and which should not.Starting at €8.20
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Committee for Democracy in Information Technology (CDI)
Vergés S.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1453-EStrategyThis is the first of a case series on Social Entrepreneurship written in collaboration with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The Comite para Democratizaçao da Informática (CDI) was a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded by Rodrigo Baggio in Brazil in 1995. Its mission was to set up schools to teach computer skills to low-income communities so that slum residents could begin to move into the mainstream of society and...Starting at €8.20
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Entropy International. Enabling Businesses to Make a Contribution to Sustainable Development - Teaching Note
Seelos, Christian; Mair, JohannaTeaching Note DGT-33-EStrategyNote prepared as an aid to instructors in the classroom use of case DG-1454-E Entropy International. Enabling Businesses to Make a Contribution to Sustainable Development.Starting at €0.00
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Saga Falabella: Inversión en una nueva tienda
Hepp R.; Prada A.; Martínez Abascal, EduardoCase F-776FinanceSaga Falabella, el mayor grupo de tiendas por departamentos en Latinoamérica, se plantea abrir una nueva tienda en Arequipa. Se analizan las cuentas de resultados, balances y cash flow del activo y del accionista. Se analiza la rentabilidad y riesgo del proyecto y otros factores que influyen en la decisión. Se discute qué cash flow deben incluirse en el proyecto y cuáles no.Starting at €8.20
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Saga Falabella: Investing in a New Store (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Hepp R.; Prada A.; Martínez Abascal, EduardoCase F-776-PBFinanceSaga Falabella, the largest department store chain in Latin America, is considering opening a new store in Arequipa. The profit-loss accounts, balance sheets and asset and shareholder cashflows are analyzed, as well as profitability, project risks, and other factors which could influence the decision. A discussion is presented of which cashflows should be included in the project, and which should not.Starting at €8.20
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Merger of Three. The Integration of Allianz, AGF and Athena in Spain
Lupu, Raluca; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1404-EStrategyAt the end of 1997 Allianz, the German insurance group, acquired AGF, a key player in the French market. With this move Allianz not only reinforced its strategy of multilocality, but also added momentum to the ongoing consolidation process in the European and global insurance sector. In the course of the merger implementation process several issues appeared; among the most prominent, the integration of existing businesses (subsidiaries) in other ...Starting at €8.20
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Waste Concern: convertir un problema en un recurso
Mitchell, Jordan; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1502Entrepreneurship, StrategyEn septiembre de 2005, los cofundadores de Waste Concern, una organización dedicada al reciclaje de residuos en Bangladesh, consideraron realizar cambios en su modelo para que el Gobierno municipal aprobara su proyecto de construir una instalación de compostaje a gran escala. Desde su fundación en 1995, Waste Concern había estado siguiendo un modelo de compostaje descentralizado mediante el cual cada planta era una operación a pequeña escala que ...Starting at €8.20
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Waste Concern: Turning a Problem into a Resource
Mitchell, Jordan; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1502-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyAs of September 2005, the co-founders of Waste Concern, an organization dedicated to improving waste recycling in Bangladesh, are considering making a change to their model in order to get approval from the municipal government for a large-scale composting site. Since its inception in 1995, Waste Concern has followed a decentralized composting model whereby each composting site is a small-scale operation processing 3 tons of organic waste per day...Starting at €8.20