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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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Agoda: People Analytics and Business Culture (A)
Kenneth Goh; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B17C024-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn the spring of 2016, the chief executive officer of Agoda Company Pte. Ltd. (Agoda), a subsidiary of The Priceline Group, Inc., wanted to transform the firm’s human resource practices using data analytics. The idea was not just to get more data, but to use this data to help managers gain insights to make better decisions. The three main focal areas of this exercise were recruitment, performance evaluation, and compensation. As key executives wo...Starting at €8.20
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Black Canyon Coffee
Brian K. BoydCase IVEY-9B11M074-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThis case focuses on Black Canyon Coffee, as it begins to develop its strategy for the firm’s second decade. Founded in 1993, Black Canyon had grown to become the largest chain of coffee houses in Thailand in 2003. Over its first decade, it grew from a single location to 78 retail outlets, serving a mix of hot and cold coffee beverages, as well as Asian cuisine. Thus far, the company had been profitable, and had managed the threat posed by local ...Starting at €8.20
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Siam Canadian Foods Co. Ltd. (Spanish version)
John R. Kennedy; Tony S. Frost; Tom GleaveCase IVEY-9A97GS03Entrepreneurship, StrategyEl director de gerente y fundador de la compania Siam Canadian Foods Co. Ltd., basados en Bangkok consideraba las oportunidades de negocio emergentes en el pais vecino Birmania (tambien conocida como Myanmar). Aunque relativamente sea subdesarrollado comparado al resto de Asia Sur-Oriental, Birmania estuvo experimentando niveles aumentados de actividad de la inversion extranjera estos ultimos anos. Tailandia, que habia considerado entrar en Birma...Starting at €8.20
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JOG Sports: Sports Apparel and Ice Hockey in Thailand
Andrew Karl DeliosCase IVEY-9B13M138-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyJOG Sports, a sports apparel and sports marketing business, has crossed the psychologically important threshold of $1 million in annual sales. Although the company was started as a hobby and side interest of the chief executive officer (CEO) and main founder, management of the company soon became his only occupation. The scale of the company increased quickly, with the sports apparel business growing in product lines, geographic scope of sales an...Starting at €8.20
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Agoda: People Analytics and Business Culture (B)
Kenneth Goh; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B17C025-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategySupplement for product 9B17C024.Starting at €5.74
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Diana Uribe: From Radio to Podcasts
Liliana Lopez JimenezCase IVEY-9B20M102-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyDiana Uribe was a successful cultural personality in her native Colombia, best known for her national radio show about world history. Since 2000, the show had aired every Sunday on Caracol Radio, Colombia’s most popular news radio station. On October 9, 2Starting at €8.20
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Rappi: the Latin American Super App? (Spanish version)
Enrique Ramirez R.; Andres Gonzalez R.Case IVEY-W28186Entrepreneurship, StrategyRappi Inc. (Rappi) was an on-demand delivery mobile application (app) that allowed users in Latin America to shop online for groceries, meals, and other products and have these delivered to them. It also provided various other services, such as cash withdrawals and dog walking. Rappi was founded in 2015, and in less than five years, it had evolved from operating in improvised headquarters in a parking lot in Bogotá to becoming a member of an excl...Starting at €8.20
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Drift: The First Sales Hire
Roberge, Mark N.Case HBS-820103-EEntrepreneurshipDavid Cancel and Elias Torres, the co-founders of Drift, scaled their business to thousands of users and hundreds of thousands in revenue. However, they were falling short of the annual revenue target they communicated to the board of directors. Having scaled the business to date with a team of largely product and engineering resources, they contemplated bringing on their first sales hire. Within one week of announcing the plan for the hire, thre...Starting at €8.20
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Rappi: the Latin American Super App
Enrique Ramirez R., Andres Gonzalez R.Case IVEY-W25235-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyRappi Inc. (Rappi) was an on-demand delivery mobile application (app) that allowed users in Latin America to shop online for groceries, meals, and other products and have these delivered to them. It also provided various other services, such as cash withdStarting at €8.20