IAE (Argentina)
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Project Impact: The Affordable Hearing Aid Project
Cordes E.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1472-EStrategyThis case introduces David Green, a social entrepreneur with the mission of making advanced medical technology affordable and available to those in the third world. It describes the growth and success of projects to develop, manufacture and distribute low-cost hearing aids and other basic medical technology in India, and presents a direct contrast to the traditional maximum profit model of the medical industry. After achieving success with Aurola...Starting at €8.20
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Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) India Programme: Creating value through corporate community involvement
Farmer M.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1447-EStrategyThis case describes the evolution of a community affairs initiative called the India Programme, run by the Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) Community Trust. ZFS (UKISA) is UK-based and specialises in general insurance and life assurance. It is part of the Zurich Financial Services group of companies, headquartered in Switzerland, and was formed in 2000 after the completion of the merger between Zurich Insurance of Switzerland and the UK-based in...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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A Puma vs. Giants: The rise of David
Fruechtnicht M.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1519-EStrategyAt the beginning of 2007 - for the first time in his 13 years at the helm of Puma - Jochen Zeitz was able to take a deep breath, reflect on the company's successful turnaround and, most importantly, contemplate the way ahead. After reinventing itself, creating a new market segment and demonstrating that the company could compete with its bigger brother Adidas, Puma was at a crossroads. It had become very profitable in the past decade and the stoc...Starting at €8.20
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The Freeplay Energy Group and Foundation (A)
Coles E.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1467-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Freeplay Energy Group was founded in 1995 to produce wind up radios. The company produced its first radios in 1996. It took its social responsibilities seriously from the beginning and in 1998 founded the Freeplay Foundation to enable the sustained delivery of radio information and education to the most vulnerable populations via self-powered radios. The company has transformed itself from a vertically integrated organization with internal ...Starting at €8.20
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Sekem: liberando una visión. Un enfoque artístico de la iniciativa emprendedora
Seelos, Christian; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1466StrategyLa iniciativa Sekem retrata una serie de complejas circunstancias que enmarcan las decisiones de Sekem para crecer y desarrollarse a lo largo de su trayectoria histórica, su iniciativa de desarrollo integral tanto en la esfera social como en la económica y cultural. El caso documenta la historia de la iniciativa y expone los mayores integrantes y sus relaciones internas y externas. Sekem fue fundada por Ibrahim Abouleish, un egipcio que había est...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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Puma contra los gigantes: El ascenso de David
Fruechtnicht M.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1519StrategyA principios de 2007, por primera vez en los 13 años que llevaba al mando de Puma, Jochen Zeitz decidió respirar hondo y reflexionar sobre el giro radical hacia el éxito que había dado la compañía y, lo que es más importante: contemplar el camino que tenía por delante. Después de reinventarse, crear un nuevo segmento de mercado y demostrar que la compañía podía competir con su hermana mayor, Adidas, Puma se hallaba en una encrucijada. En la últim...Starting at €8.20
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Entropy International. Enabling businesses to make a contribution to sustainable development
Seelos, Christian; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1454-EStrategyThis case documents the circumstances of managing the growth phase of a start-up company. Entropy International faces the unique challenges and opportunities of social entrepreneurship but also entrepreneurship in general. Founded by a visionary environmental activist in 1996 as an environmental consulting boutique in the United Kingdom, Entropy grew with the emerging needs of large multinational corporations to publicly report on and minimize th...Starting at €8.20
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Citigroup: Targeting Leadership in Global Growth
Lupu, Raluca; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1439-EStrategyIn 2002, Citigroup completed the integration of Banamex, whose acquisition in 2001 had made the company the largest corporate and retail bank in Mexico. The operations in Mexico generated more than US$1 billion in earnings in 2002, placing the country as Citigroup's most profitable outside the US, alongside Japan. However, while results were at top, competitors were starting to crowd in and rivalry between firms was starting to stiffen. In the ne...Starting at €8.20