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Method: Sustainable Design for the Home as Corporate Strategy
Larson, Andrea; York, JeffCase DARDEN-ENT-0094-EEntrepreneurshipThis minicase is one of 10 in a series written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. Method is a successful startup firm in San Francisco that has made sustainable design principles a guiding force its strategy. Unlike other firms, however, Method sells its products on performance, price, and aesthetics; health and environment are simply built into the design from the outset. Backe...Starting at €8.20
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Shaw Industries: EcoWorx and Cradle-to-Cradle Innovation in Carpet Tile
Larson, Andrea; York, JeffCase DARDEN-ENT-0095-EEntrepreneurshipThis is a minicase, one of 10 in a set of short cases written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. This minicase documents the technology and systems innovations behind Shaw's successful introduction of closed loop recyclable carpet tiles (EcoWorx), a disruptive innovation in the flooring industry.Starting at €8.20
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Corporate Greenhouse Gas Accounting: Carbon Footprint Analysis
Larson, Andrea; Teichman, WilliamTechnical Note DARDEN-ENT-0113-EEntrepreneurshipStakeholder climate change actions worldwide have prompted companies to measure their greenhouse gas emissions and reduce their carbon footprints by decreasing energy and fuel use. In the process, they are cutting costs, decreasing exposure to severe weather, reducing energy vulnerability, and potentially opening up revenue sources for carbon credit sales in the emerging markets for carbon trading. This note is effective in MBA, undergraduate and...Starting at €8.20
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Sustainability and Innovation: Frameworks, Concepts, and Tools for Product and Strategy Redesign
Larson, AndreaTechnical Note DARDEN-ENT-0138-EEntrepreneurshipThis technical note introduces the concepts and terms entrepreneurial innovators use in addressing sustainability. It explores the evolution of such terms as sustainable development, environmental justice, earth systems engineering, sustainable science, the Natural Step framework, industrial ecology, and biomimicry. It also explores how paradigms are created and replaced.Starting at €8.20
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B Corporation: A New Sustainable Business Model
Meier, Mark; Larson, AndreaTechnical Note DARDEN-ENT-0155-EEntrepreneurshipThis note provides background on a new certification process for B Corporations that enables companies to assess, compare, and protect the sustainability practices they integrate into corporate strategy. B Corporation status explicitly acknowledges stakeholder strategies and helps companies preserve triple bottom line accountability when and if they are sold/acquired.Starting at €8.20
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REI: Sustainability Strategy and Innovation in the Outdoor Gear and Apparel Industry
Larson, Andrea; Meier, MarkCase DARDEN-ENT-0162-EEntrepreneurshipMany companies view financial variables independently from ecological and social variables. Is it possible to hold one's organization equally accountable for financial performance and social responsibility? This field-based case is suitable for MBA and undergraduate courses or modules in sustainability and innovation, ethics, and corporate social responsibility. For REI, an outdoor gear and apparel manufacturer, the challenge lies in how to expan...Starting at €8.20
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Negociando una operación de capital riesgo (II): Estructuración del acuerdo e instrumentos contractuales
Segurado, Juan Luis; Roure, JuanTechnical Note EN-11Entrepreneurship, FinanceCuando se trata de estructurar las operaciones, y con independencia de su naturaleza, los inversores de capital riesgo buscan, fundamentalmente, maximizar su retorno, minimizar sus riesgos financieros y cubrirse frente a los posibles conflictos de interés que pueden surgir con los gestores de las compañías en las que invierten. Para ello, negocian la incorporación ?en los acuerdos de inversión? de una serie de mecanismos de control y de asignació...Starting at €8.20
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Padeinvest
Roure, Juan; de San José Riestra, AmparoCase E-176Entrepreneurship, Finance, Information TechnologiesEl caso aborda la creación y gestión de un grupo inversor, PADEINVEST, puesto en marcha por el grupo de PADE '10 de Madrid, para llevar a cabo actividades de inversión en grupo en startups. El caso recorre brevemente la creación del grupo y la motivación, sus parámetros de funcionamiento, la construcción de una cartera incipiente y las primeras inversiones. El caso utiliza además una de las inversiones, la tercera, para destacar la diferencia de ...Starting at €8.20
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The Barceló Group - Generational Change and Entrepreneurial Spirit
Segurado, Juan Luis; Roure, JuanCase E-99-ECorporate Governance, EntrepreneurshipThis case recounts the entrepreneurial experience and successful growth of the Barceló Group, one of the most important family-owned hotel chains in Spain, throughout its 75 years of history. The case first focuses on the transition process that marked the transfer of the company's management from the second to the third generation of the Barceló family. It then looks at the company's evolution in its pursuit of new growth opportunities and the p...Starting at €8.20
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Padeinvest
Roure, Juan; de San José Riestra, AmparoCase E-176-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, Information TechnologiesThis case examines the creation and management of an investment group, PADEINVEST, which was launched by the 2010 PADE graduating class in Madrid to engage in group investment activities in start-ups. The case briefly traces the creation of the group and the motivation behind it, its operating metrics, the assembly of its initial portfolio, and its first investments. The case also uses one of its investments, the third one, to highlight the dif...Starting at €8.20