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Addiopizzo Travel: Fighting Mafia through market-based strategies
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, Tommaso; La Cara, BarbaraCase BE-188-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipAddiopizzo Travel is a travel agency and tour operator that pursues socially responsible tourism in Sicily (Italy) with a special focus on the fight against mafia. The mission of Addiopizzo Travel is to support a clean, anti-mafia economy by attracting non-Sicilian tourists (Italians and foreigners) and directing them to mafia-free facilities, i.e., hotels, restaurants, and other business activities that have obtained Addiopizzo anti-mafia certif...Starting at €8.20
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The Indego Africa Project (B): Genesis and launch of a competitive social enterprise
Plana Olías, Alicia; Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-204-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipPart B of the case The Indego Africa Project (A). Matt Mitro, a project finance attorney at an international law firm, and his father, Tom Mitro, founded Indego Africa on June 21, 2007. The organization (where "Indego" means "independence, development, governance") started as an Africa-centered nonprofit organization incorporated in Texas whose mission was to help Rwandan women by empowering them economically. Matt Mitro chose the nonprofit corp...Starting at €5.74
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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
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Samasource - Teaching Note
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoTeaching Note BET-19-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Information TechnologiesSamasource is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit enterprise that operates in the business process outsourcing (BPO) market. Its business activity consists of delivering digital services at competitive prices relying on a workforce of people living in the poorest regions of emerging economies, including suburban areas in India, Kenya and Uganda, among other countries. Particularly, Samasource obtains digital services contracts with multinational companies oper...Starting at €0.00
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Samasource
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-195-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Information TechnologiesSamasource is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit enterprise that operates in the business process outsourcing (BPO) market. Its business activity consists of delivering digital services at competitive prices relying on a workforce of people living in the poorest regions of emerging economies, including suburban areas in India, Kenya and Uganda, among other countries. Particularly, Samasource obtains digital services contracts with multinational companies oper...Starting at €8.20
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Riding the Wave: Financing Ventures Through Crowdequity
Klueter, Thomas Maximilian; de San José Riestra, AmparoCase E-187-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, Information TechnologiesThis case study helps entrepreneurs and start-ups to understand the various types of finance available to fund a business. It compares, in the context of the mobile app developer Wave, the pros and cons of resourcing using crowd equity, business angels and venture capital. The case also shows how the different finance sources might be appropriate at different stages of a company's growth.Starting at €8.20
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The Indego Africa Project (A): Genesis and launch of a competitive social enterprise
Plana Olías, Alicia; Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-203-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipMatt Mitro, a project finance attorney at an international law firm, and his father, Tom Mitro, founded INDEGO AFRICA (meaning INdependence, DEvelopment and GOvernance) on June 21, 2007. INDEGO started as an Africa-centered non-profit organization incorporated in Texas whose mission was to help Rwandan women through their economic empowerment. Matt chose the non-profit corporate form in order to emphasize the social mission and attract people to ...Starting at €8.20
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Addiopizzo Travel - Teaching Note: Fighting Mafia through market-based strategies
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, Tommaso; La Cara, BarbaraTeaching Note BET-14-EEntrepreneurshipThe case "Addiopizzo Travel" can be taught as a stand-alone case or as a complement and follow-up to the case titled "Addiopizzo: Mafia, Anti-Mafia or Hiding in the Grey Area" (BE-172-E). The case study traces the history of Addiopizzo Travel, a travel agency and tour operator founded in Sicily (Italy) in 2010 by three young social entrepreneurs previously involved in the activities of "Addiopizzo," an NGO devoted to the fight against mafia brib...Starting at €0.00
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The Indego Africa Project (A and B): Financials
Plana Olías, Alicia; Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BES-1-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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Blurring the Boundaries Between For Profit and Nonprofit Organizations: The Social Enterprises' Model
Ramus, Tommaso; Vaccaro, AntoninoTechnical Note BEN-132-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipThis case study discusses the progressive convergence between the "traditional" business-oriented and the nonprofit/social sectors and, contextually, the emergence of a new business model, i.e., the social enterprise. Social enterprises are organizations that combine the commercial and social logics in unprecedented ways.Starting at €8.20