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International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Alvarez, Jose B.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-518034-ELeadership and People ManagementIt is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact and reach of some of the IITA's most commercially viable products and technologies by working with the private sector, and 2) to address Nigeria's massive youth unemployment problem...Starting at €8.20
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NatureSweet
Alvarez, Jose B.; Reinhardt, Forest L.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-518002-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer of fresh tomatoes with sales across the U.S. and $329 million in 2016 revenues. CEO Bryant Ambelang treated NatureSweet more like a consumer-packaged goods manufacturer than an agricultural producer, with a focus on consistency, branding, margin and price stability, and a frontline-worker-centric ...Starting at €8.20
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Grupo xito: Facing Colombia's Competitive Grocery Retail Industry
Alvarez, Jose B.; Larangeira, Carla; Buitrago, Jenyfeer Martinez; Moreno, Miguel DiazCase HBS-520043-ELeadership and People ManagementGrupo xito, a leading South American retailer, faced declining market shares in Colombia in 2019 with the arrival of low-cost competitors and emerging digital trends. Originally founded in Medell n, xito had over the course of its seventy-year historStarting at €8.20