Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Meehan, B; Levenson, Keohane, GCase SGSB-SM203-EStrategySince its founding in 1980, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public had supported the work of over 3,000 of the world’s most visionary social entrepreneurs; men and women who, in Ashoka founder Bill Drayton’s words, are tireless pioneers of “system-changing solutions that advance the world’s most urgent social problems.” Through these efforts, Ashoka was also widely credited with building the larger field of social entrepreneurship. And yet, just at t...Starting at €8.20
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Evolving Kiva's Impact: Introduction of Kiva Labs and Kiva Zip
Russell Siegelman, Sabrina ManvilleCase SGSB-E517-EEntrepreneurshipKiva.org was a website through which individuals could connect with opportunities to alleviate poverty via small-scale lending. Founded in 2005, the platform had grown impressively and had facilitated over $500m in loans by 2014. The scale Kiva had achieved was facilitated by its partnerships with microfinance institutions, which managed all of the lending operations for loans made by visitors to the Kiva site. Kiva’s team had diverse views of im...Starting at €8.20
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BrightSource: Challenges and Prospects for a Concentrated Solar Power Plant
Kennedy D; Schifrin DCase SGSB-P84-EEconomicsThe case presents the challenges confronting BrightSource, a company building a commercial-scale concentrated solar power plant in California in 2013: 1) environmentalists wanted to protect a threatened species at the site of the new plant, 2) competing solar power technology had become much cheaper in recent years, and 3) the company had been unable to get investors for its new thermal storage technology, which could be a game changer for the in...Starting at €8.20
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BrightSource: Challenges and Prospects for a Concentrated Solar Power Plant - Teaching note
Kennedy D; Schifrin DTeaching Note SGSB-P84TN-EEconomicsThe case presents the challenges confronting BrightSource, a company building a commercial-scale concentrated solar power plant in California in 2013: 1) environmentalists wanted to protect a threatened species at the site of the new plant, 2) competing solar power technology had become much cheaper in recent years, and 3) the company had been unable to get investors for its new thermal storage technology, which could be a game changer for the in...Starting at €0.00