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Brunello Cucinelli: Ethical luxury, the luxury of ethics or what
Vaccaro, Antonino; Potito, GianmicheleCase BE-196-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe company Brunello Cucinelli is an Italian fashion house operating in what it calls the "absolute luxury goods sector," specializing in cashmere. Over time, it has become one of the most exclusive brands in the international informal luxury prêt-à-porter sector. The company, founded in 1978 by the stylist and philanthropist Brunello Cucinelli, employs 1,200 people and reported ?355.9 million in revenue in 2014.Starting at €8.20
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Whistleblowing Systems and Policies
Potito, Gianmichele; Aznar, Enrique; Vaccaro, AntoninoTechnical Note BEN-139-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis technical note provides some basic information about the functioning of intra- and interfirm whistleblowing systems. This work adopts a managerial perspective and not a legal one, so it does not enter into the legislative details of each country because of their complexity and their continuous evolution.Starting at €8.20
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Acton Institute - Teaching Note
Vaccaro, Antonino; Potito, GianmicheleTeaching Note BET-21-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate GovernanceThis is a flexible case that can be used in courses on social entrepreneurship, social innovation, business ethics and corporate social responsibility, among others. This case has three main objectives. The first is to make students aware of what think tanks are and the role they can play in business and society. The second is to learn how different, and critical, structuring a corporate governance system can be in a public policy institute as op...Starting at €0.00
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Brunello Cucinelli - Teaching Note
Vaccaro, Antonino; Potito, GianmicheleTeaching Note BET-20-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe company Brunello Cucinelli is an Italian fashion house operating in what it calls the "absolute luxury goods sector," specializing in cashmere. Over time, it has become one of the most exclusive brands in the international informal luxury prêt-à-porter sector. The company, founded in 1978 by the stylist and philanthropist Brunello Cucinelli, employs 1,200 people and reported ?355.9 million in revenue in 2014.Starting at €0.00
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Frozen Food Products: Cost of Capital
S.K. MitraCase IVEY-9B12N028-EFinance, StrategyMaria D’souza planned to expand her business by introducing a new product line of frozen foods. She wanted to estimate the attractiveness of the new expansion by estimating net present value (NPV) of the expected cash flows. Her main concern was to find a suitable discount rate to be applied to cash flows to ascertain the NPV of the project.D’souza’s consultant friend asked her to analyze cost of capital of similar companies operating in the same...Starting at €8.20
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Yash Building Centre: Planning for Expansion - Teaching Note
M. Kannadhasan; Vinay Goyal; S.K. MitraTeaching Note IVEY-8B18N003-EFinanceTeaching note for product 9B18N003.Starting at €0.00
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Yash Building Centre: Planning for Expansion
M. Kannadhasan; Vinay Goyal; S.K. MitraCase IVEY-9B18N003-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceYash Building Centre, based in Raipur, central India, was in the business of manufacturing fly ash bricks and blocks. At the beginning of 2016, after achieving decent growth and gaining goodwill among local builders and contractors, the managing partner was actively looking to expand business operations into tiles, pavers, and curbstones. He believed this expansion would improve the firm’s profitability by allowing it to take full advantage of it...Starting at €8.20
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Applied Mobile Labs: Valuation of a Start-Up
Jaslene Kaur Bawa; Vinay Goyal; S.K. MitraCase IVEY-9B16N022-EFinance, StrategyAn angel investor had invested seed capital in a start-up company that aggregated and sold value-added services for mobile telecommunications in India. The company had done well since its inception in 2009, but the revenue growth figures reported for 2014 were concerning. According to the performance report, the start-up had grown 12 per cent in 2014—less than half of the estimated industry revenue growth figure for mobile value-added services. T...Starting at €8.20
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Acton Institute: Unveiling the bond between individual liberty and religious principles
Vaccaro, Antonino; Potito, GianmicheleCase BE-200-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate GovernanceActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Poverty is an educational and public policy organization based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with international offices in Rome and Buenos Aires. The mission of the organization is to "promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles."Starting at €8.20
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Valuing Rajat Bhatia’s Business Plan
S.K. MitraCase IVEY-9B11N011-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, StrategyA final-year student at a business school estimated the net present value (NPV) of his proposed business plan — a tourism and transport business in India — using three different methods and encountered different valuation results. He approached the professor who had taught him valuation concepts in a finance course and wanted to know the reasons for the difference.Starting at €8.20