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Summa Equity: Building Purpose-Driven Organizations
Serafeim, George; Freiberg, DavidCase HBS-118028-EAccounting and ControlIn 2015, Reynir Indahl left top Nordic private equity firm Altor Equity Partners to found Summa Equity (Summa). After long contemplation following the financial crisis, Indahl was convinced the financial system was producing negative externalities and that the current private equity model adopted by most firms would no longer be successful. Summa was developed under a new private equity model that sought to "future-proof" businesses by focusing o...Starting at €8.20
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JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (A)
Serafeim, George; Freiberg, DavidCase HBS-118030-EAccounting and ControlIn 2017, JetBlue, the airline founded on the mission to "bring humanity back to air travel", was considering becoming one of the first companies to report its sustainability performance according to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) staStarting at €8.20
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JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (B)
Serafeim, George; Freiberg, DavidCase HBS-119044-EAccounting and ControlSupplement to case 118030.Starting at €5.74
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Facebook's Libra: The Privatization of Money
Di Maggio, Marco; Rouen, Ethan; Serafeim, George; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-120021-EAccounting and ControlStarting at €8.20
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Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (A)
Serafeim, George; Freiberg, DavidCase HBS-120040-EAccounting and ControlJarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques had spent the summer between their first and second years of their Harvard Business School MBA program fund raising for their start-up Venture Capital (VC) firm, Harlem Capital Partners. Harlem Capital was founded upon the principle that addressing the VC funding gap for minorities and women - whom received only 3 percent of total VC funding - could produce superior returns. Tingle and Pierre-Jacques were pa...Starting at €8.20
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Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab
Serafeim, George; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-124017-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY was considering the best path forward for his company has he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in the lab. The company hoped to create 500,000 tons of products by 2030, and by 2023, had produced proof of concepts of cotton, coffee, and cacao. Bueno had a number of decisions to ma...Starting at €8.20
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Arcos Dorados: Decarbonizing McDonald's in Latin America
Serafeim, George; Toffel, Michael W.; Buitrago, Jenyfeer Martinez; Cal, MarianaCase HBS-623017-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis case describes the decarbonization strategy of Arcos Dorados-McDonald's largest independent franchisee, operating in 20 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean-and how the company measured its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including those generated directly by the company and by all of its suppliers. Set in May 2022, the case also describes the challenges faced by the company to understand the composition of its carbon...Starting at €8.20
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Bundesautobahnen Group
de Santiago, Rafael; García Centenera, Iñigo; Izquierdo, DavidCase AD-367-EDecision AnalysisBundesautobahnen Group, a German construction company, has won a public tender to build (the first stretch of) a freewayan expressway between Berlin and Bremen, with a budget of 170 million of euros. The company neededs to optimize the costs, matching the estimates offered in the tender and improving the project's margin. One of the most important stages was the optimization of the earthwork along the route.Starting at €8.20
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Espresso House
de Santiago, Rafael; Carreras, Julián; Palaniswami, Ramesh; Vilà, JenniferCase AD-390-EDecision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, FinanceThe financial attractiveness of branded coffee shops attracted investments from the private equity industry in 2005. The case analyzes how Palamon Capital Partners, a private equity firm, used quantitative analysis to assess the risk of a 5-year growth investment in Espresso House, a branded coffee shop chain in Sweden.Starting at €8.20
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Cómo funciona la mente del directivo
de Santiago, Rafael; Iyengar, Sheena; Brion, SebastienDossier DOS-19Decision Analysis, Leadership and People Management, MarketingCada día nos vemos obligados a tomar múltiples decisiones. Conocer los mecanismos de nuestra mente nos ayudará a dar en el blanco.Starting at €15.00