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Strategies for Sustainable Development Course

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Course Publication Date: 06/2012 Product ID#: 1-429-257 Length: 524pages

The Strategies for Sustainable Development course is comprised of seven teaching modules that prepare the student to address the most critical issues at the intersection of business and sustainability. Together they address several facets of the competitive aspects of the corporate response to sustainability.

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Strategies for Sustainable Development—Module 4

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Module Publication Date: 06/2012 Product ID#: 1-429-264 Length: 108pages

This is the fourth of seven modules in the Strategies for Sustainable Development Course. In module 4, students identify the benefits and risks associated with bringing sustainability strategies to the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP), the billions of people who live on less than $3,000 per year in the informal economy of the developing world, and explore the challenges and constraints fa...

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Strategies for Sustainable Development—Module 5

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Module Publication Date: 06/2012 Product ID#: 1-429-265 Length: 52pages

This is the fifth of seven modules in the Strategies for Sustainable Development Course. Module 5 explores sustainability as a market strategy for new entrants and companies that seek to develop “hybrid” business models that merge for-profit and non-profit strategies. This new organizational type is alternatively called the Fourth Sector, social enterprises, for-benefit, or B corpo...

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ABT Associates: Scaling Indoor Residual Spraying for Malaria Prevention in Africa

by Ravi Anupindi, Colm Fay

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 02/2013 Product ID#: 1-429-272 Length: 36pages

In the summer of 2011 Abt Associates was awarded a contract to implement indoor residual spraying (IRS) in up to 17 countries in sub-Saharan Africa based on successes the company had with its IRS program in Uganda. The company had come a long way since it took over the Uganda project in 2009 from the previous contractor.

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Note on How to Write a Teaching Note

by GlobaLens

Product Type: Conceptual Note Publication Date: 05/2012 Product ID#: 1-429-016 Length: 8pages

This note is available FREE of CHARGE; simply click the product preview pdf and access the complete document. This note is intended to give you a basic overview on how to write a teaching note. In general, there are seven major sections of a teaching note: 1. Case Overview 2. Teaching Objectives 3. Pedagogy 4. Case Analysis 5. Assignment Questions 6. Teaching Plan 7. Conclusion Aft...

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Oxfam-Swiss Re Micro-insurance Partnership in Ethiopia

by Jonathan Doh, Ted London

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 03/2012 Product ID#: 1-429-185 Length: 22pages

Winner of the 2012 Oikos Foundation Casewriting Competition. Swiss Re, a large global reinsurance company, has partnered with Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization, to provide the poor with risk reduction support. The partnership's evolution shows students many common inter- and intra-organizational challenges. For example, the need to overcome interna...

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SMART: Global Urban Mobility Solutions

by Nigel Melville

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 12/2010 Product ID#: 1-428-964 Length: 27pages

SMART works to develop more efficient, environmentally and socially sustainable transportation systems in cities around the world. Its key approach is the Integrated Hub Network - a network that accesses several transportation modes in one place, while utilizing real-time transportation updates and information kiosks. Students help director Sue Zielinski pitch the Los Angeles proje...

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eGovernance in Andhra Pradesh

by C.K. Prahalad

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 12/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-151 Length: 51pages

Partnering with business to deliver government services electronically is fundamentally altering the relationship between government and citizens in Andhra Pradesh, the fifth-largest state in India. Government processes are more transparent; bribes paid to officials to facilitate transactions through a bureaucratic, paper-based system are eliminated. Citizens find it easy to pay bi...

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Selling Health

by C.K. Prahalad

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 12/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-156 Length: 27pages

Around the world, 2.2 million people die from diarrheal disease every year. Children are especially at risk - one child dies every 30 seconds. India alone contributes thirty percent of the world's diarrheal deaths. By teaching and demonstrating the benefits of handwashing through both UN and branded programs that reach into the villages, Hindustan Lever Ltd. is reducing infectious...

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Ziqitza Healthcare Limited

by Venkataramani Srivatsan

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 07/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-095 Length: 18pages

This case is featured as part of the Next Billion/WDI 2010 Case Writing Competition. It centers around Ziqitza Healthcare Limited, a private ambulance company in India which just secured its first governmental contract with the state of Rajasthan to serve its 56 million inhabitants. The case opens with a detailed overview of company background and business model, then discusses the...

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Better Place: Charging Into the Future

by Andrew Hoffman, Arie Jongejan

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 05/2010 Product ID#: 1-428-946 Length: 26pages

With partnerships and developments in nations across the globe, Better Place seemed poised to succeed in the burgeoning electric vehicle market. Yet Better Place’s proposition relied on a revolutionary shift in the automobile industry. Would the company witness the widespread adoption of electric vehicles in the near future, or would competing technologies, environmental regulation...

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Nanocerox

by Thomas C. Kinnear

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 10/2009 Product ID#: 1-428-884 Length: 16pages

Nanocerox is a start-up company based in Ann Arbor, MI, that provides nanopowder based research and development solutions for corporate customers. Powders are used in everyday items such as ceramic plates, cell phone covers, and metal coatings. Nanopowders, which are smaller powders made from increasingly pure elements, have a whole host of new, high-technology applications, ranging from microelectronics, to prosthetics, to more durable defense equipment

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Voices of the BoP (VIDEO)

by Ted London

Product Type: Audio/Video Publication Date: 07/2009 Product ID#: 1-428-841 Length: 1minutes

View video. This video accompanies the case Global Seeds to Village Farmers, and provides CARE’s and PEACE's view on why the want to explore more partnerships with “corporates”. In the video, K. Nimmaiah (Executive Director of PEACE), K. Sukumaran (CARE India; CAHSE Project Leader), and Kangovi Vasu (CARE India; CASHE Partnership Coordinator) describe their partnership. For CARE,...

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Global Seeds to Village Farmers: Hearing the Voices at the BoP

by Ted London

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 12/2008 Product ID#: 1-428-612 Length: 11pages

Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., the hybrid corn company division of Dupont, has engaged with PEACE (People’s Action for Creative Education) to serve the base of the pyramid markets in India. The partnership between Pioneer and PEACE allows Pioneer to distribute its quality seeds to village farmers through PEACE. This is an example of a for-profit/non-profit partnership serving...

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AMREF & Guardian in Katine Village

by Christie L. Nordhielm

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 02/2008 Product ID#: 1-428-661 Length: 11pages

AMREF (African Medical and Research Foundation) is an NGO working on health-related issues in Africa; the Guardian is one of the largest newspapers in the UK. As a part of expanding its coverage on development, the Guardian formed a partnership with AMREF to work on development issues in Katine, a village in eastern Uganda. However, as the partnership developed, issues regarding cultural differences and questions of sustainability began to rise.