World Vision International's AIDS Initiative

Challenging a Global Partnership
Authors: Bartlett, Christopher A.; Curran, Daniel F.
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Year: 2005
Company Name: World Vision
Number of pages: 23

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Abstract:

After 25 years of building a network of interdependent, national organizations delivering relief and development that are responsive to local needs, World Vision's International office is planning to implement a major global HIV/AIDS initiative that challenges the strategic direction, organizational capabilities, and even underlying values of its carefully constructed world partnership. Not only does the new AIDS initiative require much more central direction than is customary in this global partnership of World Vision organizations, each with its own independent board of directors, but it also is acknowledged to have little support among World Vision's donor base and even its internal organization. Involves a trigger decision about whether and how to proceed.