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The Cheetah Conservation Fund Bush Project
Authors: Hecht, Peter; Walls, Judith
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Laurie Marker, head of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, is trying to form a for-profit institution, the Bush Project, to control the bush encroachment problem in Namibia. Bush encroachment not only destroys the general ecosystem, but it also has a harmful impact on the Cheetah population...
Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Programme in Rural Bangladesh
Authors: Richardson, Don; Ramirez, Ricardo; Haq, Moinul
Product Type: Cases
Source: TeleCommons Development Group
Publication Year: 2000
GrameenPhone is a commercial operation providing cellular services in both urban and rural areas of Bangladesh, with approximately 40,000 customers. A pilot programme of GrameenPhone, through the Grameen Bank and a wholly owned subsidiary called Grameen Telecom, is enabling women members of the Grameen Bank's revolving credit system to retail cellular phone services in rural areas...
CEI and NEAR
Authors: Manno, Kimberly M.; Lerner, Josh; Rubin, Julia S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Community Development Venture Capital Alliance
Publication Year: 1998
This case study provides an opportunity to learn more about valuing a company and negotiating a transaction...
Wal-Mart and Vancouver, Canada
Author: von der Porten, Suzanne
Product Type: Cases
Source: Selkirk College
Publication Year: 2005
The debate among retailers, local residents, the city council and Wal-Mart captures some of the tumult around the role of multinational corporations in the global economy and their effects on societies and the environment. In the context of this controversy, what responsibility does Wal-Mart have to its employees, overseas product manufacturers, factory workers, indigenous people, and local residents? Who are other stakeholders in Vancouver City Council's decision on whether to allow the rezoning? Who are stakeholders with no say in the decision? Does the Vancouver council have any business preventing Wal-Mart from setting up a business in Vancouver? What lessons can be learned?
Eco-Tourism at the Dana Reserve
Authors: Bird, Laura; Linowes, Richard
Product Type: Cases
Source: Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program
Publication Year: 2004
The Feynan Lodge was meant to be an economically self-sustaining eco-tourism lodge after its opening, but projected staffing and operational costs were daunting.
Corposol
Authors: Austin, James E.; Ogliastri, Enrique
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1998
Traces the evolution of Corposol, a nongovernmental organization dedicated primarily to lending to low-income microentrepreneurs. Its growth has made it the largest microenterprise lender in Colombia...
Corpomedina: Social and Economic Development
Authors: Sanz, Luis; Pratt, Lawrence
Product Type: Cases
Source: The World Resources Institute
Publication Year: 1998
As part of its strategy to develop tourism in an economically depressed zone of Venezuela, Corpomedina formed an independent foundation aimed at improving the quality of life for the local population through health, cultural, and educational programs, and through the creation of micro-enterprises...
In the Shadow of the City
Authors: Reed, James; Richardson, Nicholas; Donnellon, Anne
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1990
Traces the history of a collaborative effort to create an organization to manage a major international development project in the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Focuses on a serious set of disagreements which develops several months into the project between the two principals, an Ethiopian woman who founded the project and a British entrepreneur who is the coordinator of the donor consortium...
The Finca Esperanza Verde
Authors: Nielsen, Tucker; Linowes, Richard
Product Type: Cases
Source: Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program
Publication Year: 2004
Finca Esperanza Verde was created to promote sustainable development and environment conservation in San Ramón. Its success, in fact, was attributable to its ability to translate this mission into action. Would hoards of tourists marching through really contribute to the sustainable development of the area? Would it place FEV's fragile eco-system at risk?
The BRAC and Aarong Commercial Brands
Authors: Quelch, John A.; Laidler, Nathalie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
This case discusses nonprofit management and managing nonprofit and for-profit initiatives within the same organization.
AES Global Values
Authors: Strimling, Andrea L.; Nichols III, Charles A.; Paine, Lynn Sharp; Crawford, Robert J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2000
Members of the development team for the AES Corp.'s power plant project in India must decide between more expensive technology that would enable the plant to meet more demanding U.S. environmental standards or less costly technology that would meet local environmental standards and free up funds for contributions to other needs of communities surrounding the projected plant.
Advanced Micro Devices and Capital Area Training Foundation
Author: Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College
Product Type: Cases
Source: Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College
Publication Year: 2004
Advanced Micro Devices has developed a collaborative model to support the development of a well-trained local workforce at the company's primary manufacturing site in Austin, TX.
Northeast Ventures: January 1996
Authors: Jackson, Eric K.; Weiner, Malcolm S.; Lerner, Josh
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1997
Northeast Ventures, a venture capital fund focusing on the development of Northeastern Minnesota, seeks to combine social goals with financial returns. This marriage poses several challenges.
Posada Amazonas
Authors: Revilla, Jesus; Perez, Felipe
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN)
Publication Year: 2003
Describes the story of Posada Amazonas, a tourist lodge in the Peruvian jungle, which resulted from a collaboration agreement between the native community Eseja de Infierno and the tourism firm Rainforest Expeditions (RFE)...
Rick Surpin (A, B, C)
Authors: Hanson, Kirk O.; Bollier, David; Rowlands, Penelope
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Business Enterprise Trust
Publication Year: 1992
A long-time community development worker creates hundreds of jobs for low-income women and minorities by forming a for-profit home health care cooperative, Cooperative Home Care Associates...
Saudi Arabia
Authors: Vietor, Richard; Evans, Rebecca
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Provides a vehicle to explore Islamic development and political issues within BGIE (business, government, and international economy). Set in early 2002, the case focuses on Crown Prince Abdullah's efforts to liberalize a failing rentier state, that had been dependent on petroleum for too long...
BRAC
Author: Quelch, John A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
BRAC is the world's largest NGO and has over the past 20 years experienced tremendous rates of growth. The case looks at diversity within the organization and the aspects of management that have made the organization so successful...
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