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Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)
Authors: Jones, Geoffrey G.; Ghanem, Lana
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The case is concerned with Elia Nuqul, the founder of Jordanian-based Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. The case is positioned within the wider context of the regional conflict in Palestine and Israel, and it provides a vehicle for exploring the role and responsibility of entrepreneurs, if any, in such conflicts...
Employee Engagement and CSR: Transactional, Relational, and Developmental Approaches
Author: Mirvis, Philip
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2012
This article looks at the relevance of corporate social responsibility for engaging employees, including its impact on their motivation, identity, and sense of meaning and purpose...
Snehalaya
Authors: Chachan, Supil; Porwal, Pradyot
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Snehalaya is an NGO in the Ahmednagar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The case provides a brief background of the sex trade in India to explain the gravity of the situation. It then discusses the NGO founder's upbringing and how it influenced him to serve society…
Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods
Authors: Coates, John; Rose, Clayton; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice in the face of changing legal norms...
The Promise of Impact Investing
Authors: Rangan, V. Kasturi; Appleby, Sarah; Moon, Laura
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This note provides an overview of the impact investing industry, a new and burgeoning field of investments seeking to create social and environmental benefits while also generating a financial return...
El Paso's Sale to Kinder Morgan
Authors: Coates, John; Rose, Clayton; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
On October 16, 2011, El Paso agreed to sell itself to Kinder Morgan for just over $21 billion. Shareholders filed suit, arguing that the process was tainted by conflict and that a higher price could be obtained...
RLEK: Survival with the Real Bottom Line
Authors: Mukhopadhyay, Jiban; Garg, Mayank; Oli, Saumya; Kumar, Amit
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The case briefs the reader on RLEK’s background as a non-governmental organization, the reason for its inception, and its current methodology and strategy. The case also discusses the various problems faced by RLEK in its day-to-day operations, including intense competition, employee attrition, non-streamlined operations, and challenges to its operating principle of “the real bottom line”...
IPODERAC: Finding the Path Towards Sustainability
Authors: Villamizar, Francisco Layrisse; Lozano, Gerardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Using an educational model based on the concept of personal development through honourable work, IPODERAC has successfully combined its desire to be financially self-sufficient with its goal of teaching educational values, responsibility and discipline to the children in its care, thus enabling them to develop a sense of belonging and some useful skills for life. This case explores the inception and the long evolution of IPODERAC’s educational model, as the organization faces a constant search for production projects that will enable it to generate income.
Bright Lights, No City: An African Adventure on Bad Roads with a Brother and a Very Weird Business Plan
Author: Alexander, Max
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Hyperion
Publication Year: 2012
At age 47, Whit Alexander, the American co-founder of the Cranium board game, decided to start a new business selling affordable goods and services to low-income villagers in Ghana, West Africa. His brother Max, a journalist, came along to tell the story...
Mobius Motors: Building an African Car
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Mobius Motors manufactures and sells low-cost cars in the Kenyan market. However, Mobius's fleet of vehicle is still currently very small, and the company faces many strategic challenges on both the demand and the supply side of the business.
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