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Shell in Nigeria
Authors: Hendry, John; Mellor, Kate; Hak, Zain; Ade-Ajayi, Funmi; Vieira, Waldir; Zou, Yuan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Cambridge Judge Business School
Publication Year: 2000
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This case reviews the public controversy surrounding Shell's operations in Nigeria in the 1990s...
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...
How Manu Chandaria Mastered the African Market
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Interviews
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2013
In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton conducted by Ivorian entrepreneur and author Eric Kacou, Kenyan business tycoon Manu Chandaria reveals some of his secrets to business success in Africa. Chandaria discusses how other businesses and entrepreneurs can follow his lead and pursue socially responsible practices that benefit the communities in which they work.
Capitec Bank: Leveraging Banking Innovations to Attract Wealthier Customers
Authors: Barnard, Helena; Ansell, Gwen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business; Gordon Institute of Business Science
Publication Year: 2012
Capitec Bank was a new bank established at the end of apartheid to offer banking services and loans to the large numbers of low-income potential customers newly opened to economic progress and aspiration by the end of the discriminatory system. The case will be useful for postgraduate MBA courses and short courses focused on a key challenge of doing business at the so-called “base of the pyramid”: how successfully can an enterprise in a changing competitive climate both continue to consolidate and develop its low-income market, while at the same time diversifying its reach into higher-income banking markets?
EcoPost: Financing a Green Startup in Africa
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, EcoPost manufactures construction posts out of the thousands of tons of plastic waste produced daily by the city. However, they face many obstacles overcoming skepticism from investors, largely because of their relatively poor financial record keeping...
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.
Infant HIV Diagnostics: Supply Chain in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Deo, Sarang; Ben-Har, Avidan; Shields, Bill; Naware, Mihir
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2012
Roger Osayende, a former management consultant, must advise the Ministry of Health of Ektu, a fictional country in Central Africa, on how to implement a new point-of-care diagnostic test for infants with HIV. A new point-of-care device was about to be introduced, which would obviate the need for this centralized processing and the resulting diagnostic delay. The key decision under consideration is where to place the devices to maximize their effectiveness...
Competing by Saving Lives: How Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies Create Shared Value in Global Health
Authors: Peterson, Kyle; Kim, Samuel; Rehrig, Matthew; Stamp, Mike
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: FSG
Publication Year: 2012
This report highlights how pharmaceutical and medical device companies are creating shared value in global health by enhancing their competitiveness while simultaneously addressing the global burden of disease...
First Quantum Minerals vs. Eurasian Natural Resources
Authors: Serafeim, George; Knauer, Andrew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The case describes the battle between First Quantum Mineral and Eurasian Resources over mines in Democratic Republic of Congo...
Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd: Linking Compensation to Sustainability Metrics
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Serafeim, George; Li, Shelley Xin; Knight, Alan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Robert Venter, second-generation Chief Executive of family-owned Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd, considered the pros and cons of more clearly linking the firm's compensation system to sustainability performance. Having made a clear commitment to sustainable development, Venter was confident that the commitment was shared across the senior management team. However, there appeared to be more acceptance in the operating units for meeting financial targets than for meeting sustainability targets. Did the existing incentive structure send the correct message about the sustainability-oriented corporate strategy?
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