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EDF and the Energy Access Programme
Authors: Hanson, M.; Hopman, N.; Coolidge, A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2009
Electricite de France, France's main electricity generation and distribution company and a major player in European energy markets, began a handful of pilot projects in the early 1990s, providing electricity access to off-grid rural consumers in Africa.
Compassionate Manufacturing: Doing Business with the Poor
Author: Herbst, Kris
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source:
Publication Year: 2003
This article focuses on entrepreneur David Green and his financially successful nonprofit manufacturing company, Aurolab, which produces surgically implanted artificial lenses for cataract patients in developing countries.
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll
Authors: Bloom, D. E.; Bloom, S. R.; Khanna, Tarun
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This case explores the role that MTV, with its heavy diet of music and general youth-oriented media content, plays in spreading public-service messaging to contain the scourge of HIV/AIDS worldwide.
Socially Responsible Pricing: Lessons from the Pricing of AIDS Drugs in Developing Countries
Authors: Smith, N. Craig; Vachani, Sushil
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2004
Corporate social responsibility has major implications for pricing decisions in some markets. An extreme case is the pricing of life-saving drugs in developing countries...
ASAFE
Authors: Ernst, Andreas; Martin, Maximilian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Publication Year: 2003
ASAFE empowers entrepreneurial women in Cameroon to take advantage of the opportunities that private enterprise and initiative can provide for economic betterment. Founded in 1989, ASAFE began to promote e-commerce and e-readiness in 1999.
South African Mining and Asbestos-Related Diseases (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Publishing Company
Publication Year: 2006
These cases explain the history of asbestos mining in South Africa, the complicated relationship between the multinational companies and an apartheid and post-apartheid South African regime, and details the struggles and issues that many ARD-afflicted South Africans faced in bringing the multinationals to justice and seeking redress.
ExxonMobil and the Chad/Cameroon Pipeline (A, B)
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2003
This case presents the dilemma of ExxonMobil as it factors in the ethics issues related to the environment and cultural differences in deciding whether to proceed with building a pipeline in Chad and Cameroon, two of the poorest and most corrupt developing countries in West Africa.
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...
Pharmaceuticals and the Developing World
Author: Kremer, Michael
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Economic Perspectives. Vol. 16, Num. 4, Fall 2002
Publication Year: 2002
This article reviews a set of reasons for market failures around the provision of drugs in poor countries, and then discusses various policy prescriptions. It places the corporate experience within a larger public policy context.
Terry Rhodes (A, B)
Authors: Mullins, J; Karim, A.; Putimahtama, T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: London Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Since its inception in March 1998, Celtel, a wireless service provider, set out to change the way business was done in Africa and to prove the transformative effects business could have on the continent and its people.
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