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Broad Air Conditioning and Environmental Protection
Authors: He, Zhi Yi; Sun, Meng; Beamish, Paul W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Broad Air Conditioning is a Chinese company with a proactive environmental attitude, but suffering from deteriorating financial results. The company founder and chief executive officer must decide whether to start producing electricity powered air conditioners to improve its financial results easily or stick to its ideal and only manufacture machines powered by heat...
Jieliang Phone Home! (A, B, C)
Authors: Shih, Willy; Bernstein, Ethan S.; Bilimoria, Nina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have discovered many ways to increase their performance. The case frames the role of the general manager in setting up work structures and compensation systems in a very traditional and explicit setting, one where linkages should be clearly visible yet assumptions are often deeply buried and implicit.
Brummer and the bracNet Investment
Authors: Ebrahim, Alnoor; Pirson, Michael; Mangas, Patricia
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
bracNet, a for-profit/nonprofit partnership, aims to establish Internet connectivity throughout Bangladesh. Should Patrik Brummer invest again, this time in a rural roll-out, which may have lower financial returns but greater social returns?
CDI (A)
Authors: Kayser, O.; Kazakova, E.; Santos, Felipe
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2009
Case (A) describes how Rodrigo Baggio in 1995 developed the first computer and citizen schools in Brazil to address the problem of digital exclusion. By 2005 the CDI network included almost 1,000 schools throughout Latin America. However, with the rapid growth came quality control problems and organisational complexities. In addition there was increasing competition from the government and from the private sector. Rodrigo and his team needed to re-assess the positioning of CDI while grappling with the complexities of managing a large network-based organisation. The key goal is to help students understand how to apply the concept of strategy to a social sector organisation. The learning applies to any values-based organisation that needs to identify its distinctive assets and capabilities for the strategy-making process. The take-away is how to re-define the market positioning and adopt measures that reinforce the organisation's distinctive assets, and avoid erosion of its core values. Secondary goals are to: (1) discuss social entrepreneur challenges (business model innovation, scaling up strategy); (2) develop sensitivity to the need to use financial and accounting information for the strategy development process in social-oriented organisations; and (3) redefine mission to avoid overlap with government and private-sector programmes (see case B).
IBM
Author: Marquis, Christopher
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This case describes the conception, development and implementation of the Corporate Services Corps, an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees.
Microsoft's Unlimited Potential
Authors: Rangan, V. Kasturi; Bell, Marie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2009
This case provides insight into how a large global corporation can address a base of the pyramid markets in developing countries, through commercial and citizenship activities.
Unauthorized Disclosure: Hewlett-Packard's Secret Surveillance of Directors and Journalist
Authors: Lawrence, Anne T.; Harris, Randall D.; Baack, Sally
Product Type: Cases
Source: Case Research Journal 28(1): Winter
Publication Year: 2008
In 2006, HP admitted it had hired outside investigators to spy on members of its board of directors and journalists to uncover the source of several leaks of confidential board deliberations. The investigators used methods, including "pretexting" (using an assumed identity in order to access others’ telephone records) which were possibly illegal and almost certainly unethical.
Phil Chan (A, B)
Authors: Beamish, Paul W.; Schaan, Jean-Louis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The case deals with a scam that has been run out of Nigeria since 1990. In it, foreign companies are approached for their assistance in facilitating an international transfer of funds in order to receive a very large but unearned commission...
Open Source: Salvation or Suicide?
Authors: Wilson, Scott; Kambil, Ajit; Schwartz, Jonathan; Levin, Eric; Pisano, Gary P. ; Bevilacqua, Michael J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2008
Amp Up, a wildly popular electronic-music game, is the brainchild of KMS's cherished programmers, who now spend their time trying to keep customers dazzled with upgrades. But a couple of start-ups have ripped off the idea using their own code - which is open source. Now they're demanding that KMS float with the rising tide and join the open-source community. How could the company make money without its IP? And why should it try?
e-Waste: West Africa Continues to Drown in the Rich World's Obsolete Electronics
Author: Consumers International
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Interviews
Source: Consumers International
Publication Year: 2008
Every month, hundreds of tons of obsolete computers, televisions and other household consumer electronics are arriving at ports in Ghana and Nigeria.
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