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Indupalma (A1, A2)
Authors: Fernandez, D; Trujillo, D; Gutierrez, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network
Publication Year: 2003
Indupalma was managed as a plantation since its creation in 1961. Labor conditions were grim, and labor unrest was at a peak when the general manager of Indupalma was kidnapped...
Coocafe, R.L.
Authors: Saklad, Hunter; Diener, Betty
Product Type: Cases
Source: The World Resources Institute
Publication Year: 1994
Coocafe, R.L. exported Cafe Foresta brand coffee from Costa Rica to Germany through "fair trade" channels. Cafe Foresta was positioned as "environmentally friendly," and purchasers automatically contributed to a special foundation that supported sustainable development and ecosystem preservation...
Starbucks and Conservation International
Authors: Austin, James E.; Reavis, Cate
Product Type: Cases
Source: HBS Premier Case Collection
Publication Year: 2002
Starbucks reviews the future of its alliance with Conservation International and its new coffee procurement guidelines aimed at promoting environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable coffee production.
In Ecuador, Resentment of an Oil Company Oozes
Authors: Romero, Simon; Ataya, Rabea
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2009
Mention to Anita Ruíz the name of the giant oil company Chevron, and she trembles with rage. At her wooden hut here in the Amazon forest, where oil-project flares illuminate the night sky, she points to a portrait of her youngest son, who died seven years ago of leukemia at age 16.
Fundacion Del Empresariado Chihuahuense (FECHAC)
Authors: Serrano, L; Hernandez, N; Romero, C
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
This case takes place in Chihuahua, one of Mexico's largest and most industrialized states, where local businessmen created an initiative to provide emergency relief for natural disasters...
Controlling Growth at a Mexican Microfinance Start-Up
Authors: Reddy, Rekha; Linowes, Richard
Product Type: Cases
Source: Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program
Publication Year: 2004
Esperanza was aware that fraud was extremely common in young microfinance organizations, especially those with imperfect operations and information systems, but her experience with the troubled branch left her shocked by how much damage could be done by a single employee in such a short period time.
Ancora
Authors: Chu, Michael; Koljatic, Mladen; Silva, Monica
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Project Ancora signals the entry of the private sector in primary health care for the poor in Chile. On a commercial basis, it seeks to deliver a more effective, efficient, and user-friendly primary health care model than the prevailing public health system...
Cementos Lima: Laying the Foundations of Social Responsibility (Supplement)
Authors: Portocarrero, F.; Sanborn, C.; Del Castillo, E.; Chavez, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
This case supplement describes the creation of an independent association by Cemenetos Lima to act as a partner organization to strengthen the social intiatives undertaken by the company.
Proyecto Paria Foundation: A Mission Addressed to Transforming the Environment
Authors: Celli, J; Pinango, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
In order to improve income in rural communities, towards the end of 2001, Proyecto Paria Foundation (FPP) completed a plan to reactivate the cocoa economy. After initial success, the foundation encounters resistance from the growers associations. The teaching purpose is to identify the ethical dilemmas of social intervention aimed at change in traditional societies and understand political, cultural, and social processes that generate conflicting situations between an organization that promotes change and that environment's local actors.
Colombia: Organizing for Competitiveness
Authors: Porter, Michael E.; Ramirez-Vallejo, Jorge
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
The case is designed to explore the process of building competitiveness, particularly in an unstable environment, with a focus on organizations for competitiveness.
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