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Kenya Tea Development Agency
Author: Chege, Gerald W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2005
One morning in March 2001, Mr. James K. Njoroge, the Managing Director of Kenya Tea Development Agency, sat in his office on the eighth floor of KTDA Plaza in Nairobi, the company's head office. He focused his mind on the scheduled board meeting to be held the following week. The meeting had only one agenda item to decide the approach that KTDA should take to solve its information management problems...
What Are Mergers Good For?
Author: Morgenson, Gretchen
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
To most investors, mergers are the stock market's equivalent of catnip. Takeover bids typically provide a nice boost to investors' portfolios and confirm their stock-picking smarts. And to hear the executives orchestrating them tell it, they always produce greater profits at the combined company down the road...And yet, for all the profit and promise that mergers seem to hold, the truth about companies combining their operations is a darker one. Academic research suggests that few mergers add up to significantly more prosperous or successful companies...
Corposol
Authors: Austin, James E.; Ogliastri, Enrique
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1998
Traces the evolution of Corposol, a nongovernmental organization dedicated primarily to lending to low-income microentrepreneurs. Its growth has made it the largest microenterprise lender in Colombia...
A Road Map for Natural Capitalism
Authors: Lovins, Amory B.; Lovins, L. Hunter; Hawken, Paul
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 1999
No one would run a business without accounting for its capital outlays. Yet most companies overlook one major capital component--the value of the earth's ecosystem services...
Foreign Direct Investment and Ireland's Tiger Economy (A, B)
Authors: Alfaro, Laura; McIntyre, Stephen; Dev, Vinati
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Describes Ireland's transformation from one of Europe's poorest countries to one of its richest in just 10 years, earning it the title Celtic Tiger. The spectacular story of growth and recovery is attributed, in large part, to foreign direct investment, particularly from the United Sates...
Journey to Sakhalin (A, B, C)
Author: Abdelal, Rawi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Operations of Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia included a strategic alliance with Gazprom, the country's natural gas monopoly, the development of the Salym oil fields in Siberia, and a small retail refilling network in St. Petersburg. This case focuses on the Sakhalin II project.
Magazine Luiza
Authors: Frei, Frances X.; Reisen de Pinho, Ricardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Describes the innovative retail model of the Brazilian firm Magazine Luiza. Magazine Luiza enables low-income consumer credit by applying a flexible and nuanced evaluation system...
Aligning Corporate Performance with Community Economic Development to Achieve Win-Win Impacts
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2001
J.P. Morgan Chase (formerly the Chase Manhattan Bank) has created an organizational structure to drive business and community development across the organization...
Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Programme in Rural Bangladesh
Authors: Richardson, Don; Ramirez, Ricardo; Haq, Moinul
Product Type: Cases
Source: TeleCommons Development Group
Publication Year: 2000
GrameenPhone is a commercial operation providing cellular services in both urban and rural areas of Bangladesh, with approximately 40,000 customers. A pilot programme of GrameenPhone, through the Grameen Bank and a wholly owned subsidiary called Grameen Telecom, is enabling women members of the Grameen Bank's revolving credit system to retail cellular phone services in rural areas...
Jack Stack (A, B)
Authors: Hanson, Kirk O.; Bollier, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Business Enterprise Trust
Publication Year: 1993
Describes Jack Stack's efforts to revive a diesel engine remanufacturing plant owned by International Harvester. Stack engineers a leveraged buyout of the factory by its managers. He then implements a radical system for managing the company, through which every employee is trained to read complete financial reports of the company and given weekly operating data...
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