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Inkaterra
Authors: Comin, Diego; Gopaldas, Rohan; Rehder, Diego
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The case presents the unique business model of Inkaterra, a leading eco-tourism organization in Peru, and the different strategies the company can pursue to grow. Through the experience of Inkaterra the case studies two general issues. First, it discusses the potential barriers that exist for the development of the tourism sector. Second, it presents the debate of whether governments may want to use tourism as an engine of growth, and if so, what is the best strategy to preserve the environment.
Urbanizing China
Authors: Iyer, Lakshmi; Donovan, G. A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
China's rapid urbanization, and the accompanying conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses, raised a number of economic, social, and political concerns. How would the challenges of urbanization affect the business environment for private firms? The success and viability of China's overall growth strategy depended crucially on managing a successful urban transition.
Intuit Inc.: Project AgriNova
Authors: Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Bijlani, Tanya
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
In late 2008, a team from Intuit's office in Bangalore, India is evaluating an opportunity to launch a new venture that would use SMS to deliver crop price information to farmers in India. The question is, what should they do next?
Wal-Mart in China 2012
Authors: Farhoomand, Ali F.; Garrett, Linda Holland
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2012
In this updated case on Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, the company remains actively committed to rolling out and refining its Every Day Low Price strategy across China, while making smaller, yet important strides to be locally relevant to its Chinese consumers...
Intel: Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Test Plant (A, B)
Authors: Alcacer, Juan; Herman, Kerry
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
In mid-2005, Intel is examining its options for where to locate its next assembly and test plant. On its short list of potential sites include locations in China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Each country has its own unique benefits and risks...
Designing a Culture of Collaboration at Lake Nona Medical City
Authors: Edmondson, Amy C.; Ribot, Sydney; Zuzul, Tiona
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Describes Lake Nona, a 7,000-acre residential and research cluster in central Florida, and its process and innovation culture, and Lake Nona Institute, the organization behind the planning and governance of this new eco-friendly community. When the Institute's president is asked to decide who the next tenant in Medical City should be, he considers what kind of process would allow them to best grow going forward...
Chairman Zhang and Broad Group: Growth Dilemmas
Authors: Marquis, Christopher; Dai, Nancy Hua; Yin, Lynn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Zhang Yue, founder and chairman of Broad Group, had developed a series of innovative products aimed at solving China's environmental problems. Would scaling the new businesses result in compromises to the mission and values that guided the company? If so, was the overall environmental impact from the new building technology worth the cost?
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?
Making Lemonade in Chicago's Troubled Neighborhoods
Authors: Retsinas, Nicolas P.; Lamas, Jazzmin; Strope, Lisa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This case focuses on the complexities of building a real estate portfolio in two low-income neighborhoods of Chicago, Roseland and Englewood, during the foreclosure crises in 2011.
Low-carbon, Indigenous Innovation in China
Author: Vietor, Richard H.K.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
For the past seven years or so, the Chinese government has been powering ahead with industrial policies to promote low-carbon energy technologies--wind, solar, electric batteries and vehicles, nuclear power, and even carbon capture and sequestration. The net effects of these initiatives leave low-carbon energy industries in the United States in the dust...
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