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After completing a post-graduate degree in International Affars, Aline Sara founded NaTakallam - a social enterprise relying on digital technology to connect refugees and displaced people with language learners looking for online classes in Arabic, Persian, French and Spanish.
Reference 6630
Published 10 Dec 2020
Length 12 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Global
Industry Education Management
After completing a post-graduate degree in International Affars, Aline Sara founded NaTakallam - a social enterprise relying on digital technology to connect refugees and displaced people with language learners looking for online classes in Arabic, Persian, French and Spanish.
En Classe is an educational foundation operating in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the poorest countries in the world, where nearly 61 million people live on less than $1.90 a day. Twelve million children do not attend school and only a quarter of those who do ultimately complete secondary education.
Reference 6495
Published 02 Feb 2021
Length 17 page(s)
Topic Strategy
Region Africa
Industry Education Management, Non-Profit Organization Management
En Classe is an educational foundation operating in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the poorest countries in the world, where nearly 61 million people live on less than $1.90 a day. Twelve million children do not attend school and only a quarter of those who do ultimately complete secondary education.
The Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), the Private University of Bolivia, was founded in 1993. Not long after, in the late 1990s, civil unrest erupted with coca growers battling police in the streets outside the campus. Students and faculty fled, the prior President retired, and the University was functionally insolvent.
Reference 6460
Published 23 Jan 2019
Length 10 page(s)
Topic Strategy
Region South America
Industry Education Management
The Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), the Private University of Bolivia, was founded in 1993. Not long after, in the late 1990s, civil unrest erupted with coca growers battling police in the streets outside the campus. Students and faculty fled, the prior President retired, and the University was functionally insolvent.
The Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), the Private University of Bolivia, was founded in 1993. Not long after, in the late 1990s, civil unrest erupted with coca growers battling police in the streets outside the campus. Students and faculty fled, the prior President retired, and the University was functionally insolvent.
Reference 6460
Published 22 May 2019
Length 11 page(s)
Topic Strategy
Region South America
Industry Education Management
The Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), the Private University of Bolivia, was founded in 1993. Not long after, in the late 1990s, civil unrest erupted with coca growers battling police in the streets outside the campus. Students and faculty fled, the prior President retired, and the University was functionally insolvent.
The Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), the Private University of Bolivia, was founded in 1993. Not long after, in the late 1990s, civil unrest erupted with coca growers battling police in the streets outside the campus. Students and faculty fled, the prior President retired, and the University was functionally insolvent.
Reference 6460
Published 22 May 2019
Length 11 page(s)
Topic Strategy
Region South America
Industry Education Management
The Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), the Private University of Bolivia, was founded in 1993. Not long after, in the late 1990s, civil unrest erupted with coca growers battling police in the streets outside the campus. Students and faculty fled, the prior President retired, and the University was functionally insolvent.
In the eight years since doing his MBA, John Wood has had a stellar career with Microsoft, where he is considered a rising star. But John feels a sense of purpose is missing from his corporate career.
Reference 6298
Published 21 Apr 2017
Length 1 page(s)
Topic Responsibility
Region Asia
Industry Education Management, Higher Education, Non-Profit Organization Management
In the eight years since doing his MBA, John Wood has had a stellar career with Microsoft, where he is considered a rising star. But John feels a sense of purpose is missing from his corporate career.
The case follows the story of Brazilian business leader, Ricardo Semler, who took the family marine-pump business, Semco, to multi-national, multi-sector success. To do so, Ricardo Semler dramatically changed his own leadership style by relinquishing control and working less hard, and subsequently transformed the culture at Semco via a radical process of workplace democratisation.
Reference 5982
Published 28 Apr 2014
Length 12 page(s)
Region South America
Industry Education Management, Leisure, Travel and Tourism, Banking
The case follows the story of Brazilian business leader, Ricardo Semler, who took the family marine-pump business, Semco, to multi-national, multi-sector success. To do so, Ricardo Semler dramatically changed his own leadership style by relinquishing control and working less hard, and subsequently transformed the culture at Semco via a radical process of workplace democratisation.
The case follows the story of Brazilian business leader, Ricardo Semler, who took the family marine-pump business, Semco, to multi-national, multi-sector success. To do so, Ricardo Semler dramatically changed his own leadership style by relinquishing control and working less hard, and subsequently transformed the culture at Semco via a radical process of workplace democratisation.
Reference 5982
Published 26 May 2023
Length 11 page(s)
Region South America
Industry Education Management, Leisure, Travel and Tourism, Banking
The case follows the story of Brazilian business leader, Ricardo Semler, who took the family marine-pump business, Semco, to multi-national, multi-sector success. To do so, Ricardo Semler dramatically changed his own leadership style by relinquishing control and working less hard, and subsequently transformed the culture at Semco via a radical process of workplace democratisation.
In 2009, a Macquarie consortium won the tender to build six Irish schools under a public-private partnership programme. The work was financed mainly with debt, with only €50,000 of straight equity injected into the project. Payments from the Irish government were the sole source of revenue. However, the advent of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe put the government's ability to pay in doubt.
Reference 5905
Published 26 Nov 2012
Length 21 page(s)
Topic Economics & Finance
Region Europe
Industry Education Management
In 2009, a Macquarie consortium won the tender to build six Irish schools under a public-private partnership programme. The work was financed mainly with debt, with only €50,000 of straight equity injected into the project. Payments from the Irish government were the sole source of revenue. However, the advent of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe put the government's ability to pay in doubt.
Case A describes how a couple who lost a child create a social venture - the Max Foundation - by applying sound business principles to maximize the impact per-euro-spent. Case B discusses the growth challenges facing the organisation today.
Reference 5788
Published 31 Aug 2011
Length 20 page(s)
Topic Responsibility
Region Asia
Industry Education Management
Case A describes how a couple who lost a child create a social venture - the Max Foundation - by applying sound business principles to maximize the impact per-euro-spent. Case B discusses the growth challenges facing the organisation today.
Case A describes how a couple who lost a child create a social venture - the Max Foundation - by applying sound business principles to maximize the impact per-euro-spent. Case B discusses the growth challenges facing the organisation today.
Reference 5788
Published 31 Aug 2011
Length 3 page(s)
Topic Responsibility
Region Asia
Industry Education Management
Case A describes how a couple who lost a child create a social venture - the Max Foundation - by applying sound business principles to maximize the impact per-euro-spent. Case B discusses the growth challenges facing the organisation today.
Case Writers: Anne-Maire DE JONGHE and Eline VAN POECK
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) represents the case of a green-field university (a new start-up from scratch), a distance e-based university, located in Barcelona (Spain), which was able to use the specific regional context of higher education policy in Catalunya to embark on a rather unique strategy and establish a unique organizatio
Reference 5197
Published 01 Jan 2004
Length 19 page(s)
Topic Strategy
Region Europe
Industry Education Management, Higher Education
Case Writers: Anne-Maire DE JONGHE and Eline VAN POECK
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) represents the case of a green-field university (a new start-up from scratch), a distance e-based university, located in Barcelona (Spain), which was able to use the specific regional context of higher education policy in Catalunya to embark on a rather unique strategy and establish a unique organizatio