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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.
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Reference 6460
Published 23 Jan 2019
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.
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Reference 6460
Published 22 May 2019
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.
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Reference 6460
Published 22 May 2019
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 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.
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Reference 5982
Published 28 Apr 2014
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.
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Reference 5905
Published 26 Nov 2012
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.
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Reference 5788
Published 31 Aug 2011
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.
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Reference 5788
Published 31 Aug 2011
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
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Reference 5197
Published 01 Jan 2004
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