41 cases found.
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.
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Reference 6630
Published 10 Dec 2020
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.
As late as 2020, the supply chain of the global chocolate industry was characterized by modern slavery and child labour, poverty, dire living conditions and deforestation. While players in the cocoa industry had launched certification and in-house sustainability programmes, experts claimed that these have had limited impact.
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Reference 6616
Published 07 Jun 2021
Topic Responsibility
Region Global
As late as 2020, the supply chain of the global chocolate industry was characterized by modern slavery and child labour, poverty, dire living conditions and deforestation. While players in the cocoa industry had launched certification and in-house sustainability programmes, experts claimed that these have had limited impact.
Since its inception in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) has provided a blueprint for shared prosperity in a sustainable world — a world where all people live productive, vibrant, and peaceful lives on a healthy planet. With less than a decade to go, we need to ask if we are laying the right foundation to achieve the SDGs. How “SDG-smart” are we?
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Reference 6604
Published 27 May 2021
Topic Responsibility
Region Global
Industry Consumer Goods, Food and Beverages Production
Since its inception in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) has provided a blueprint for shared prosperity in a sustainable world — a world where all people live productive, vibrant, and peaceful lives on a healthy planet. With less than a decade to go, we need to ask if we are laying the right foundation to achieve the SDGs. How “SDG-smart” are we?
Jacqueline Novogratz quits a prestigious banking job to pursue a career in development but discovers that achieving real impact is harder than she had imagined, especially as grant-funded non-profits often lack the skills and accountability to be really effective.
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Reference 6551
Published 12 Nov 2019
Topic Responsibility
Region Global
Industry Financial Services
Jacqueline Novogratz quits a prestigious banking job to pursue a career in development but discovers that achieving real impact is harder than she had imagined, especially as grant-funded non-profits often lack the skills and accountability to be really effective.
Corporations are increasingly held responsible for the products they source and the sustainability of their supply chains. It was to meet this need that EcoVadis, a sustainability rating agency, was founded in 2007 by Pierre-François Thaler (INSEAD MBA, 1999) and Frédéric Trinel to bridge the information gap between corporate buyers and their suppliers.
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Reference 6535
Published 20 Jan 2020
Topic Responsibility
Region Global
Corporations are increasingly held responsible for the products they source and the sustainability of their supply chains. It was to meet this need that EcoVadis, a sustainability rating agency, was founded in 2007 by Pierre-François Thaler (INSEAD MBA, 1999) and Frédéric Trinel to bridge the information gap between corporate buyers and their suppliers.
This case focuses on the contribution of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), an American trade organization based on an industry-wide collaboration and a multi-stakeholder approach, to the fashion industry. The Higg Index is a self-assessment tool that aims to measure and reduce the environmental and social impacts of apparel supply chains.
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Reference 6437
Published 19 Dec 2018
Topic Responsibility
Region Global
Industry Textiles, Apparel and Fashion
This case focuses on the contribution of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), an American trade organization based on an industry-wide collaboration and a multi-stakeholder approach, to the fashion industry. The Higg Index is a self-assessment tool that aims to measure and reduce the environmental and social impacts of apparel supply chains.
Kiva is an online platform that sources crowdfunding for low-income borrowers. By 2018 it has facilitated $1.1 billion in loans to 2.5 million borrowers worldwide.
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Reference 6433
Published 24 Sep 2018
Topic Responsibility
Region Global
Industry Financial Services
Kiva is an online platform that sources crowdfunding for low-income borrowers. By 2018 it has facilitated $1.1 billion in loans to 2.5 million borrowers worldwide.
The case looks at the enormous disruption affecting the entire automotive industry through the eyes of a recently hired CRM expert at the British premium car maker Jaguar Land Rover who keeps the marketing team grounded by taking a customer-centric approach.
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Reference 6354
Published 26 Mar 2018
Topic Marketing
Region Global
Industry Automotive
The case looks at the enormous disruption affecting the entire automotive industry through the eyes of a recently hired CRM expert at the British premium car maker Jaguar Land Rover who keeps the marketing team grounded by taking a customer-centric approach.
The case is a detailed ‘inside’ account of the ‘dieselgate’ scandal at Volkswagen which revealed how engineers had programmed software that enabled its cars to cheat emissions tests.
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Reference 6346
Published 28 May 2018
Topic Responsibility
Region Global
Industry Automotive, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
The case is a detailed ‘inside’ account of the ‘dieselgate’ scandal at Volkswagen which revealed how engineers had programmed software that enabled its cars to cheat emissions tests.
The case describes General Electric’s transformation from an industrial manufacturer to an industrial analytics giant. It opens in 2009 when CEO Jeff Immelt decides that GE, a hardware maker, needs to be more capable in software. The narrative traces his early efforts to consolidate and coordinate software capabilities in a central unit (GE Software Center) headed by Bill Ruh in Silicon Valley.
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Reference 6313
Published 24 Jul 2017
Topic Strategy
Region Global
Industry Industrial Automation, Internet
The case describes General Electric’s transformation from an industrial manufacturer to an industrial analytics giant. It opens in 2009 when CEO Jeff Immelt decides that GE, a hardware maker, needs to be more capable in software. The narrative traces his early efforts to consolidate and coordinate software capabilities in a central unit (GE Software Center) headed by Bill Ruh in Silicon Valley.
This case describes the strategy of a renewable energy charity in Peru attempting to transition to a social enterprise. The charity uses a combination of strategies, including a multi-tiered pricing strategy and using local entrepreneurs to adapt the business model for local conditions.
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Reference 6231
Published 28 Oct 2016
Topic Strategy
Region Global
Industry Renewables & Environment
This case describes the strategy of a renewable energy charity in Peru attempting to transition to a social enterprise. The charity uses a combination of strategies, including a multi-tiered pricing strategy and using local entrepreneurs to adapt the business model for local conditions.
This case describes the strategy of a renewable energy charity in Peru attempting to transition to a social enterprise. The charity uses a combination of strategies, including a multi-tiered pricing strategy and using local entrepreneurs to adapt the business model for local conditions.
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Reference 6231
Published 28 Oct 2016
Topic Strategy
Region Global
Industry Renewables & Environment
This case describes the strategy of a renewable energy charity in Peru attempting to transition to a social enterprise. The charity uses a combination of strategies, including a multi-tiered pricing strategy and using local entrepreneurs to adapt the business model for local conditions.