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This case explores the difficulties involved in commercialising vaccines in low-income settings. The focus is the dengue vaccine, launched at the end of 2015, which was first commercialised in emerging markets. It considers issues of affordability and distribution, highlighting the need for business model innovation in all industries.
Reference 6165
Published 25 Jan 2016
Length 3 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
Industry Farming
This case explores the difficulties involved in commercialising vaccines in low-income settings. The focus is the dengue vaccine, launched at the end of 2015, which was first commercialised in emerging markets. It considers issues of affordability and distribution, highlighting the need for business model innovation in all industries.
This case explores the difficulties involved in commercialising vaccines in low-income settings. The focus is the dengue vaccine, launched at the end of 2015, which was first commercialised in emerging markets. It considers issues of affordability and distribution, highlighting the need for business model innovation in all industries.
Reference 6165
Published 25 Jan 2016
Length 4 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
Industry Farming
This case explores the difficulties involved in commercialising vaccines in low-income settings. The focus is the dengue vaccine, launched at the end of 2015, which was first commercialised in emerging markets. It considers issues of affordability and distribution, highlighting the need for business model innovation in all industries.
Duxton Asset Management, a specialist agro-business investor, is evaluating an investment in rice farming in Tanzania, Africa. Duxton has a business strategy of investing in operating farmland assets, many of which are in developing or even frontier markets. The case discusses the complexities of investing in an atypical multidimensional asset.
Reference 6007
Published 24 Mar 2014
Length 26 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
Industry Private Equity
Duxton Asset Management, a specialist agro-business investor, is evaluating an investment in rice farming in Tanzania, Africa. Duxton has a business strategy of investing in operating farmland assets, many of which are in developing or even frontier markets. The case discusses the complexities of investing in an atypical multidimensional asset.
The case traces the evolution of the private equity investment platform of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’). Unlike the typical traditional pension fund, Teachers’ has forged a bold, pioneering approach to investing by making a concerted push towards direct investing. The case discusses the trade-offs involved in developing a direct investing platform.
Reference 5993
Published 24 Jun 2013
Length 26 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
The case traces the evolution of the private equity investment platform of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’). Unlike the typical traditional pension fund, Teachers’ has forged a bold, pioneering approach to investing by making a concerted push towards direct investing. The case discusses the trade-offs involved in developing a direct investing platform.
!Xaus Lodge is a community owned tourism facility in the Kagaladi Transfrontier Park, built to settle post-apartheid claims related to land seizures. The revival of the facility by Transfrontier Parks Destinations, a for-profit firm that also seeks to create a positive social impact, is the focus of the case.
Reference 5936
Published 27 May 2013
Length 5 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
Industry Leisure, Travel and Tourism
!Xaus Lodge is a community owned tourism facility in the Kagaladi Transfrontier Park, built to settle post-apartheid claims related to land seizures. The revival of the facility by Transfrontier Parks Destinations, a for-profit firm that also seeks to create a positive social impact, is the focus of the case.
In this two-party negotiation, a large oil company accuses a social venture supplier of overcharging and threatens to take its business to lower cost for-profit competitors. The two parties need to rekindle their collaborative relationship and re-establish the commercial logic to continue working together.
Reference 5917
Published 29 Apr 2013
Length 7 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
In this two-party negotiation, a large oil company accuses a social venture supplier of overcharging and threatens to take its business to lower cost for-profit competitors. The two parties need to rekindle their collaborative relationship and re-establish the commercial logic to continue working together.
Case A describes the creation and growth of Nuru Energy. Starting from nothing, the founder 'bootstraps' a social venture with the goal of providing affordable and effective lighting solutions for 800 million people without access to the electricity grid in sub-Saharan Africa and India.
Reference 5847
Published 26 Feb 2013
Length 2 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
Industry Renewables & Environment
Case A describes the creation and growth of Nuru Energy. Starting from nothing, the founder 'bootstraps' a social venture with the goal of providing affordable and effective lighting solutions for 800 million people without access to the electricity grid in sub-Saharan Africa and India.
Cumberland Entertainment, a niche music producer, was looking for capital to finance its planned expansion. CEO, Tom Smith, entered into negotiations with private equity firms, and struck an agreement that turned out to be incomplete. As a result, serious problems arose between financial investors and management.
Reference 5242
Published 01 Dec 2004
Length 27 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
Cumberland Entertainment, a niche music producer, was looking for capital to finance its planned expansion. CEO, Tom Smith, entered into negotiations with private equity firms, and struck an agreement that turned out to be incomplete. As a result, serious problems arose between financial investors and management.
This is the second of a four-case series. Cumberland Entertainment, a niche music producer, was looking for capital to finance its planned expansion. CEO Tom Smith entered into negotiations with private equity firms, and struck an agreement that turned out to be incomplete. As a result, serious problems arose between financial investors and management.
Reference 5242
Published 01 Dec 2004
Length 5 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
This is the second of a four-case series. Cumberland Entertainment, a niche music producer, was looking for capital to finance its planned expansion. CEO Tom Smith entered into negotiations with private equity firms, and struck an agreement that turned out to be incomplete. As a result, serious problems arose between financial investors and management.
Cumberland Entertainment, a niche music producer, was looking for capital to finance its planned expansion. CEO, Tom Smith, entered into negotiations with private equity firms, and struck an agreement that turned out to be incomplete. As a result, serious problems arose between financial investors and management.
Reference 5242
Published 01 Dec 2004
Length 1 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
Cumberland Entertainment, a niche music producer, was looking for capital to finance its planned expansion. CEO, Tom Smith, entered into negotiations with private equity firms, and struck an agreement that turned out to be incomplete. As a result, serious problems arose between financial investors and management.
Cumberland Entertainment, a niche music producer, was looking for capital to finance its planned expansion. CEO, Tom Smith, entered into negotiations with private equity firms, and struck an agreement that turned out to be incomplete. As a result, serious problems arose between financial investors and management.
Reference 5242
Published 12 Jan 2004
Length 5 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
Cumberland Entertainment, a niche music producer, was looking for capital to finance its planned expansion. CEO, Tom Smith, entered into negotiations with private equity firms, and struck an agreement that turned out to be incomplete. As a result, serious problems arose between financial investors and management.
In Fall 2003, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man and the CEO of Yukos, the second-largest Russian oil producer with a market capitalization of US$26 billion, was arrested and thrown into jail on charges of fraud. Several days later he resigned as CEO of Yukos.
Reference 5176
Published 07 Jan 2005
Length 20 page(s)
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Other Regions
In Fall 2003, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man and the CEO of Yukos, the second-largest Russian oil producer with a market capitalization of US$26 billion, was arrested and thrown into jail on charges of fraud. Several days later he resigned as CEO of Yukos.