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Under the leadership of Chairperson Catherine Brown and CEO Ulanbek Termechikov, Kompanion grew from a small company to a market leader in the Kyrgyz MFI sector with over 120,000 clients. As it grew, Kompanion continued to adhere to the humanitarian philosophy of its parent company, Mercy Corps, an NGO focused on economic aid and disaster relief.
- Topics on: Impact
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In September 2012, Nikhil Jaisinghani poured over Mera Gao Power’s (MGP) records in his small office on the third floor of one of Sitapur district’s tallest buildings.
- Topics on: Impact
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Honey Care guided farmers through the entire honey supply chain – producing and selling modern hives to farmers, managing the hives from installation to harvest to ensure quality, and purchasing honey from the farmers.
- Topics on: Impact
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This case investigates LaCroix sparkling water and its connection to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as a study of chemical compounds in carbonated beverages has captured the public’s attention.
- Topics on: Strategy
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This case focuses on Ferrero SpA’s sustainable palm oil sourcing strategy in light of its acquisition of Nestlé’s U.S. confectionery brands, which in many ways does not comply with Ferrero’s sustainable sourcing commitments.
- Topics on: Strategy
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Stripe, a San Francisco-based financial and software as a service (SaaS) company, is launching a platform to encourage its clients to invest in carbon removal technologies.
- Topics on: Strategy
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This case analyzes the University of Michigan (U-M) Endowment Fund’s capability and potential responsibility to divest from fossil fuels. Similar educational institutions, such as the University of California system, had cut fossil fuels from their portfolios, posing the question of whether U-M President Mark Schlissel would be able to do the same amid the university’s stakeholder pressures.
- Topics on: Strategy
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In 2017, Amazon began its search for a second headquarters location. From 20 finalists, after a bidding process that lasted nearly a year, Amazon selected two locations: Long Island City in the borough of Queens, New York City; and Arlington, Virginia.
- Topics on: Reporting and Measurement, Strategy
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Seventh Generation, a sustainable cleaning and personal care products company, has received a purchase offer from Unilever. Seventh Generation’s CEO is deciding whether to accept the offer and, if so, under what terms.
- Topics on: Reporting and Measurement, Statistics
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Rick Anderson, senior director of NextEra’s Green Marketing Group, is crafting a marketing strategy to move Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) on the voluntary market by demonstrating the added value of the company’s…
- Topics on: Reporting and Measurement, Strategy
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In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company.
- Topics on: Analytics, Impact, Reporting and Measurement, Strategy, Technology
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In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled paper as an input.
- Topics on: Impact, Strategy
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In 2016, Swedish entrepreneurs Carl-Erik Lagercrantz and Peter Carlsson founded an electric battery company called Northvolt with the dual goals of creating a company to address climate change and bringing battery manufacture to Europe.
- Topics on: Impact, Strategy
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The case describes BMW’s electrification and decarbonization strategy, and how the company measured carbon emissions throughout the life cycle of its vehicles and used tools like carbon abatement cost curves to evaluate decarbonization opportunities.
- Topics on: Impact, Strategy
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The Miami metropolitan area is a global epicenter of climate risk from heat and sea level rise, but leaders have only recently mobilized for action to respond to this systemic challenge.
- Topics on: Strategy
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Megan Murday, the founder of Metric, an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) analytics startup, must decide which customer segment to target as a beachhead market. She received positive feedback from a Swiss venture capital (VC) firm, indicating their immediate interest in using Metric’s software.
- Topics on: Impact, Strategy
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In July 2016, Di Yang and Grace Guo of the leading Chinese private equity group CPE faced a dilemma—a happy dilemma, but a challenge nonetheless.
- Topics on: Investing, Statistics, Strategy, Technology
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In 2020, Ndidi Nwuneli, founder and CEO of Sahel Consulting in Nigeria, faced a thorny set of problems.
- Topics on: Strategy, Technology
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On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science.
- Topics on: Strategy, Technology
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Elie Girard has taken the helm as CEO of Atos—multinational IT giant—to lead the company into the next era of digital transformation.
- Topics on: Statistics, Strategy, Technology