The Novartis Malaria Initiative was developed as a result of an agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2001 to provide a revolutionary “not-for-profit” treatment for malaria in public health systems. What began as an exemplary act of corporate responsibility has exceeded all expectations. In 2012, Novartis manufactured and sold more than 100 million …
In 2018, majority ownership of Wilderness Safaris, Africa’s leading high-end ecotourism company with safari operations in eight countries, The Rise Fund, one of the world’s largest private impact investment funds, and FS Investors, a private holding company. This is a follow-up to Wilderness Safaris: Ecotourism Entrepreneurship (HBS # 9318040), which focuses on the origins, growth …
InterfaceRAISE is a sustainability management consultancy founded to leverage the skills of its parent company Interface Inc., a carpet manufacturer recognized as a world leader in corporate environmental sustainability. This case illustrates the challenges of turning an in-house skill into a customer-centric revenue stream. This is made difficult by the fact that the parent company …
Ethos Spirit of the Community (Ethos), a sustainable tourism company in Sa Pa, Vietnam, existed to support a variety of environmental and social initiatives that benefited members of local ethnic minorities. In early 2019, the organization’s founders worked with 22 tour guides and 260 ethnic minority host families to offer sustainable and socially responsible treks …
Shrujan, a 50-year-old social enterprise, was founded to provide work for villagers after a severe drought in the Kutch region of India. The organization focused on harnessing the villagers’ remarkable skills in embroidery to create and market high-quality embroidery. The products provided their homes with additional income and contributed to the preservation of the traditional …
This case describes how the new CEO changed the organization’s strategy and its implementation.
In this case, EPA’s bubble policy is taken into account, which allows contamination to be treated at the entire plant level, rather than pile by pile. A pollution control is added to a linear programming model that can be used to plan production and pollution control.
Researchers at Merck & Co. believe that a drug they developed for animals could be an effective treatment for human river blindness, a debilitating disease that affects hundreds of thousands of poor people in the developing world. However, the development and testing process will be enormously expensive. Should the company dedicate critical resources to drug …
The case describes OpenIDEO, an online arm of IDEO, one of the world’s leading product design companies. OpenIDEO uses IDEO’s innovative design process and an online community to develop solutions to social problems. The focus is on comparing IDEO and OpenlDEO processes using real project examples. For IDEO, this includes the redesign of Air New …
In July 2009, Vale NL began construction of a $ 2.17 billion nickel refinery in Long Harbor, Newfoundland and Labrador. The refinery would bring economic prosperity by creating 1,600 to 2,000 jobs during construction and 400 to 500 permanent jobs in an area with high unemployment. The project’s environmental assessment process began in 2006 and …