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CARE Kenya: Making Social Enterprise Sustainable
Authors: Ewart, Tom; Bansal, Pratima
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
CARE's Rural Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Promotion project is a new, market-driven approach to development in Kenya. While the project has been successful from a development standpoint, it is not commercially viable...
Safaricom Limited
Author: Mayaka, Charles
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2005
Joseph and his team had only just begun to get settled in Nairobi, and it now appeared that the race for mobile telephone customers had begun sooner than he had anticipated. It was time to get out of the starting blocks. But how?
Mabati Rolling Mills Ltd
Authors: K'Aol, George O.; Gatumo, Francis; Low, Murray
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2005
It was early 1999 when the management team of Mabati Rolling Mills Ltd (MRM), led by their CEO Mr. Kaushik Shah, submitted a proposal to the Board of Directors. The proposal identified specific technology upgrading and growth strategies based on process and product innovations that would make MRM the sole manufacturer of superior Aluminum-Zinc coated sheets and coils in Africa...
Commercial Bank of Africa
Authors: Chege, Gerald W.; Anzaya, Mbithe; Mullins, John; Low, Murray
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) was a medium-sized bank, incorporated in Kenya. The bank served the Kenyan corporate sector as well as international institutions and organizations with offices in Kenya. In late 2003 Mr. Isaac Awuondo, the Managing Director of CBA, was facing an information technology management dilemma...
Firestone East Africa (1969) Limited (Now Sameer Africa Limited)
Author: Lewa, Peter M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
Mr. Naushad Noorali Merali, chairman of Firestone East Africa (1969) Limited, had never been known to shy away from any business challenge. He firmly believed that nothing was impossible once a person put his or her mind to solve it. He looked at any business challenge as an opportunity to learn from, whether the outcome was a success or a failure. In January, 1993 the government of Kenya announced that it had put in place a framework for the full liberalization of the economy...
Kenya Tea Development Agency
Author: Chege, Gerald W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2005
One morning in March 2001, Mr. James K. Njoroge, the Managing Director of Kenya Tea Development Agency, sat in his office on the eighth floor of KTDA Plaza in Nairobi, the company's head office. He focused his mind on the scheduled board meeting to be held the following week. The meeting had only one agenda item to decide the approach that KTDA should take to solve its information management problems...
Honey Care Africa: A Tripartite Model for Sustainable Beekeeping
Authors: Branzei, Oana; Valente, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
The director and co-founder of Honey Care Africa (Honey Care) looks back over the six years of operations and describes the original business model. Increasing international recognition highlights the potential impact of the model on inspiring sustainable grassroots ventures in the agriculture sector in Kenya.
Vegpro Group: Growing in Harmony
Authors: Shelman, Mary L.; Milder, Brian; Bell, David E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This case illustrates inherent conflicts between social causes.
Kenya Airways (A)
Author: Munene, Catherine
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
In February 2003, Mr. Titus Naikuni was hired as Managing Director and CEO of the Kenya Airways Group. After attending the first few weekly business meetings as the Group's Managing Director and CEO, he realized he needed to develop a new direction for the company...
Kaskazi Network Ltd: Distributing to the Bottom of the Pyramid (A, B, C)
Authors: Sjoblom, L; Karugu, W.; Schuepbach, L.
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2008
This three part case series deals with the distribution of FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) to low income areas (slums) in Kenya.
Bidco Looks to the African Markets for Growth
Author: Mayaka, Charles
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
It was business as usual at the factory yard in March 2003, but not for Mr. Vimal Shah, the CEO of Bidco Oil Refineries in Thika, Kenya. Standing at the window of his expansive first floor office, Vimal hardly noticed the frenzied activities taking place down below, where truckload after truckload of products left for different destinations in Kenya. His mind was busy going over the two proposals sitting on his desk...
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A, B)
Authors: Ebrahim, Alnoor; Rangan, V. Kasturi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's investment committee and its chief investment officer, Brian Trelstad, must decide whether or not to fund two for-profit ventures.
Financial Services for the Unbanked: Vodafone
Author: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2008
Following a successful pilot program in Kenya, Vodafone is rolling out a service that allows customers to access cash via their mobile phones. Called M-PESA, the service allows customers to borrow, transfer and make payments using a mobile phone, transforming financial services by making transactions cheaper, faster and more secure...
Small loans to women make big changes
Author: Davidson, Clare
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: BBC News
Publication Year: 2007
"There was no hardware store," explains Mary Ellen Iskenderian, who first visited Ms Wafukho after becoming head of the non-profit organisation Women's World Banking in September 2006...
How Safaricom Gives Voice to Africa
Author: Jopson, Barney
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Financial Times
Publication Year: 2007
Globalization and the Environment in a Reformed UN: Charting a Sustainable Development Path
Author: Lamy, Pascal
Product Type: Speeches
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2007
WTO Director-General, Pascal Lamy, in an address to the UNEP Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi, warned that a failure of the Doha negotiations “would strengthen the hand of all those who argue that economic growth should proceed unchecked” without regard for the environment. He stressed that “trade, and indeed the WTO, must be made to deliver sustainable development...”
Helping Small-Scale Pyrethrum Farmers In Kenya
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Product Type: Cases
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2004
SC Johnson formed a partnership to help Kenyan farmers improve their livelihoods by efficiently farming pyrethrum, a unique daisy that is the source for a naturally occurring insecticide.
Diageo and East African Breweries Ltd.: Tapping New Markets for Social Good
Authors: Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Bird, Matthew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
For the second time in six months, the Kenyan Finance Ministry had raised excise taxes on alcoholic beverages in an effort to plug the country's budget deficit; the bill was awaiting the President's signature...
KenCall - Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya?
Author: Isenberg, Daniel J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
Nik Nesbitt is preparing a presentation of his Kenyan contact center startup to a group of angel investors visiting for the first time.
Micro-franchise Against Malaria
Author: Flannery, Jessica
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2007
The HealthStore Foundation combines microfinance with established franchising practices to address the simple problem of “getting the drugs to sick people when and where they are needed,” says founder and CEO Scott Hillstrom.
Corporate Citizenship and Sustainable Community Development: Fostering Multi-Sector Collaboration in Magadi Division in Kenya
Author: Muthuri, Judy N.
Product Type: Cases
Source: International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, UK
Publication Year: 2007
This paper explores Magadi Soda Company’s efforts to initiate a multi-sector collaboration to facilitate sustainable community development in Magadi division in Kenya.
HealthStore's Franchise Approach to Healthcare
Authors: Fertig, Michelle; Tzaras, Herc
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States Agency for International Development
Publication Year: 2005
The HealthStore micro-franchise model gives local entrepreneurs the opportunity to own and operate sustainable, profitable businesses while simultaneously curtailing incentives for corruption, as franchisees risk losing their business if they fail to comply with franchise regulations.
One Acre Fund: Outgrowing the Board
Authors: Sherman, Eliot; Donnelly, Anne Cohn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2011
A young international nonprofit social enterprise governed by friends of the founder grows rapidly and faces increasing demands...
Jamii Bora and Kaputei Town: Affordable and Sustainable Housing for Urban Slumdwellers
Author: Christensen, Lisa Jones
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2009
In late 1999, Ingrid Munro founded a microloan organization in Nairobi, Kenya with 50 women who had previously been desperate street beggars. The organization, “Jamii Bora” (which means “good families” in Kiswahili), is based on the premise that very poor people can lift themselves from poverty through saving and business development.
Pumping Prosperity
Author: Russel, Ron
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation
Publication Year: 2004
ApproTEC’s pumps are designed and marketed with an understanding of the culture and psychology of African farmers.
How to Establish and Manage a Social Business at the Bottom of the Pyramid: The Case of OSRAM in Africa
Author: von Nell, Pia Sophie
Product Type: Cases
Source: WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
Publication Year: 2011
Since September 2008 OSRAM runs a social business following the triple bottom line, which means that it has to be socially, environmentally and financially sustainable. The project, which provides light to regions that do not have power supply systems, was initiated at the Lake Victoria in Kenya. Using the latest technology and a totally new business model OSRAM is able to satisfy the needs of the poor, people who live at the bottom of the pyramid.
Value Chain Development: Care Kenya's Challenge to Make Markets Work for the Poor (A, B)
Author: McKague, Kevin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
These two cases examine how CARE, a non-profit international development organization, pursues a market-based approach to meeting its poverty-reduction mission in Kenya.
Vodafone M-PESA (A): Turning a Corporate Social Responsibility Innovation into a Mainstream Business Opportunity
Authors: Sadoulet, Loïc; Furdelle, Olivier
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2011
Vodafone, a world leader in mobile telecommunications, in partnership with Safaricom, the leading Kenyan mobile operator, launches a service that allows registered users to transfer money from their mobile phones to other mobile phone users.
Mobius Motors: Building an African Car
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Mobius Motors manufactures and sells low-cost cars in the Kenyan market. However, Mobius's fleet of vehicle is still currently very small, and the company faces many strategic challenges on both the demand and the supply side of the business.
EcoPost: Financing a Green Startup in Africa
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, EcoPost manufactures construction posts out of the thousands of tons of plastic waste produced daily by the city. However, they face many obstacles overcoming skepticism from investors, largely because of their relatively poor financial record keeping...
Competing by Saving Lives: How Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies Create Shared Value in Global Health
Authors: Peterson, Kyle; Kim, Samuel; Rehrig, Matthew; Stamp, Mike
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: FSG
Publication Year: 2012
This report highlights how pharmaceutical and medical device companies are creating shared value in global health by enhancing their competitiveness while simultaneously addressing the global burden of disease...
How Manu Chandaria Mastered the African Market
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Interviews
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2013
In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton conducted by Ivorian entrepreneur and author Eric Kacou, Kenyan business tycoon Manu Chandaria reveals some of his secrets to business success in Africa. Chandaria discusses how other businesses and entrepreneurs can follow his lead and pursue socially responsible practices that benefit the communities in which they work.
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