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Case Solution for Damaí Lovina Villas: Can Eco-standards and Certification Create Competitive Advantage for a Luxury Resort?
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Case Name :      Damaí Lovina Villas: Can Eco-standards and Certification Create Competitive Advantage for a Luxury Resort?
Authors :           Nicole Darnall, Mark B. Milstein
Source :             North American Case Research Association (NACRA)
Case ID :            NA0300
Discipline :        Strategy
Case Length :    20 pages
Solution Sample availability : YES
Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)
Description for case is given below :
The general manager of Damaí Lovina Villas, a boutique hotel located in northern Bali, wants to strengthen the hotel’s competitive position by increasing utilization rates beyond the hotel’s 65% occupancy. The central question that the case poses is whether leveraging an organization’s sustainability activities, and participating in a voluntary environmental program (VEP) that promotes standardization and certification, is a reasonable vehicle to do so. This case considers what sustainability means in the context of a specific company, including issues related to value creation stemming from efficiency and productivity, reputation and legitimacy, innovation and repositioning, and strategic visioning opportunity framing. It presents an assessment framework (1) to evaluate a firm’s environmental and social activities, (2) to assess the sustainability activities of various VEPs, and (3) compare the two to determine whether and how a company’s sustainability programs align with the choices of VEPs under consideration. The framework creates a foundation to assess whether VEPs can offer strategic competitive advantage, and at what cost. The case is intended for an MBA or advanced undergraduate course to explore issues around strategic differentiation and standardization and strategy-environment fit, as well as courses dealing with topics related to sustainable enterprise, corporate social responsibility, international management, hospitality or hotel management, and eco-tourism.
 
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Case Solution for Balancing Stakeholder Interests and Corporate Values: A Cummins Strategic Decision.
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Case Name :      Balancing Stakeholder Interests and Corporate Values: A Cummins Strategic Decision.
Authors :           Erica Berte, Christine Vujovich
Source :             North American Case Research Association (NACRA)
Case ID :            NA0308
Discipline :        Strategy
Case Length :    16 pages
Solution Sample availability : YES
Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)
Description for case is given below :
In 1998, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US manufacturers of heavy-duty diesel engines signed a consent decree which included among other things, pulling forward (“pull ahead”) by 15 months a new nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission standard. By early 2002, Caterpillar and Detroit Diesel were requesting EPA to delay the “pull ahead”. Cummins was being pressured by its competitors to join in this request. On the other side, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and several environmental organizations wanted Cummins to adhere to the requirements of the consent decree. Cummins was navigating through a very difficult economic time and could not afford to make a mistake. Joe Loughrey, Cummins Engine Business President and his team needed to make a strategic decision. Would they a) agree with the competitors’ position asking EPA to delay the consent decree which required the company to pull ahead an expensive environment requirement, thus allowing manufacturers to continue using the established engine technology that had customer support, or b) accept the terms of the consent decree and continue to develop a new engine technology against the wishes of many in the industry and thus face possible market retraction. Both strategic decision options had substantial consequences and needed to be carefully evaluated. Not only was the future of Cummins Engine Business in jeopardy, but as we learn later, this decision impacted the future of the whole industry.
 
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Case Solution for Water Crisis in India
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Case Name :      Water Crisis in India
Authors :           Gary Clendenen, James F. Booker, Michael A. Card, Raj Devasagayam
Source :             North American Case Research Association (NACRA)
Case ID :            NA0323
Discipline :        Strategy
Case Length :    24 pages
Solution Sample availability : YES
Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)
Description for case is given below :
India had long suffered floods during the monsoons, droughts during the dry seasons, and periodic death causing famines during multi-year droughts. The old canal-based irrigation system developed by the British had crumbled from neglect and wealthier famers had turned to wells. Water shortages were compounded by the rapid population growth in India and water pollution. Dinesh Shindey had been asked by the prime minister to chair a task force to study the social, environmental, technical, and economic aspects of the proposed River Linking Project. It was a massive federal government project that required the construction of 34 new dams, 94 tunnels, and 12,500 kilometers of new canals. Proponents believed it would greatly increase the supply of water, but opponents believed it would never work as designed. Many simply believed that it was impossible to complete such a massive project in corruption plagued India. A former Secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources of India named S. Kannan believed that the solution to the water crisis in India lay instead in a decentralized approach based on conservation, the completion of numerous small, decentralized regional and local projects, and in managing the demand for water. After meeting with S. Kannan, Shindey’s task force would write their recommendations in a report that would become a basis for how India would respond. This case presents a complex multicriteria decision problem that requires students to examine the relevant political, economic, cultural, environmental, and legal aspects as related to a wide-ranging mix of stakeholders. Students can assign probabilities and do a decision tree analysis before looking at the situation through the rational, incremental, and garbage can models of decision making. The case illustrates both how carefully humans need to manage natural resources in the face of rapidly growing demand and also how incredibly complex it is to manage such resources in a democratic system.
 
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Case Solution for Fisdap: The Nursing Opportunity
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Case Name :      Fisdap: The Nursing Opportunity
Authors :           Derek Lehmberg
Source :             North American Case Research Association (NACRA)
Case ID :            NA0317
Discipline :        Strategy
Case Length :    21 pages
Solution Sample availability : YES
Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)
Description for case is given below :
In January 2013, Mike Johnson, CEO of Headwaters Software, was weighing the opportunity to diversify into a new but related market. Despite being a small company, Fisdap, as everyone called it, was the leading provider of software solutions and content to students and educators in the field of emergency medical services (EMS). Since its inception, Fisdap had played a key role in facilitating new ways to track and manage clinical internships of EMS students. Now, it appeared that educational programs for other healthcare occupations were likely to adopt methods similar to those now used in EMS. Johnson had recently returned from a visit to a community college using Fisdap’s EMS software, which had requested Fisdap to consider developing solutions for their nursing program as well. Nursing education was a large market, offering substantial growth potential for Fisdap. However, entering the market involved a number of risks, and meant that the company would move away from its existing strategy and direction. Johnson was concerned about whether the company could manage growth while maintaining its company culture and conservative approach to financing. Furthermore, the size of the nursing education market might entice larger competitors than Fisdap had encountered to date. Johnson felt that the nursing education software tools market might develop rapidly, so if he was going to enter, he had better do it now.
 
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Case Solution for LaborVoices: Bringing Transparency to the Global Supply Chain
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Case Name :      LaborVoices: Bringing Transparency to the Global Supply Chain
Authors :           Ronald M. Roman, Anne T. Lawrence, Chirag Amin
Source :             North American Case Research Association (NACRA)
Case ID :            NA0327
Discipline :        Social Enterprise
Case Length :    13 pages
Solution Sample availability : YES
Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)
Description for case is given below :
Social entrepreneur Kohl Gill founded LaborVoices in 2010 with the goal of using mobile phone technology to bring transparency to the global supply chain. Gill’s vision was to build a company that would allow workers in supplier factories for major brand companies-initially in Bangalore, India, and later in other locations-to use their mobile phones to report and share information about factory conditions. This information could potentially be useful to a variety of groups: the workers themselves, nongovernmental organizations and unions that sought to improve working conditions in the global supply chain, factory managers who wished to attract and retain high-quality workers, monitoring and auditing organizations that wished to improve their information sources, and international brand companies that sought to assure compliance with their codes of conduct and to protect against reputational risk. The case describes the experiences and thought processes that led to Gill’s business concept. It also provides information on labor conditions and supply chain dynamics in the textile and garment industry in southern India. At the end of the case, Gill is reviewing various business models and considering how to launch his social enterprise successfully.
 
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Case Solution for DePaul Industries in 2012: Financing Growth in a Social Venture
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Case Name :      DePaul Industries in 2012: Financing Growth in a Social Venture
Authors :           Silvia Dorado, Emmanuel ER Raufflet, Dave Shaffer
Source :             North American Case Research Association (NACRA)
Case ID :            NA0325
Discipline :        Social Enterprise
Case Length :    12 pages
Solution Sample availability : YES
Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)
Description for case is given below :
Established in 1971, DePaul Industries was a social venture operated as one organization (and for short called DePaul Industries) but legally registered as two 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organizations (DePaul Industries and DePaul Services). DePaul’s mission was to generate employment opportunities for people with disabilities. DePaul operated in three industries that shared three characteristics: they were employment intensive, had paper-thin margins, and were cash-thirsty. DePaul derived most of the funds to finance its operations from revenue from these businesses but had yet to turn a profit. In the past, banks had been willing to provide DePaul with financing (mortgages, credit lines, and factoring loans), but it had always been challenging and it appeared to be increasingly so. Dave Shaffer, DePaul’s CEO, had begun to explore other options, namely social investors, but with little success so far. Considering DePaul’s increasing difficulties to identify suitable financing, Shaffer had begun wondering whether these difficulties were, as in the past, rooted in financiers’ lack of understanding and sympathy towards DePaul’s social venture nature or whether there was something else-the eroding of DePaul’s net assets connected with recent business losses (largely derived from its contract packaging business).
 
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Case Solution for Communauto: A big idea for a big market
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Case Name :      Communauto: A big idea for a big market
Authors :           Raymond Paquin, Dror Etzion, James Povitz, Benjamin Gruber
Source :             North American Case Research Association (NACRA)
Case ID :            NA0315
Discipline :        Social Enterprise
Case Length :    15 pages
Solution Sample availability : YES
Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)
Description for case is given below :
This case examines Communauto, North America’s first carsharing organization, which is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The case focuses primarily on Communauto’s CEO, Benoit Robert, as he builds on his success and ponders how to make carsharing even more widespread and environmentally impactful. Unlike many sustainability oriented cases which focus on translating a ‘concept’ into a viable enterprise or offering, this case focuses on an organization that is already established, is financially sound, and is attaining its environmental objectives. Students examine how the founder can address the inevitable tension between growing the business and pursuing his ambitious goal of meaningfully reducing the environmental impact of personal transportation. It illustrates a for-profit model of social entrepreneurship in a North American context, providing a contrasting focal point to the multitude of cases that depict not-for-profit social entrepreneurship initiatives in less developed countries.
 
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Case Solution for Envirofit International: Cracking the BoP Market
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Case Name :      Envirofit International: Cracking the BoP Market
Authors :           Vijaya Narapareddy
Source :             North American Case Research Association (NACRA)
Case ID :            NA0306
Discipline :        Social Enterprise
Case Length :    14 pages
Solution Sample availability : YES
Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)
Description for case is given below :
The case presents a decision facing a tour guide organization in Tortuguero, Costa Rica regarding environmental sustainability and social equity. Tortuguero was situated on a spit of land, isolated from the rest of the country due to the ocean, rivers, and a protected national park. It was inaccessible by road. Tortuguero was home to the most prolific nesting beach for giant sea turtles in the Atlantic. Turtle-based tourism was the basis of the tiny village’s economy. Daryl Loth, President of the Tortuguero Tour Guide Association (TGA), had to oversee a meeting of the TGA, a self-organized group of local tour guides in the village. The TGA had collected a fee of about 40 US cents from each tourist taking a turtle tour and was going to choose one of three proposals for spending its $30K of revenues from the past two years. Community members were permitted to comment at TGA meetings, and some had argued that spending money on a road to Tortuguero would launch an increase in tourists; accessibility to health care, higher education, and lower priced goods and services; and hence, an increase in prosperity and their constitutional right to social equity. Some TGA members believed that an increase in tourists would lead to more business for them and the village businesses, plus greater awareness for the plight of the endangered green sea turtles. Others believed the lack of convenient access to the village was one reason they had been able to protect the turtles and attract new and repeat tourists. This case stimulates discussion of the following questions: What effects would the decision have on the community, the turtles, and the sustainability of ecotourism in Tortuguero in the short and longer term? Should environmental sustainability take precedence over social equity and ready access to medical care, university education, and lower prices for staple goods? What is the ethical choice?
 
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Case Solution for GreenWood Resources: A Global Sustainable Venture in the Making
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Case Name :      GreenWood Resources: A Global Sustainable Venture in the Making
Authors :           Lei Li, Howard Feldman, Alan Eisner
Source :             North American Case Research Association (NACRA)
Case ID :            NA0310
Discipline :        International Business
Case Length :    21 pages
Solution Sample availability : YES
Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)
Description for case is given below :
The case presents a decision facing a tour guide organization in Tortuguero, Costa Rica regarding environmental sustainability and social equity. Tortuguero was situated on a spit of land, isolated from the rest of the country due to the ocean, rivers, and a protected national park. It was inaccessible by road. Tortuguero was home to the most prolific nesting beach for giant sea turtles in the Atlantic. Turtle-based tourism was the basis of the tiny village’s economy. Daryl Loth, President of the Tortuguero Tour Guide Association (TGA), had to oversee a meeting of the TGA, a self-organized group of local tour guides in the village. The TGA had collected a fee of about 40 US cents from each tourist taking a turtle tour and was going to choose one of three proposals for spending its $30K of revenues from the past two years. Community members were permitted to comment at TGA meetings, and some had argued that spending money on a road to Tortuguero would launch an increase in tourists; accessibility to health care, higher education, and lower priced goods and services; and hence, an increase in prosperity and their constitutional right to social equity. Some TGA members believed that an increase in tourists would lead to more business for them and the village businesses, plus greater awareness for the plight of the endangered green sea turtles. Others believed the lack of convenient access to the village was one reason they had been able to protect the turtles and attract new and repeat tourists. This case stimulates discussion of the following questions: What effects would the decision have on the community, the turtles, and the sustainability of ecotourism in Tortuguero in the short and longer term? Should environmental sustainability take precedence over social equity and ready access to medical care, university education, and lower prices for staple goods? What is the ethical choice?
 
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Case Solution for The Road to Tortuguero
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Case Name :      The Road to Tortuguero
Authors :           Cheri A. Young, Terry G. Nicholas, David L. Corsun, Daryl Loth
Source :             North American Case Research Association (NACRA)
Case ID :            NA0313
Discipline :        General Management
Case Length :    20 pages
Solution Sample availability : YES
Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)
Description for case is given below :
The case presents a decision facing a tour guide organization in Tortuguero, Costa Rica regarding environmental sustainability and social equity. Tortuguero was situated on a spit of land, isolated from the rest of the country due to the ocean, rivers, and a protected national park. It was inaccessible by road. Tortuguero was home to the most prolific nesting beach for giant sea turtles in the Atlantic. Turtle-based tourism was the basis of the tiny village’s economy. Daryl Loth, President of the Tortuguero Tour Guide Association (TGA), had to oversee a meeting of the TGA, a self-organized group of local tour guides in the village. The TGA had collected a fee of about 40 US cents from each tourist taking a turtle tour and was going to choose one of three proposals for spending its $30K of revenues from the past two years. Community members were permitted to comment at TGA meetings, and some had argued that spending money on a road to Tortuguero would launch an increase in tourists; accessibility to health care, higher education, and lower priced goods and services; and hence, an increase in prosperity and their constitutional right to social equity. Some TGA members believed that an increase in tourists would lead to more business for them and the village businesses, plus greater awareness for the plight of the endangered green sea turtles. Others believed the lack of convenient access to the village was one reason they had been able to protect the turtles and attract new and repeat tourists. This case stimulates discussion of the following questions: What effects would the decision have on the community, the turtles, and the sustainability of ecotourism in Tortuguero in the short and longer term? Should environmental sustainability take precedence over social equity and ready access to medical care, university education, and lower prices for staple goods? What is the ethical choice?
 
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