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- Aung Sein: An Entrepreneur in Myanmar
Aung Sein built a machine that produced inexpensive disposable gloves, an item in short supply in Myanmar. Medical and laboratory workers needed large quantities of disposable gloves, but the government would not buy Aung Sein's gloves. In 1995, the...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, International Business, Marketing, Small Business
- Cabriole
How do you know when a business is hopeless? How do you close it when hope is gone? Susan White's fitness wear firm, Cabriole, has lost $800,000 just in the past 5 years. Although customers have recognized the superior quality of Susan's designs and...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Policy, Small Business, Strategic Management
- Factory Direct Selling by Cironi's Sewing Center
This case analyzes the decision Toni Cironi must make over whether to conduct a factory-direct-to-consumer warehouse sale for Singer sewing machines. Cironi's prior experience with factory sales for Viking-White makes him wary of cannibalizing his h...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Policy, Small Business, Strategic Management
- Lakeland Mining Corp.
There is a very personal and dramatic confrontation between the chairman and the CEO of the board of directors. This circumstance will offer the students the opportunity to analyze corporate governance and the authority and accountability issues tha...
Disciplines: General Management, Small Business
- MBA Polymers, Inc.
In the early morning hours of October 26, 2000, MBA Polymers experienced a major setback after an explosion and fire killed one worker and sent plumes of toxic smoke into the air, forcing Richmond, California area schools to shut down, businesses to...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Policy, Small Business, Strategic Management
- National Financial Planners Association (A), The
NFPA was formed to promote the financial planning industry and exchange ideas and information among its members. NFPA decided to hire Program Management, Inc. (PMI), to manage the association. In 1990, NFPA hired Dan Crosby as executive director to ...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Small Business
- New World Computing, Inc.
The newly hired general manager of New World Computing joined the firm to exploit its proven software systems, marketing them to hospitals and medical schools. Instead, she finds that none of the products is quite market-ready, all of the customers ...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Policy, Small Business, Strategic Management
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