07 Mar 2024
Social Capital Ventures: Water for life in the Cambodian countryside - Anne-Valerie OHLSSON-CORBOZ and Philip C. ZERRILLO (2014)
Text commentary - 2 pages - Business strategy
Social Capital Ventures Development (SCVD) equips Cambodian rural and farming communes with water-filtering devices. Co-founders Christopher Wilson and Khov Boun Chhay are trying to figure out how a large number of Cambodians seem to be unable to get out of the poverty trap. SCVD pinpoints health...
12 Oct 2023
With $100 Million Gift, Steve Ross Honors the Past, Looks to the Future - Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (2004) - Negotiating with the Dean
Text commentary - 2 pages - Business strategy
It was Steve Ross who first came up with a number: ""I really want to help you so I figure fifty minimum," Ross said." This is not the best strategy because the price can be discussed and not to his favour. He later says that $50 million is rather common in similar cases. He thought the Dean was...
