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Market Mechanisms for Newborn Health in Nepal
By: Karsten Lunze, Rosie Dawkins, Abeezer Tapia, Sidharth Anand, Michael Chu and David E. Bloom
Lunze, Karsten, Rosie Dawkins, Abeezer Tapia, Sidharth Anand, Michael Chu, and David E. Bloom. "Market Mechanisms for Newborn Health in Nepal." BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 17 (December 2017).
- February 2017 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
BIM: Finding New Ways to Grow
By: Michael Chu and Gamze Yucaoglu
BIM, Turkey’s giant retailer with a hard-discount model for the popular segments, must decide whether to launch a brand-new format challenging the modern supermarkets. Since its founding in 1995, BIM has adhered to a business model based on a relentless focus on costs...
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Keywords:
Turkey;
Decision;
Emerging Markets;
Private Sector;
For-Profit Firms;
Business Model;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Value Creation;
Change Management;
Decisions;
Growth Management;
Retail Industry;
Turkey
Chu, Michael, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "BIM: Finding New Ways to Grow." Harvard Business School Case 317-097, February 2017. (Revised March 2018.)
- March 2016 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
CunCunLe: Empowering China's Rural Villages
By: Michael Chu, John S. Ji and Nancy Hua Dai
Chu, Michael, John S. Ji, and Nancy Hua Dai. "CunCunLe: Empowering China's Rural Villages." Harvard Business School Case 316-152, March 2016. (Revised January 2017.)
- March 2016 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online
By: Michael Chu, John S. Ji and Nancy Hua Dai
The world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender annually disbursing over a million loans totaling $10 billion, China’s CreditEase, must decide whether to IPO in the NYSE its online lending platform, Yirendai, before the year-end window closes in 2015. Yirendai sought to...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Internet and the Web;
Financing and Loans;
Credit;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Chu, Michael, John S. Ji, and Nancy Hua Dai. "CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online." Harvard Business School Case 316-151, March 2016. (Revised August 2016.)
- February 2016 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
Sorridents: Making Dental Care Accessible to All in Brazil
By: Michael Chu and Priscilla Zogbi
Chu, Michael, and Priscilla Zogbi. "Sorridents: Making Dental Care Accessible to All in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 316-149, February 2016. (Revised January 2018.)
- February 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
IMAX: Scaling Personalized Learning in India
By: John Jong-Hyun Kim, Michael Chu and Rachna Tahilyani
IMAX is a provider of comprehensive testing and personalized content across mid-range and low-cost private K-10 schools in India. It aims to improve learning outcomes by providing schools with an integrated product suite including textbooks, workbooks, assessments,...
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Keywords:
Curriculum and Courses;
Learning;
Acquisition;
Business Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Education Industry;
India
Kim, John Jong-Hyun, Michael Chu, and Rachna Tahilyani. "IMAX: Scaling Personalized Learning in India." Harvard Business School Case 316-108, February 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
- August 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Roshan: Beyond Pioneering Success in Afghanistan
By: Michael Chu and Namrata Arora
Chu, Michael, and Namrata Arora. "Roshan: Beyond Pioneering Success in Afghanistan." Harvard Business School Case 316-030, August 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- March 2015
- Case
Pearson Affordable Learning Fund
By: Michael Chu, Vincent Dessain and Kristina Maslauskaite
An in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF sought to invest in business models providing superior educational outcomes in emerging markets on a...
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Keywords:
Impact Investment;
Low Cost Private Schools;
Investment Fund;
Business At The Base Of The Pyramid;
Transition;
Investment;
Development Economics;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Emerging Markets;
Private Sector;
Education;
Education Industry;
Asia;
Africa
Chu, Michael, Vincent Dessain, and Kristina Maslauskaite. "Pearson Affordable Learning Fund." Harvard Business School Case 315-109, March 2015.
- February 2015 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
Edyficar and Mibanco: The Emergence of M&A in Microfinance
By: Michael Chu
Mibanco, a microfinance icon, is for sale, and Edyficar, owned by Banco del Credito (BCP), Peru's largest bank, is evaluating its acquisition. Until recently, such a transaction would have been fanciful given Mibanco's preeminent role in Peruvian microfinance, which...
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Keywords:
Base Of The Pyramid;
Peru;
Latin America;
Microfinance;
Commercial Banking;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Banking Industry;
Latin America;
Peru
Chu, Michael. "Edyficar and Mibanco: The Emergence of M&A in Microfinance." Harvard Business School Case 315-030, February 2015. (Revised April 2017.)
- April 2014
- Case
Ancora: A Primary Healthcare Model for Chilean Public Health?
By: Michael Chu, Thomas Bossert, Mladen Koljatic and Monica Silva
Chu, Michael, Thomas Bossert, Mladen Koljatic, and Monica Silva. "Ancora: A Primary Healthcare Model for Chilean Public Health?" Harvard Business School Case 314-121, April 2014.
- April 2014 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Aspada: In Search of the Right Structure for Impact Investing
By: Michael Chu and Rachna Tahilyani
Chu, Michael, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Aspada: In Search of the Right Structure for Impact Investing." Harvard Business School Case 314-099, April 2014. (Revised July 2014.)
- March 2014 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
The Novartis Malaria Initiative
By: Michael Chu, Vincent Marie Dessain and Emilie Billaud
The Novartis Malaria Initiative was designed, as a result of a precedent–setting agreement with the World Health Organization in 2001, to provide a breakthrough treatment for malaria—"at no profit"—for public health systems. What had begun as an exemplary act of...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Product Marketing;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Enterprise;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Switzerland;
Africa;
Nigeria
Chu, Michael, Vincent Marie Dessain, and Emilie Billaud. "The Novartis Malaria Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 314-103, March 2014. (Revised November 2020.)
- January 2014
- Supplement
Día Día Practimercados: Meeting the Daily Needs at the Base of the Pyramid (B)
By: Michael Chu, Regina Garcia-Cuellar and Rosa Amelia Gonzalez
Chu, Michael, Regina Garcia-Cuellar, and Rosa Amelia Gonzalez. "Día Día Practimercados: Meeting the Daily Needs at the Base of the Pyramid (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-085, January 2014.
- October 2013
- Case
Morella Mendoza de Grossmann Foundation & the Joslin Vision Network—Venezuela
By: Michael Chu, Maria Helena Jaen and Mercedes Briceno
Chu, Michael, Maria Helena Jaen, and Mercedes Briceno. "Morella Mendoza de Grossmann Foundation & the Joslin Vision Network—Venezuela." Harvard Business School Case 314-035, October 2013.
- July 2013
- Case
Embrace
By: Michael Chu, David E. Bloom and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Chu, Michael, David E. Bloom, and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Embrace." Harvard Business School Case 814-001, July 2013.
- April 2013
- Article
Setting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics
By: Michael Chu, David E. Bloom and Elizabeth Cafiero
Health decision makers throughout the world are faced with a multiplicity of challenges. As resource limitations are a fundamental fact of life, choices necessarily have to be made about which challenges to address, and the best way to tackle them. In this piece, we...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Decision Making;
Health Care and Treatment;
Problems and Challenges;
Health Industry
Chu, Michael, David E. Bloom, and Elizabeth Cafiero. "Setting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics." Impact, the Magazine of PSI, no. 12 (April 2013).
- January 2013
- Case
Omidyar Network: Pioneering Impact Investment
By: Michael Chu and Lauren Barley
Omidyar Network, having deployed to date over $500 million in ways ranging from donations to commercial equity capital, must decide whether to back Anudip, an Indian organization dedicated to providing the rural unemployed and marginalized with livelihoods linked to...
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
India
Chu, Michael, and Lauren Barley. "Omidyar Network: Pioneering Impact Investment." Harvard Business School Case 313-090, January 2013.
- August 2012 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
Día Día Practimercados: Meeting the Daily Needs at the Base of the Pyramid (A)
By: Michael Chu, Regina Garcia-Cuellar and Rosa Amelia Gonzalez
Chu, Michael, Regina Garcia-Cuellar, and Rosa Amelia Gonzalez. "Día Día Practimercados: Meeting the Daily Needs at the Base of the Pyramid (A)." Harvard Business School Case 313-071, August 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
- Article
Private Enterprise for Public Health
By: Michael Chu and David E. Bloom
By many measures, the world today is a healthier place than ever before, yet a daunting set of deficits and disparities remains to be tackled. For various reasons, it is not clear that the traditional tandem of government and civil society are up to those challenges....
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Keywords:
Private Ownership;
Social Enterprise;
Public Sector;
Private Sector;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Chu, Michael, and David E. Bloom. "Private Enterprise for Public Health." Global Investor (Credit Suisse) (February 2012), 14–16.
- 2011
- Chapter
El Sector Privado y las Responsabilidades Públicas: El Rol de las Soluciones Comerciales en la Temática Social
By: Michael Chu
In today's world, certain goods and services are considered so basic that, regardless of culture, they are accepted as public responsibilities. However, for the low-income populations in developing countries, which constitute the majority of the world, access to these...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Management Practices and Processes;
Human Needs;
Poverty;
Commercialization
Chu, Michael. "El Sector Privado y las Responsabilidades Públicas: El Rol de las Soluciones Comerciales en la Temática Social." Chap. 1 in Negocios inclusivos y empleo en la base de la piramide. Estudios Internacionales. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2011, Spanish ed.