Thomas Edison said our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Had he given up the first...
Onajomo Akemu is the winner of the first prize in the social entrepreneurship track of the 12th annual oikos Case Writing Competition, he is also a PhD Candidate at the Rotterdam...
On June 21st, 2015, three oikos members traveled to New York City with a bag full of aspirations and enthousiasm. Anita Negri, Julia Weber (oikos Vienna, COMMIT Manager) and...
The oikos PRI Young Scholars Finance Academy in Reading, UK, May 31 to June 4, 2015 In the past decade, corporate fraud, bank scandals and financial crises have...
We just published the finalist cases of this year’s oikos Case Writing Competition! Whether you are a lecturer teaching courses in management, entrepreneurship or finance, or a student wanting...
The global population is predicted to reach almost 10 billion by 2050. How can all of these people be fed, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting biodiversity and developing...
Abstract The case study is about the dilemma faced by Dr. Jim Yong Kim (Kim), President of the World Bank Group, related to International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) funding...
Abstract The case revolves around “Sistema Ser” (SSer) (1), a private health care organization that serves the base of the pyramid (BOP) in northern Argentina, and its founder...
Abstract With no previous experience in the mobile phone industry, Bas van Abel, an industrial designer based in Amsterdam, started Fairphone as an NGO [non-governmental organisation] awareness campaign...
Abstract The case focuses on Roba Amiga, a network of organizations devoted to collect, select and sell second-hand clothes in Barcelona and its surrounding, with the aim of...