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Kaufmann, Lauren
Annapurna Finance: Just in Time
Harris, Jared D.; Kaufmann, Lauren; Chinnaswamy, Trent
S-0476 | Published November 05, 2025 | 10 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores Annapurna Finance Pvt. Ltd. (AFPL) and its collaboration with Accion International and Mastercard through the Mastercard-Accion Partnership (MAP) to advance digital financial inclus... Read More
Grameen America: Advancing Financial Inclusion Through Innovation
Harris, Jared D.; Kaufmann, Lauren; Chinnaswamy, Trent
S-0475 | Published August 22, 2025 | 12 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2008, Grameen America (GA) launched in Queens, New York, with the mission of extending Muhammad Yunus’s Nobel Prize–winning microfinance model to low-income women entrepreneurs in the United States... Read More
Approaches and Resources Supporting Impact Measurement and Management
Kaufmann, Lauren; Chinnaswamy, Trent
E-0523 | Published July 29, 2025 | 17 Pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note introduces students and practitioners to the frameworks, methodologies, and tools that support effective impact measurement and management (IMM) within social enterprises and impac... Read More
Impact Theory of Change
Kaufmann, Lauren; Shaloudegi, Koushyar
E-0522 | Published July 25, 2025 | 7 Pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
Organizations often have an idea of how to make a positive social or environmental impact and want to understand the likelihood that launching new programs or interventions will succeed. Managers want... Read More
Mastercard Academy 2.0: Striving for More
Harris, Jared D.; Kaufmann, Lauren; Chinnaswamy, Trent
S-0474 | Published July 25, 2025 | 12 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In April 2025, Nur Hasan, social impact manager at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, was working to reach Mastercard Strive Indonesia’s target of supporting 300,000 micro and small enterpris... Read More
Teleios: Profit and Purpose in the Hospice Industry
Kaufmann, Lauren; Maiden, Stephen E.
E-0519 | Published July 16, 2025 | 21 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores the strategic and ethical dilemmas faced by Chris Comeaux, CEO and founder of the nonprofit Teleios Collaborative Network (TCN), as he seeks to scale a mission-driven organization i... Read More
Nestlé and Infant Formula: Revisiting a Dilemma
Kaufmann, Lauren; Botha, Helet; Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, Jenny; Warner, Anna
E-0524 | Published June 12, 2025 | 14 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case, the protagonist, one of the top marketing managers at Nestlé S.A. (Nestlé) responsible for marketing the company’s infant formula globally, must work with the marketing team to address c... Read More
Ethical Considerations of Marketing
Hagerty, Serena; Kaufmann, Lauren; Shaloudegi, Koushyar; Klopfenstein, Amy
M-1066 | Published June 12, 2025 | 11 Pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note explores ethical considerations that modern marketers must evaluate as they develop their strategies. It provides an overview of common ethical pitfalls within the major marketing ... Read More
Gender Lens Investing: Impact Investing for the Benefit of Women
Kaufmann, Lauren; Kemp, Bianca
E-0517 | Published February 21, 2025 | 10 Pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
Impact investing is an investment strategy that aims to generate attractive financial returns while achieving positive social and/or environmental impact. In 2007—with the aim to “rally private invest... Read More
BioBag Australia: Evaluating Green Growth Capital Opportunities
Kaufmann, Lauren; Dodd, Tracey; Maiden, Stephen E.
E-0510 | Published October 24, 2024 | 11 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In June 2018, Scott Morton, managing director of BioBag World Australia Pty Ltd (BioBag Australia), had a decision to make. The Chinese government had recently implemented harsher restrictions on the ... Read More
Madam Director: Fern Investment Solutions Pursues Board Gender Diversity
Kaufmann, Lauren; Dodd, Tracey; Kemp, Bianca
E-0507 | Published June 18, 2024 | 16 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On November 19, 2021, Beatrice O'Sullivan, co-head of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and equities analyst at Fern Investment Solutions (Fern) in Canberra, Australia, dialed into the Hanco... Read More
Returning to Redmond? Exploring Equity in Hybrid Work Environments at Microsoft
Kaufmann, Lauren; Mead, Jenny; King, Lucy
E-0497 | Published December 20, 2023 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This public-sourced case is based on a series of decisions Microsoft and other US-based technology companies made between 2021 and 2022 related to hybrid and return-to-office work policies coming out ... Read More
Equity Considerations in Remote and Hybrid Work Environments
Kaufmann, Lauren; Mead, Jenny; King, Lucy
E-0498 | Published December 20, 2023 | 3 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, companies around the world built and refined models of working in both fully remote and hybrid environments. While many of these policies and pr... Read More
Netflix and Dave Chappelle (A)
Kaufmann, Lauren; Botha, Helet; Mead, Jenny
E-0499 | Published October 12, 2023 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave Chappelle. In the special—the last of six that Cha... Read More
Intersectionality
E-0500 | Published October 12, 2023 | 5 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note gives an overview of intersectionality, which is a theory, originally from legal scholarship, that explains how multiple forms of social inequality interact to produce individuals' experienc... Read More
Netflix and Dave Chappelle (B)
Kaufmann, Lauren; Botha, Helet; Mead, Jenny
E-0501 | Published October 12, 2023 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a special by comedian Dave Chappelle. In the special—the last of six that Chappelle ... Read More