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• Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | June 2019 (Revised April 2020)

  Vox Capital: Pioneering Impact Investing in Brazil

  Julie Battilana, Marissa Kimsey and Falko Paetzold

  Vox Capital was the first certified impact investing fund in Brazil. Founded in 2009, it provides early-stage capital for companies offering innovative and scalable solutions to enhance the lives of low-income Brazilians, while aiming to simultaneously generate attractive market-rate financial returns for investors. This case examines the evolution of Vox Capital, across understanding the landscape, launching, raising funds, selecting investees, structuring deals, building investee capacities, tracking performance, developing internal systems, and advancing the field of impact investing.

  Keywords: impact investing; social performance measurement; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise; Brazil;

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  Battilana, Julie, Marissa Kimsey, and Falko Paetzold. "Vox Capital: Pioneering Impact Investing in Brazil." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 419-087, June 2019. (Revised April 2020.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | March 2020

  Nadine Vogel: Transforming the Marketplace, Workplace, and Workforce for People with Disabilities

  Lakshmi Ramarajan, Hannah Riley-Bowles and Michael Norris

  In 2019, Nadine Vogel, founder and CEO of Springboard Consulting, a firm that worked with Fortune 500 companies on issues related to disability and their workforce, faced the decision of the best path forward to grow her small company. Should she built more and better expertise to expand the topics she worked on with her current clientele? Or should she explore the possibility of moving into the new market of smaller businesses?

  Keywords: Diversity; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions; United States; Florida; New York (state, US);

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  Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Hannah Riley-Bowles, and Michael Norris. "Nadine Vogel: Transforming the Marketplace, Workplace, and Workforce for People with Disabilities." Harvard Business School Case 420-062, March 2020.  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | February 2020

  Leading Change in Talent at L'Oréal

  Lakshmi Ramarajan, Vincent Marie Dessain and Emer Moloney

  Jean-Claude Le Grand had dedicated almost his entire career to following talent at L'Oréal. He strongly believed that L'Oréal's workforce needed to be diverse in order to ensure creativity and innovation. In early 2018—as he was about to take up the position of EVP for Human Relations and a place on the Executive Committee—L'Oréal still struggled to diversify its senior leadership team, which was often male, French, elite-educated and made up of executives who had spent their entire careers at the company. At the same time, in an increasingly competitive market for talent, and given digitalization and new ways of working Le Grand was preoccupied that L'Oréal would no longer be able to attract vibrant young talent.

  Keywords: Advertising; Business Headquarters; Business Divisions; Business Organization; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Diversity; Gender; Nationality; Multinational Firms and Management; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Management; Jobs and Positions; Employment; Human Capital; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Networks; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Business Strategy; Advertising Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; France; Paris;

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  Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Vincent Marie Dessain, and Emer Moloney. "Leading Change in Talent at L'Oréal." Harvard Business School Case 420-106, February 2020.  View Details

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