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Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals: The Next Steps for Growth
Sandeep Goyal; Amit KapoorCase IVEY-9B16M197-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn January 2016, the chief executive officer of Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals (AGH) was reflecting on the 12-year journey that had led to the establishment of AGH as the strongest pillar of holistic healthcare in Eastern India. AGH brought together the best infrastructure, equipment, people, and systems to serve the people of Eastern India with end-to-end tertiary healthcare. The institution grew with a continuous drive for expanding knowledge, int...Starting at €8.20
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Diversey in India: The Growth Challenges and Options
Sandeep Goyal; Amit KapoorCase IVEY-9B13M115-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyDiversey, a leading global brand in the business-to-business cleaning industry, had entered the Indian market positioned as a total cleaning solution provider to institutional customers. It differentiated itself from the competition with its end-to-end solutions, superior products and service levels, research and development capabilities and value-based pricing. While it had some success in India, it felt that there was a huge untapped opportunit...Starting at €8.20
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VisionSpring in India: Enabling Affordable Eyeglasses for the Poor
Sandeep Goyal; Amit KapoorCase IVEY-9B14M144-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyVisionSpring enabled access to affordable eye care for low-income individuals suffering from vision impairment in developing economies. Established in the United States as a not-for-profit social enterprise, it sold more than two million pairs of eyeglasses globally, which included over one million pairs of eyeglasses sold in India. Despite achieving this scale, VisionSpring believed there was a long way to go considering the estimated 300 millio...Starting at €8.20
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Boond: Enabling Access to Energy Solutions for Rural India
Sandeep Goyal; Amit Kapoor; Rajen GuptaCase IVEY-9B14M048-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyMore than one-third of India remained without electricity or received less than eight hours of electricity per day. To fight energy poverty, Boond was in the business of providing lighting solutions to the low-income population in rural India. By 2013, it had created a network of four hubs (energy centres) and impacted the lives of more than 50,000 people across two states in India through its solar energy systems. It had forged non-traditional p...Starting at €8.20
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JSW Steel: Shared Value at Vijayanagar Steel Plant
Sandeep Goyal; Amit Kapoor; Wilfried AulburCase IVEY-9B17M065-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyBy 2015, JSW Steel Limited had established itself as one of India’s leading steel producers. Since 2002, it had increased its capacity from 1.6 million tons per annum (MTPA) to 18.0 MTPA at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18 per cent; increased production from 1.30 MTPA to 12.36 MTPA at a CAGR of 19 per cent; and increased market capitalization by 59 times, from US$79.26 million to US$4.676 billion. The company’s innovative shared-value a...Starting at €8.20
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redBus: The Next Step for Growth
Sandeep Goyal; Amit Kapoor; M.P. JaiswalCase IVEY-9B13M048-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyredBus has enjoyed tremendous success in the structurally unattractive, fragmented, and non-transparent market for private bus travel bookings by introducing a technology platform to bridge the supply-demand gap in real-time. This technology platform connects the bus operators, travel agents, and bus travelers in a seamless and transparent manner. redBus is considered an industry transformation change agent that has altered the dynamics of the bu...Starting at €8.20
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Student Success at Georgia State University (A)
Toffel, Michael W.; Mendelson, Robin; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-621006-EService and Operations ManagementGeorgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/Starting at €8.20
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Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
Toffel, Michael W.; Mendelson, Robin; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-621039-EService and Operations ManagementThis is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub's chatbot solution as a strategyStarting at €5.74
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The Powers That Be (Internet Edition): Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft
Rayport, Jeffrey; Kelley, Julia; Schwalb, NathanielCase HBS-818111-EEntrepreneurshipAs of early 2018, five U.S. technology companies-Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft-were among the largest companies in the world. Similarly, three Chinese technology firms-Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, or BAT-had emerged as global players due in part to the protection of China's "Great Firewall," which made it more difficult for foreign companies to compete in Chinese markets. As these companies continued to scale by branching into ne...Starting at €8.20