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Stockbay Partners: Proactive Flexible Work and Talent Retention
Riya Vinayak; Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-9B16C031-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAn entrepreneur faced a dilemma regarding the flexible work policy in his start-up consulting firm. The leader of the firm struggled with the complications that arose after the implementation of flexible working arrangements, and the various situations caused him to rethink the concept of trying to help his employees to manage their own work–life balance. Since flexible working hours were granted on a role-by-role basis, a perception of unfairnes...Starting at €8.20
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The Indian Greenpreneur: Management of Frenemy Talent and Coopetition
Jyotsna Bhatnagar; Neha Paliwal Sharma; Nakul GuptaCase IVEY-9B13C028-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyDuring the 2013 Indian festival of colours, a young green entrepreneur and owner of Green Horizon Consulting (GHC) faced a plethora of business growth challenges. His former employee, who had quit GHC a while back to work for a major rival, wanted to return. However, the entrepreneur could not figure it out — would rehiring an ex-employee be a sound business decision? Should he take a risk and give the former employee another chance? If he did, h...Starting at €8.20
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Cyberpreneur's Wake-up Call: Cyber Security and Millennial Talent Crises
Nakul Gupta; Arjun Bhatnagar; Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-9B13E029-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIt was summer of 2013, and the news of cyber-attacks and information security breaches was on the rise in India, as it was worldwide. Incidents such as the Axis bank’s cyber-crime incident and the news of the American National Security Agency’s global e-surveillance were creating consternation and dilemmas in the minds of information security consultants. One such consultant owned and operated an information security company, Percept Softech, a L...Starting at €8.20
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Coinmen Consultants LLP: Adopting a Technology-Based Learning Culture
Pranati Aggarwal; Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-9B17C008-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementIn 2016, the three co-founders of Coinmen Consultants LLP (Coinmen), an independent business advisory and chartered accountancy firm in New Delhi, faced a dilemma with respect to the knowledge management process at their firm. Due to the firm’s rapid growth, a change was certainly necessary, but the partners held some reservations about adopting a technological process for knowledge-sharing in their company. Would the implementation of a knowledg...Starting at €8.20
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Yes Bank: AI or Human Connection for Talent Management?
Anuradha Mukherji; Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-W25367-ELeadership and People ManagementThe program head for retail talent acquisition at Yes Bank Limited needed to improve the talent acquisition process to fill vacant positions for relationship managers—a critical position within the business unit. Competition for talent was severe, with muStarting at €8.20
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Sahyadri Farms: Growing in the Agritech Field
Preeti Jain; Jyotsna Bhatnagar; Narain GuptaCase IVEY-W28518-EService and Operations Management, StrategyThe farmer producer company (FPC) Sahyadri Farmer Producer Company Ltd. (Sahyadri Farms) commenced with a mission of safeguarding fair compensation to the small landholding farmers of India in exchange for their produce and hard labour. Sahyadri Farms was a market leader in grape exports, especially to Europe, but when export freight charges shot up dramatically due to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the company was forced to enter i...Starting at €8.20
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Advaith Group: Sidelined Impressions and Managing Talent Maps
Sumal Abraham Varghese; Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-9B20C034-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementIn 2017, Advaith Group was an Indian conglomerate with interests in various businesses including chemicals, infrastructure, and engineering. An advisor to the corporate communications group was employed on a contractual basis. Each year at the time of hisStarting at €8.20
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iGATE Corporation: Toxic Talent and Organizational Resilience
Nidhi S. Bisht; Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-9B17C002-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn May 2013, iGATE Corporation suffered a major blow after terminating its president and chief executive officer, Phaneesh Murthy, as a result of allegations of sexual harassment. Murthy had previously been forced to step down from Infosys Limited for similar reasons. After Murthy’s unceremonious exit, iGATE struggled to fill its top leadership position. Finally, in September 2013, a new chief executive took over and outlined a plan of action tha...Starting at €8.20
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Fluorescent Group: Blue Ocean Shift
Vishnu Chandar Venkatesh; Veeresh Sharma; Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-9B18M176-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyFluorescent Group (Fluorescent) was an Indian company specializing in manufacturing filament products that were used in incandescent light bulbs. It had been a market leader for over 30 years, and by 2017, it had seven group companies and over 400 employeStarting at €8.20
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Personifwy by Wishyogi: Not Afraid of Ghost Talent
Jyotsna BhatnagarCase IVEY-W27518-EDecision Analysis, Leadership and People ManagementIn 2020, Neha Mathur and Debi Kar co-founded the start-up Wishyogi India Pvt. Limited in Bangalore, India, and launched an online HR platform called Personifwy. Driven by artificial intelligence (AI), Personifwy analyzes employee engagement experiences and integrates data with the client’s own systems, thus serving as an HR analytics platform. During their interactions with clients, Mathur and Kar discovered a gap in the process of recruiting pro...Starting at €8.20