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ExtraCarbon: Working for a Cleaner Future
Rakesh Gupta; Lubna Nafees; Saumyajit GuhaCase IVEY-9B20M044-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyExtraCarbon was a company focused on the sorting stage of India’s unorganized waste management industry. The company was founded in 2013 with owners’ capital and some investments from friends and family. In October 2018, one of these friend investors expressed a desire to exit the venture. Although ExtraCarbon had made steady progress since its founding, the company did not have enough money to buy out the investor’s stake, and the company’s valu...Starting at €8.20
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Pharmeasy: Expansion Dilemma Amidst Regulatory Uncertainties
Rakesh Gupta; Lubna NafeesCase IVEY-9B20M090-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe two co-founders of PharmEasy, an online medical store and pharmacy website launched in 2015, faced a new challenge in December 2018. Recent judgments by the Madras and Delhi High Courts had suspended the operations of India’s more than 250 online pharStarting at €8.20
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TerraPower
Sahlman, William A.; Nanda, Ramana; Lassiter, Joseph B.; McQuade, JamesCase HBS-813108-EEntrepreneurshipJohn Gilleland, CEO of TerraPower, returned to his office after a lengthy meeting with potential investors. It was October 2012, and TerraPower was in the process of raising a $200M Series C round to finance the ongoing development of its next-generation nuclear reactor. Though early in the fundraising process, Gilleland noted that this most recent conversation was similar to conversations with other interested cleantech growth equity investors. ...Starting at €8.20
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Carbon Engineering
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Misra, SidCase HBS-814040-EEntrepreneurshipDr. David Keith, President of Carbon Engineering, a company based in Calgary, Alberta, is commercializing a technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The company plans to market the captured CO2 to produce low carbon transportation fuels in markets such as California where regulation, derived from a state law designed to manage climate change, restricts the maximum carbon intensity of transportation fuel.Starting at €8.20
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Husk Power: Scaling the Venture
Roth, Benjamin N.; Lassiter, Joseph B.; Rigol, NataliaCase HBS-819069-EEntrepreneurshipIn January 2018, Husk Power had just raised $20 million to scale operations for a second time. From 2007 through 2013, Husk built 80 biomass waste (primarily rice husk from rice mills) plants that provided electricity to 250,000 villagers and shop owners spread across 350 villages in India and Africa.
By 2015, Husk underwent a major pivot. Rather than a rural electrification vision aimed at providing power to rural households through biomass...Starting at €8.20
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Apollo Tyres India: Sustaining an Organic Growth
Lubna Nafees; Akshay Kumar; Kaushik DattaCase IVEY-9B15M070-EStrategyThe chairman of one of India’s leading tire manufacturers must devise a strategy to maintain his company’s significant position in the tire industry. To date, the company has generated most of its revenues from sales in India, and it has become a leading player in the Indian commercial vehicle segment. With an overall slowdown in the manufacturing sector, the commercial vehicle segment has been hard-hit. The passenger car segment, however, is exp...Starting at €8.20
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Taco Bell: A Mexican-Inspired Restaurant in India
Lubna Nafees; Akshay Kumar; Ashok Bajpai; Anoop Chand; Maryne Ann James; Bonney Luke Thomas; Jayakrishnan B. Nair; Kunal Hazari; Garima KondaCase IVEY-9B14A058-EMarketing, StrategyWith four outlets of Taco Bell opened in Bangalore, India by December 2013, the managing director of Yum! Restaurants India, the parent company, felt eager to expand. The company took pride in providing the best Mexican-inspired fast food at a low price iStarting at €8.20
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Husk Power
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Misra, SidCase HBS-815023-EEntrepreneurshipIn late 2013, Husk Power Systems found itself falling further and further behind plan. The founding CEO had decided to resign. His co-founder is faced with the decision of quitting his corporate job in the US to head to India and help form a new management team. Husk is an Indian startup founded in 2007 with the goal of global rural electrification. The company has decided to pivot from operating biomass gasification plants towards developing sol...Starting at €8.20
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Global Metal Company: The Challenges of Scaling Up in the Unorganized Sector
Lubna Nafees; Rakesh GuptaCase IVEY-9B19M025-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe chief executive officer and founder of Global Metal Company (GMC), had been in the business of antique reproduction hardware for more than three years, having quit his successful corporate career to start GMC in his hometown of Aligarh in northern India. After seeing the initial response to the business, he was confident that within three years, GMC would realize the annual revenue of US$1 million he had envisioned. In 2018–2019, upon complet...Starting at €8.20
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FREEJ
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Alkhatib, FirasCase HBS-808121-EEntrepreneurshipMohammed Harib placed his phone on the desk in front of him. As he sat back in his chair and looked out the window, he began to take stock of how his life had taken such a dramatic path over the last few years. Life was good for the founder and CEO of Lammtara Pictures, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) first 3D animation studio. Recently dubbed 'Dubai's answer to Pixar' in a recent magazine article, Lammtara's first animated television show, FREEJ,...Starting at €8.20