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Mannarkkad Rural Service Co-operative Bank: Innovating at the Edge
Nidheesh Joseph; Abhishek Totawar; Ranjeet NambudiriCase IVEY-9B20C009-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyIn November 2016, the secretary of Mannarkkad Rural Service Co-operative Bank Ltd. (MCB) based in Kerala, India, learned that the prime minister of India had announced that large-denomination currency notes would be invalid as of midnight November 8. This demonetization move was to eradicate unaccounted for “black money” from the nation. Co-operative banks like MCB were excluded from the purview of India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India,...Starting at €8.20
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Becton Dickinson: Global Health Strategy
Kramer, Mark R.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-718406-EStrategyBecton, Dickinson and Company (BD) was a medical technology firm headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, with 43,000 employees and 2016 revenues of $12.5 billion. For several years, the company had pursued development of products that created shared value, defined as those that both generated profits and created positive social impact. One of the primary ways the company advanced such products was through establishing and maintaining public-...Starting at €8.20
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Nestle's Creating Shared Value Strategy, Teaching Note
Kramer, Mark R.Teaching Note HBS-719460-EStrategyTeaching note for case 716422.Starting at €0.00
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Apigee: People Management Practices and the Challenge of Growth
Ranjeet Nambudiri; S. Ramnarayan; Catherine XavierCase IVEY-9B17C022-ELeadership and People ManagementIn late 2015, Apigee, a fast-growing technology firm, faced competitive pressures. It needed to scale up rapidly, which included hiring additional staff. At the regional office in India, some members of the senior leadership team wondered whether the company would need to modify its human resources practices. The firm had been operating in a unique organizational culture that encouraged employees’ openness and freedom, in keeping with its core va...Starting at €8.20
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Performance Management at the National Institute of Management (Central India Campus) (A)
Ranjeet Nambudiri; K.R. JayasimhaCase IVEY-9B08C020-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe case describes existing performance management systems at a leading business school in India, the National Institute of Management - Central India campus (NIM CI campus). The institution, which is ranked among the top 20 business schools in India, is facing critical issues of attracting and retaining faculty members. The director of the NIM CI campus has implemented a unit based performance measurement and incentive system, which has worked f...Starting at €8.20
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Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar, Teaching Note
Kramer, Mark R.; Porter, Michael E.Teaching Note HBS-719426-EStrategyTeaching note for case 715411.Starting at €0.00
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Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar
Porter, Michael E.; Kramer, Mark R.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-715411-EStrategyLate in 2013, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez was considering how and whether to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India, while expanding access to medicine and health information to millions of Indian villagers.Starting at €8.20
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The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility (Spanish version)
Porter, Michael E.; Kramer, Mark R.Article HBS-R0612DStrategyHow should executives think about corporate social responsibility? and Why is it that the billions of dollars invested in social sector institutions haven't begun to solve our basic problems? Both articles have smart, original things to say about how business leaders can make a real difference. A company that aligns its strategy with its CSR to invest in disruptive social sector innovations might change the world.Starting at €8.20
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Performance Management at the National Institute of Management (Central India Campus) (B)
Ranjeet Nambudiri; K.R. JayasimhaCase IVEY-9B09C009-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe case describes existing performance management systems at a leading business school in India, the National Institute of Management (Central India campus) (NIM (CI campus)). The institution, which ranked among the top 20 business schools in India, is facing critical issues of attracting and retaining faculty members. The director of NIM (CI campus) has implemented a unit based performance measurement and incentive system that has worked favour...Starting at €5.74
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GAIL (India) Limited: Transforming Safety Culture
Ranjeet Nambudiri; Swati GhulyaniCase IVEY-9B18C028-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyGAIL (India) Limited (GAIL), a public-sector undertaking, was India’s largest gas transmission and marketing company. As a leader in India’s gas and energy sector, the organization aimed to set a benchmark for other companies in the industry by implementing the best safety practices for its employees. In late 2013, GAIL’s top management decided to implement the behaviour-based safety (BBS) program across all of the company’s work sites. BBS was a...Starting at €8.20