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Alibaba Group (Spanish version)
Wulf, Julie M.Case HBS-710S18StrategyDiscusses how Alibaba Group successfully managed new business ventures to become a leader in China's online marketplaces. Students follow Alibaba Group's transition from a startup to a multibusiness firm with over 15,000 employees in just over a decade. They analyze the evolving dynamics of internal competition and cooperation among Alibaba Group's subsidiaries. Students are also asked to address Alibaba Group's strategy, the role of its corporat...Starting at €8.20
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NPI in China: Organizing for Social Good
Oana Branzei; Yanfei HuCase IVEY-9B13M122-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyNPI is a Shanghai-based social venture that actively promotes social innovation and cultivates social entrepreneurs by granting crucial support to start-up and small- to medium-sized grassroots non-profit and non-governmental organizations. The company was founded in 2006 when the Chinese government had loosened its restrictions on private donations to charitable causes and cautiously welcomed private non-profit organizations to enter the social ...Starting at €8.20
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Tata: Leadership With Trust
Oana BranzeiCase IVEY-9B10M025-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyThe case illustrates the opportunities, challenges and trade-offs involved in the design, evolution and institutionalization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainability (CS) within the Tata Group, an India-based indigenous multinational enterprise (MNE) with a unique 140-year old commitment to the community as the key stakeholder of business. Despite the 2008-2009 global recession, the Tata Group topped the economic valu...Starting at €8.20
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Bayer CropScience in India (B): Value-Driven Strategy
Charles Dhanaraj; Oana Branzei; Satyajeet SubramanianCase IVEY-9B10M062-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyThis supplement to Bayer CropScience in India (A): Against Child Labor focuses on Bayer’s formulation of a value-driven strategy with three pillars: communication, implementation, and education.Starting at €5.74
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SEWA (B): Ela Bhatt
Sonia Mehrotra; Oana BranzeiCase IVEY-9B14C019-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategySupplment to 9B14C018.Starting at €5.74
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Bayer CropScience in India (A): Against Child Labor
Charles Dhanaraj; Oana Branzei; Satyajeet SubramanianCase IVEY-9B10M061-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Indian Management Issues and Opportunities Award, 2012 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. This case explores value-driven strategy formulation and implementation by bringing to the fore issues of ethics, responsible leadership, social intiatives in emerging markets, and the global-local tensions in corporate social responsibility. It examines how Bayer CropScience addressed the iss...Starting at €8.20
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SEWA (A): Ela Bhatt
Sonia Mehrotra; Oana BranzeiCase IVEY-9B14C018-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Responsible Leadership category, 2014 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. In February 2014, a McKinsey Global Institute report proposed tracking an empowerment line that could enable India’s citizens to get out of poverty by providing the resources they needed to build better lives. This prompted Ela Bhatt, founder of the India-based Self-Employed Women’s Association, to take stock ...Starting at €8.20
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Nano Tata-Logy: The People's Car
Oana Branzei; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B08M074-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe case illustrates the opportunities, challenges and trade-offs involved in the design, prototyping, and marketing of the Nano - the People's Car - by Tata Motors Ltd (TML), a Tata Group Company. The case is set nine months after the January 2008 unveiling of the Nano concept car in New Delhi, India. The company's managing director faces multiple dilemmas in rolling the Nano off the production lines at the manufacturing plant in Singur, includi...Starting at €8.20
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Alibaba's Taobao (A) & (B), Teaching Note
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Wulf, Julie M.Teaching Note HBS-712477-EStrategyTeaching Note for 709-456 and 709-457.Starting at €0.00
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Alibaba's Taobao (A)
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Wulf, Julie M.Case HBS-709456-EStrategyExamines the decision of Alibaba Group to diversify from an international business-to-business (B2B) exchange (Alibaba.com) into a B2C and C2C exchange (Taobao.com) for Chinese retailers and consumers. In China, Taobao had managed to displace the once dominant eBay, the world's largest consumer marketplace. However, the company had little revenue because it offered services free of charge.Starting at €8.20