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Sapient Consulting: Enriching Experience Using Hybrid Agile Approach
Aparna Raman; Sangeeta Shah BharadwajCase IVEY-9B13E028-EInformation Technologies, StrategyIn December 2005, Sapient Consulting signed a fixed-price contract with U.S.-based Global HR Outsourcing Inc. to design a human resources portal for its international customers. Sapient’s senior manager of project management, who was based in India, had been handed the project with full faith that it would not only be delivered on time but within the fixed price and using the new agile hybrid methodology. The client wanted the portal built for th...Starting at €8.20
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DXSD: Transforming Migrations
Chitra Sharma; Sangeeta Shah BharadwajCase IVEY-9B17E007-EInformation Technologies, StrategyOn January 23, 2015, DXSD India received an opportunity to add a complex new line of business to the company’s value chain. The head of DXSD India, a shared service division of a U.K. bank, was concerned about his company’s ability to take on more complex work. Gaps had been identified in the existing process migration framework, so a new framework was proposed to fix the gaps. The new framework was not tested and did not yet have approval from t...Starting at €8.20
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Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal
Malloy, Christopher J.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Sobti, InakshiCase HBS-218100-EFinanceAfter the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Group, a billion-dollar conglomerate in Nepal decides to play a pivotal role in re-building the country. The Group's philanthropic arm (Chaudhary Foundation) works with stakeholders and develops a blue print for short and long- term relief measures. The management needs to address several questions as they navigate the foundations' course. What element of relief work should the foundation focus on? S...Starting at €8.20
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Ghassan Nuqul and the Nuqul Group: Preserving a Father's Legacy
Wing, Christina R.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Thapar, AlpanaCase HBS-624030-EService and Operations ManagementThe Nuqul Group was established in 1952 by Elia Nuqul, a Palestinian refugee who fled his hometown in 1948 with his family to Jordan. He overcame many hardships in his initial years there, but subsequently started a trading business that grew to become one of Jordan's largest family businesses. Its flagship company, Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH), was a leader in hygienic paper products across the Middle East and North Africa. In March 2023, Ghassan...Starting at €8.20
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Building India's 2.0: PayNearby
Cohen, Lauren H.; Hagist, Spencer C. N.Case HBS-221027-EFinanceHeadquartered in Mumbai, India, FinTech startup Nearby Technologies has seen its flagship brand, PayNearby, rapidly flourish across most of its target market within just four years. The unprecedented success of its payment app, which allows users to accesStarting at €8.20
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VINSUN Infra Engineering: ERP on Premise or on Cloud
Sumedha Chauhan; Sangeeta Shah BharadwajCase IVEY-9B13E018-EInformation Technologies, StrategyThe managing director of a small- to medium-sized electrical firm faces a major challenge: he realizes that the firm he founded has grown so significantly that information management has become very difficult. For solving issues of data integrity, redundancy, incompleteness and backup, he obtains quotations for implementation of enterprise resource planning from different vendors. Meanwhile, he discusses the issue of implementing the new system w...Starting at €8.20
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Shanda Family Office
Malloy, Christopher J.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Alamsyah, EssieCase HBS-218102-EFinanceTianqiao Chen, founder and CEO of Shanda Group, has set up his family office in the U.S. in 2016 after exiting from Shanda's Internet games business in China in 2014, again pioneering an unconventional approach to the management of a family office.Starting at €8.20
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fidentiaX: The Tradable Insurance Marketplace on Blockchain, Teaching Note
Braun, Alexander; Cohen, Lauren H.; Xu, JiahuaTeaching Note HBS-220037-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 219116.Starting at €0.00
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VINSUN Infra Engineering: ERP on Premise or on Cloud (Spanish version)
Sumedha Chauhan; Sangeeta Shah BharadwajCase IVEY-9B13ES018Information Technologies, StrategyThe managing director of a small- to medium-sized electrical firm faces a major challenge: he realizes that the firm he founded has grown so significantly that information management has become very difficult. For solving issues of data integrity, redundancy, incompleteness and backup, he obtains quotations for implementation of enterprise resource planning from different vendors. Meanwhile, he discusses the issue of implementing the new system w...Starting at €8.20
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A & S Software: Evolving Business Models
Nittala Sreenivasa S. Sharma; Sangeeta Shah BharadwajCase IVEY-9B14E026-EInformation Technologies, StrategyThe director of A & S Software Group was recalling his entrepreneurial journey. It was in August 2013, and over the past 16 years he had seen the evolution of the company’s flagship product — enterprise resource planning software for educational institutes — and a variety of business models associated with it. While the product strategy evolved through various stages, he had conceptualized Blue Print software as a tool to enable the rapid develop...Starting at €8.20