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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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BabbaCo
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Jain, GauravCase HBS-813107-EEntrepreneurshipHaving just raised a Series B financing, the case protagonist is faced with a tough decision: should she "step on the gas" and scale the customer base, or continue focusing on fine-tuning the product and business model. The case describes the various marketing channels employed by the BabbaCo team (Search, Email, Social Media, Deal Sites, Affiliates, etc.), including the strategy and effectiveness for each. Readers can use this knowledge to evalu...Starting at €8.20
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Growth Hacking at Bazaart (B)
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-815077-EEntrepreneurshipGrowth Hacking at Bazaart (B)" provides a brief update of what has transpired at Bazaart since the timing of "Growth Hacking at Bazaart (A).Starting at €5.74
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C16 Biosciences: Lab-Grown Palm Oil
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-820008-EEntrepreneurshipSynthetic biology start-up C16 Biosciences wants to solve a big problem: replace palm oil, a major contributor to deforestation and climate change, with a lab-grown substitute. CEO Shara Ticku has ambitious plans to supply her lab-grown palm oil to food manufacturers, who use palm oil liberally in a variety of products from ice cream to margarine. In bringing her product to market, Ticku faces a tough decision. Should she roll out the product fir...Starting at €8.20
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C16 Biosciences: Lab-Grown Palm Oil, Teaching Plan
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Hull, Olivia; Martin, MelTeaching Note HBS-820071-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching plan for case 820008.Starting at €0.00
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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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KhataBook
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Mnookin, Allison; Barnett, JamesCase HBS-821006-EEntrepreneurshipIn January 2020, India-based KhataBook, a digital ledger app for small businesses, is led by CEO Ravish Naresh, as his team faces a series of dilemmas regarding where to focus next.Starting at €8.20
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Growth Hacking at Bazaart (A)
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-815001-EEntrepreneurshipThe four founding members of Bazaart-a young Israeli company whose sole product was its eponymous mobile application (app) which allowed users to create collages from photographs and other images-face an important strategic decision in June 2014. Since its founding roughly two years earlier, the company had raised very little money from outside investors. Gili Golander, one of the founders and Bazaart's chief marketing officer, utilized a number ...Starting at €8.20
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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