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Indus Towers: From Infancy to Maturity
Gulati, Ranjay; Sytch, Maxim; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-415005-ELeadership and People ManagementIndus Towers, the world's largest telecom tower company, is a joint venture between three telecom rivals in India. These rivals-Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, and Idea Cellular-combined their telecom towers to provide "shared telecom infrastructure" to wireless telecom operators on a nondiscriminatory basis. The CEO has transformed Indus from a struggling startup with a monopolistic mindset into a customer-centric organization. He now wants to gr...Starting at €8.20
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How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived
Gulati, Ranjay; Casto, Charles; Krontiris, CharlotteArticle HBS-R1407K-EIn March 2011 Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by three reactor explosions and three core meltdowns in the days following a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami that produced waves as high as 17 meters. The world is familiar with Daiichi's fate; less well known is the crisis at its sister plant, Daini, about 10 kilometers to the south. As a result of the storm, three of Daini's four reactors lacked sufficient power to achieve ...Starting at €8.20
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Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (A)
Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean; Yin, Wesley; Shotland, MarcCase HBS-909062-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Green Bank of the Philippines was known for its product innovation and its ability to bring new products to market. In 2002, Green Bank designed an untested commitment savings product that both gave individuals access to formal savings and helped them commit to reaching their savings goals. Omar Andaya, the Green Bank president, must decide how to evaluate the success of thi...Starting at €8.20
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Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (A), (B) and (C), Teaching Note
Ashraf, Nava; Johnson, KristinTeaching Note HBS-914022-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Teaching note for 909062, 914002, and 914003.Starting at €0.00
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Indus Towers: Collaborating with Competitors on Infrastructure
Gulati, Ranjay; Martinez-Jerez, F. Asis; Narayanan, V.G.; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-110057-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case describes the formation of Indus Towers, the largest telecom tower company in the world which has a joint venture created to build and manage the passive infrastructure of wireless telecom operators by bringing together three competitors in India's tough telecom market-Bharti AirteI, Vodafone Essar, and Idea Cellular-and merging their tower holdings. It focuses on the issue as to how do you collaborate with your competitors in setting up...Starting at €8.20
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Incentives at the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
Ashraf, Nava; Johnson, KristinCase HBS-914036-EStarting at €8.20
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Oral Rehydration Therapy, Teaching Note
Ashraf, Nava; Kindred, NatalieTeaching Note HBS-914038-EMarketingThis Teaching Note accompanies the case "Oral Rehydration Therapy" (911-035). The case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy (ORT). ORT treated extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading cause of death among young children in developing countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. Heralded in t...Starting at €0.00
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The Mahindra Group: Leading with Purpose
Gulati, Ranjay; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-421091-EKnowledge and CommunicationIndia headquartered Mahindra Group is a multibillion-dollar federation of companies operating across the globe. It is ahead of its time in articulating its purpose and mapping its values, something it had first done at inception and then refreshed yet again as 'Rise' in 2011. Over the past decade, it has cascaded the essence of 'Rise' as a purpose through the organization. The idea was to "challenge conventional thinking and innovatively use all ...Starting at €8.20
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Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company
Gulati, Ranjay; Tahilyani, Rachna; DeSantola, AliciaCase HBS-415034-ELeadership and People ManagementIt is January 2014 and Rahul Sharma, cofounder of Micromax Informatics (Micromax), the largest Indian mobile handset company, is preparing for an emergency conference call with his private equity investors. In the last six years, Micromax had grown its annual product revenues from $54M to over $1B. Unfortunately, it was difficult for the founding team to keep up with Micromax's rapid growth, triggering a series of missteps in 2010 that brought th...Starting at €8.20
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Oral Rehydration Therapy
Ashraf, Nava; Qureshi, ClaireCase HBS-911035-EMarketingThis case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy (ORT). ORT treated extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading cause of death among young children in developing countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. Heralded in the 1970s as one of the most important medical advancements of the 20th centur...Starting at €8.20