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Hindustan Lever reinventa la rueda (C)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1426StrategyEl caso C finaliza la serie proporcionando información sobre cómo Unilever se introdujo en los mercados BOP en Indonesia y Brasil, y amplía el tema más allá para responder a la pregunta: ¿Cómo puede beneficiarse Unilever de las lecciones aprendidas en HLL?¿Ha encontrado Hindustan Lever una nueva estrategia para ganar amplios mercados globales en su esfuerzo por satisfacer las necesidades cotidianas de la gente corriente en todo el mundo? ¿O simpl...Starting at €5.74
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A Foot In the Door: Hindustan Lever Breaks Into the Mass Market
Ellison B.; Moller D.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1390-EStrategyHindustan Lever (HLL), a subsidiary of Unilever and undisputed leader in the Fast Moving Consumer Products segment in India, is caught out by the success of a local firm, Nirma, in selling to the bottom of the social pyramid. Having ignored Nirma's activities for several years in the belief that Nirma was targeting a segment that HLL was not interested in, HLL decides to enter the market at the bottom of the social pyramid by developing a totally...Starting at €8.20
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Don't Integrate Your Acquisitions, Partner with Them (Spanish version)
Kale, Prashant; Singh, Harbir; Raman, Anand P.Article HBS-R0912MStrategyA takeover usually signals the demise of one of the two corporations involved in the tussle - no prizes for guessing which one. Breaking with this practice, some companies from emerging markets are preserving the identity of companies they've taken over and giving them near-total autonomy. The acquirers (the AV Birla Group, the Mahindra group, and the Tata group in India; the Ulker Group in Turkey; and AmBev in Brazil, among others) have also ret...Starting at €8.20
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Leadership Lessons from India
Cappelli, Peter; Singh, Harbir; Singh, Jitendra V.; Useem, MichaelArticle HBS-R1003G-ELeadership and People ManagementUntil recently India was seen by Western businesses primarily as a source of cheap, low-skill labor. But over the past decade the country has attracted a flood of high-skill jobs from the West. Meanwhile, India's economy has grown at roughly 9% a year, and some of its largest companies have grown at twice that rate. What accounts for this? A host of economic, policy, and other environmental factors have played important roles, but the authors asc...Starting at €8.20
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Learning from the India Way: Redefining Business Leadership
Cappelli, Peter; Singh, Harbir; Singh, Jitendra V.; Useem, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-5822BC-EThe roaring success of Indian business in the last two decades points the world toward a different enterprise model than the one widely practiced in the U.S., with its emphasis on financial goals and shareholder value. Indeed, the global economic crisis of 2008-2009-widely viewed as being triggered by American excesses-has rekindled the debate about the proper role of personal gain and shareholder value in business affairs. In this chapter, autho...Starting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever reinventa la rueda (A)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1424StrategyEsta serie de casos trata de la experiencia pionera de Unilever en la llamada "base de la pirámide" (BDP). La BDP consiste en cerca de 4.000 millones de personas que viven en la pobreza y están excuidas de la economía de mercado. La BDP es un nuevo concepto de dirección que persigue el cumplimiento de un doble objetivo: promover el desarrollo social y permitir a las empresas recobrar los índices de ganancia de doble dígito. Durante casi cien años...Starting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever reinventa la rueda (B)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1425StrategyEl caso (B) describe cómo HLL creó un modelo nuevo de negocio para competir en el mercado BOP y los increíbles resultados que obtuvo. Concluye planteando las siguientes cuestiones: ¿Son sostenibles estos índices de crecimiento? Y si lo son, ¿pueden multiplicarse con la política multilocal y multinacional de Unilever?Starting at €5.74
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Hindustan Lever Re-invents the Wheel (A)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1424-EStrategyThis case series deals with the pioneering experience of Unilever at the "base of the pyramid" (BOP). The BOP consists of those 4 billion people excluded from the market economy and living in poverty. The BOP is a new management concept that conveys the promise to fulfill a twofold objective: promote social development and allow companies to regain double digit growth rates. For almost 100 years, Hindustan Lever (HLL), a subsidiary of Unilever, h...Starting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever Re-invents the Wheel (B)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1425-EStrategyCase B describes how HLL created a brand new business model to compete in the BOP market and the outstanding results it obtained. It concludes by posing the following questions: Are these growth rates sustainable? And if they are, can they be replicated with Unilever's Multi-local, Multi-national approach?Starting at €5.74
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Hindustan Lever Re-invents the Wheel (C)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1426-EStrategyCase C ends the case series with information on how Unilever approached BOP markets in Indonesia and Brazil and broadens the question further to ask: How can Unilever benefit from the lessons learned at HLL? Has Hindustan Lever found a new strategy to gain larger markets globally in its quest to meet the everyday needs of everyday people everywhere? Or had it merely found a way to push out a young competitive upstart in India without there being ...Starting at €5.74