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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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Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits (Spanish version)
Bazerman, Max H.; Loewenstein, George; Moore, Don A.Article HBS-R0211GAccounting and ControlOn July 30, President Bush signed into law the Sarbanes-Oxley Act addressing corporate accountability. A response to recent financial scandals, the law tightened federal controls over the accounting industry and imposed tough new criminal penalties for fraud. The president proclaimed, "The era of low standards and false profits is over." If only it were that easy. The authors don't think corruption is the main cause of bad audits. Rather, they cl...Starting at €8.20
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Political and Economic History of the People's Republic of China: An Annotated Timeline
Kirby, William C.; Koll, Elisabeth; Abrami, Regina; McFarlan, F. WarrenCase HBS-309073-EBrief political, economic and social timeline of China from 1949 to present to give context on and provide overview of modern Chinese history.Starting 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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JWT China: Advertising for the New Chinese Consumer
Koll, ElisabethCase HBS-809079-EMarketingThis case analyzes the business strategy and expansion of JWT China from the late 1990s to 2008. As part of the world's fourth largest marketing communications network, JWT China grew into one of the largest integrated communications companies in China operating from offices in various parts of the country. The case provides students with a comprehensive history of and insights into China's advertising industry and the challenges for foreign and ...Starting at €8.20
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Financial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity
Koll, ElisabethCase HBS-809111-EFinanceProvides an analysis of why informal financial networks and institutions still play an extremely important role in China's economy in the 21st century. Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak financial system dominated by state-controlled banks and severely limited access to capital for private entrepreneurs and consumers. The case shows how the political climate, economic regu...Starting at €8.20
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The Rong Family: A Chinese Business History (TN)
Koll, ElisabethTeaching Note HBS-813082-ETeaching Note for 308066Starting 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