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NPI in China: Organizing for Social Good
Oana Branzei; Yanfei HuCase IVEY-9B13M122-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyNPI is a Shanghai-based social venture that actively promotes social innovation and cultivates social entrepreneurs by granting crucial support to start-up and small- to medium-sized grassroots non-profit and non-governmental organizations. The company was founded in 2006 when the Chinese government had loosened its restrictions on private donations to charitable causes and cautiously welcomed private non-profit organizations to enter the social ...Starting at €8.20
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Tata: Leadership With Trust
Oana BranzeiCase IVEY-9B10M025-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyThe case illustrates the opportunities, challenges and trade-offs involved in the design, evolution and institutionalization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainability (CS) within the Tata Group, an India-based indigenous multinational enterprise (MNE) with a unique 140-year old commitment to the community as the key stakeholder of business. Despite the 2008-2009 global recession, the Tata Group topped the economic valu...Starting at €8.20
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Bayer CropScience in India (B): Value-Driven Strategy
Charles Dhanaraj; Oana Branzei; Satyajeet SubramanianCase IVEY-9B10M062-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyThis supplement to Bayer CropScience in India (A): Against Child Labor focuses on Bayer’s formulation of a value-driven strategy with three pillars: communication, implementation, and education.Starting at €5.74
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SEWA (B): Ela Bhatt
Sonia Mehrotra; Oana BranzeiCase IVEY-9B14C019-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategySupplment to 9B14C018.Starting at €5.74
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Sarvajal: Water for All
Macomber, John D.; Sinha, MonaCase HBS-211028-EFinanceEntrepreneur wrestles with business model using SMS and RFID technology, franchising, and leasing to rapidly grow off-the-grid water purification business without subsidies. The company seeks to provide potable water services to rural and urban India wherStarting at €8.20
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eHealthpoint: Healthcare for Rural India
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Sinha, Mona; Vrolyk, ElizabethCase HBS-812020-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Healthpoint Services sought to address rural India's shortage of quality and affordable healthcare with a multi-service platform that comprised telemedical health clinics called eHealthpoints, clean drinking water, a diagnostic lab, and a pharmacy. Could they convince rural Indians to leapfrog from local healers to telemedicine? And could they convince Investors that their c...Starting at €8.20
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Bayer CropScience in India (A): Against Child Labor
Charles Dhanaraj; Oana Branzei; Satyajeet SubramanianCase IVEY-9B10M061-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Indian Management Issues and Opportunities Award, 2012 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. This case explores value-driven strategy formulation and implementation by bringing to the fore issues of ethics, responsible leadership, social intiatives in emerging markets, and the global-local tensions in corporate social responsibility. It examines how Bayer CropScience addressed the iss...Starting at €8.20
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SEWA (A): Ela Bhatt
Sonia Mehrotra; Oana BranzeiCase IVEY-9B14C018-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Responsible Leadership category, 2014 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. In February 2014, a McKinsey Global Institute report proposed tracking an empowerment line that could enable India’s citizens to get out of poverty by providing the resources they needed to build better lives. This prompted Ela Bhatt, founder of the India-based Self-Employed Women’s Association, to take stock ...Starting at €8.20
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Nano Tata-Logy: The People's Car
Oana Branzei; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B08M074-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe case illustrates the opportunities, challenges and trade-offs involved in the design, prototyping, and marketing of the Nano - the People's Car - by Tata Motors Ltd (TML), a Tata Group Company. The case is set nine months after the January 2008 unveiling of the Nano concept car in New Delhi, India. The company's managing director faces multiple dilemmas in rolling the Nano off the production lines at the manufacturing plant in Singur, includi...Starting at €8.20
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On-Time Delivery, Every Time (Spanish version)
Thomke, Stefan; Sinha, MonaCase HBS-612S03Service and Operations ManagementThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). Describes the Mumbai-based Dabbawala organization, which achieves very high service performance (6 Sigma equivalent or better) with a low-cost and very simple operating system. The case explores all aspects of their system (mission, information management, material flows, human resource system, process...Starting at €8.20