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The Game of Financial Ratios
Pooja Gupta; Madhvi Sethi; Darroch A. RobertsonExercise IVEY-9B17B001-EAccounting and Control, StrategyThis exercise revolves around the rivalry between two financial analysts. Upset by their constant game of one-upmanship, an advisor to the governor of the Reserve Bank of India came up with a challenge for them to prove who was better. He provided them with financial data for the financial year ending March 2014 from 10 anonymous companies and asked them to match the financial data with specific industries given in a list. The challenge was timed...Starting at €8.20
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Swadhaar: Self-Support through Financial Services
Rajesh Panda; Madhvi Sethi; Pooja GuptaCase IVEY-9B20N002-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceSwadhaar FinServe Private Limited (Swadhaar), a non-banking financial company–microfinance institution (NBFC-MFI), was set up in Mumbai, India in 2008 with the objective of providing the urban poor with increased access to financial services. Swadhaar was a leading provider of financial services to clients in several major states of India. Between 2009 and 2013, there were major changes in the regulatory environment; some of these restricted the ...Starting at €8.20
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Innovation's Holy Grail
Prahalad, C.K.; Mashelkar, R.A.Article HBS-R1007N-EStrategyAffordability and sustainability, not premium pricing and abundance, are the new tenets of effective innovation. Westerners are struggling with the shift in mind-set, but a few emerging-market pioneers are showing the way: They're designing inexpensive products and manufacturing them with so little capital and on a scale so vast that their prices-1 cent for a one-minute telephone call, $2,000 for a car-are the lowest in the world. Nowhere is this...Starting at €8.20
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Cocreating Business's New Social Compact
Brugmann, Jeb; Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-R0702D-EEconomicsThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Moving beyond decades of mutual distrust and animosity, corporations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are learning to cooperate with each other. Realizing that their interests are converging, the two sides are working together to create innovative business ...Starting at €8.20
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Apollo Tyres: Investment Decision Dilemma
Varun Dawar; Rakesh ArrawatiaCase IVEY-9B14N032-EFinance, StrategyIn early March 2012, an investor sat at home in Gurgaon, India examining the latest financial information about Apollo Tyres Limited, India’s leading tire manufacturer. Over the past decade, the company had significantly diversified its product and geographic mix through organic investment and strategic acquisitions and had experienced superior growth opportunities. Yet, after almost doubling between 2007 and 2010, its share price had not seen an...Starting at €8.20
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IndusInd Bank: Residual Income Valuation
Varun Dawar; Rakesh Arrawatia; Saumya Ranjan Dash; Arit ChaudhuryCase IVEY-9B16N015-EFinance, StrategyIn early 2013, an analyst at an insurance company was examining whether IndusInd Bank, a mid-size bank in India, would be a good investment for the insurance fund’s equity portfolio. From January 2008 until March 30, 2013, the bank’s stock had tripled under its new management. The analyst wondered whether deploying funds in the bank would yield any significant returns. He decided to use the available financial information and the residual income ...Starting at €8.20
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Time Value of Money: A Home Investment Decision Dilemma
Arit Chaudhury; Varun Dawar; Rakesh ArrawatiaCase IVEY-9B17N016-EFinance, StrategyIn early 2016, Naresh Jain was busy looking at various rental properties on popular real estate listing websites. Because of a sudden downturn in business conditions and an immediate need for money, Jain’s landlord wanted to sell the property and therefore had asked Jain to vacate the premises within 30 days. Jain had been living in the spacious, two-bedroom apartment in North West Delhi for the past five years as it was within a reasonable commu...Starting at €8.20
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McDonald’s in India: Not a Happy Meal
Paul W. Beamish; Pooja Gupta; Madhvi SethiCase IVEY-9B19M129-EStrategyIn September 2017, news spread of McDonald’s India terminating its franchise arrangement with its joint venture (JV) in India. The termination notice was the newest step in the saga of the conflict between the two JV partners—US-based McDonald’s and the IStarting at €8.20
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Cocrear un nuevo pacto social para las empresas
Brugmann, Jeb; Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-R0702DEconomicsEste artículo incluye una vista previa de una página que resume rápidamente las ideas clave y proporciona una visión general de cómo los conceptos funcionan en la práctica, junto con sugerencias para la lectura adicional. Yendo más allá de décadas de mutua desconfianza y animosidad, corporaciones y organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) están aprendiendo a cooperar entre sí. Al darse cuenta de que sus intereses están convergiendo, las dos partes...Starting at €8.20
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Universal Basic Income: Is There a Case for India
Madhvi Sethi; Saina Baby; Vandita DarCase IVEY-9B20M130-EStrategyIndia’s Economic Survey 2016–17 proposed a gradual implementation of the concept of universal basic income (UBI) as the fastest way of providing a long-term solution to poverty. Large-scale inequality and poverty, along with huge misallocation and wastages in the existing welfare schemes, made India a perfect ground for experimenting with UBI. Though the rapid expansion of Jan Dhan–Aadhaar–Mobile infrastructure was expected to smoothen the execut...Starting at €8.20