Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Gokaldas Exports (A): The Challenge of Change
Bloom, N; Van, Reenen, J; Melvin, SCase SGSB-SM213A-EStrategyGokaldas Exports was a family-owned business founded in 1979 that had grown into India’s largest apparel exporter by the mid 2000s. Its founder, Jhamandas H. Hinduja, had bequeathed control of the company to three sons, each of whom brought in his own son. By the end of 2004, Gokaldas had 43 factories with 258 production lines scattered in and around the southern India city of Bangalore. It had more than 35,000 workers, which was nearly double ...Starting at €8.20
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Restructuring a Utility: RWE's Carve-out of innogy
Reichelstein, S; Comello, S; Bebb, DCase SGSB-SM278-EStrategyIn 2016, the German utility RWE undertook a carve-out in which substantial parts of the company’s assets and liabilities were offered to the general public as part of an IPO. The case describes the developments in the German energy landscape that led RWE to this unusual move. The case also examines how investors responded to this carve-out in terms of the valuations attached to RWE and the new subsidiary.Starting at €8.20
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Nuria Chinchilla: el poder de cambiar la empresa
Apfeffer, Jeffrey; Anderson, Megan ElisabethCase SGSB-OB67ESStrategyEn 1993, Nuria Chinchilla había completado recientemente su tesis doctoral en IESE Business School en Barcelona, sobre el tema de la rotación organizacional, sin un enfoque particular en las mujeres, los arreglos laborales flexibles o los problemas laborales. Ella eligió permanecer en el IESE, donde había trabajado desde principios de la década de 1980 como profesora asistente. Para el año 2003, poco más de una década después, había alcanzado e...Starting at €8.20
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ACCESS Health India and The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
Schulman, Kevin; Narayan, AdityaCase SGSB-SM359-EStrategyWhile India had made significant progress against diseases like polio and tetanus, the pandemic revealed marked differences in COVID-related illness and death among the country’s most vulnerable. Urban-rural and other societal divides added to long-time disparities in access to health care, and public resources could be overwhelmed. Could a new national health plan and digital health mission allow India to innovate on health care, with the goal...Starting at €8.20
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Deutsche Telecom in 2016: Driving Disruption from within the Industry
Burgelman, R; Schifrin, DCase SGSB-SM255-EStrategyIn 2016, Deutsche Telekom’s CEO Tim Höttges was steering the €69 billion telecom incumbent in new directions and seeking to disrupt the industry from within. The company’s tagline was “Life is For Sharing.” Its goal was to be Europe’s leading digital communication services company that was most trusted by consumers and business customers for safely sharing content. Höttges wanted to achieve this by having the best network, the best service, the b...Starting at €8.20
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Deutsche Telekom 2020: Leading The Digital Transformation
Burgelman, Robert; Sutherland, MargotCase SGSB-SM337-EStrategyTim Höttges was at the outset of his seventh year as CEO of Deutsche Telekom (DT) in 2020. The company served more than 184 million mobile customers and had a presence in over 50 countries. Over the course of the previous 7 years, European telecommunication companies had experienced varying degrees of success. Revenues for telecommunication companies in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain as a whole fell by 14 percent from 2012-2019, while DT’s re...Starting at €8.20
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Gokaldas Exports (B): Update
Bloom, N; Van, Reenen, J; Melvin, SCase SGSB-SM213B-EStrategyIn August 2007, the United States-based private equity firm the Blackstone Group acquired a 50.1 percent stake in Gokaldas Exports for $116 million. The investment was a two-part deal that included an “open offer” to Gokaldas shareholders for another 20 percent of outstanding shares valued at approximately $45 million. This gave Blackstone a total share of just over 68 percent while the Hinduja family retained 20 percent and other shareholders t...Starting at €5.74
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Ttech (C) in 2018: Hitting the Gas Pedal
Robert SiegelCase SGSB-SM 185C-EStrategyAn update on TTTech after the (B) case from the period 2010-2013Starting at €5.74