Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Bharat Petroleum's Upstream Strategy and Exploration Success
Noel Machado; G. Krishnakumar; Sanjeev Pillai; P.V.S.L. NarasimhamCase IVEY-9B13M128-EStrategyBharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian public-sector oil company that features among the Fortune Global 500. The company has historically been in the business of refining and marketing petroleum products. For about 25 years, BPCL operated in a protected environment where it was assured 12 per cent post-tax returns by the Indian government. In 2002, the government stopped guaranteeing returns to its oil companies, and BPCL found ...Starting at €8.20
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Balancing Engagement and Innovation at Bharat Petroleum
Snehal Shah; Noel Machado; Jyoti Gouda; Vasudha AgarwalCase IVEY-9B17C015-ELeadership and People Management, StrategySince 2000, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, a global Fortune 500 petroleum company largely owned by the government of India, had institutionalized an internal competition called IDEAS. Each year, several employees participated by submitting their innovative ideas to the competition. Many of these innovations involved significant savings and/or improvements. However, by 2015, a degree of fatigue had set in. Was IDEAS an innovation engine or ...Starting at €8.20
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Forbes Technosys Limited (B): Bill Payment Kiosk Business
Davinder Singh; Anuj SahuCase IVEY-9B16M222-EStrategyIn May 2010, Forbes Technosys Limited (FTL) was not doing well. After more than a year, the company’s bill payment kiosk business was losing money and no longer seemed viable. The time had come to re-evaluate all aspects of this business line and make decisions regarding FTL’s future course of action. Accordingly, FTL’s chief executive officer proposed an idea regarding prepaid mobile recharges using the existing bill payment kiosks, along with a...Starting at €5.74
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Forbes Technosys Limited (A): Bill Payment Kiosk Business
Davinder Singh; Anuj SahuCase IVEY-9B16M221-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn May 2010, Forbes Technosys Limited (FTL) was not doing well. After more than a year, the company’s bill payment kiosk business was losing money and no longer seemed viable. The time had come to re-evaluate all aspects of this business line and make decisions regarding FTL’s future course of action. Accordingly, FTL’s chief executive officer proposed an idea regarding prepaid mobile recharges using the existing bill payment kiosks, along with a...Starting at €8.20