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The "Jaipur foot"
de Matos, Luis; Viassa Monteiro, EugénioCase AESE-DG-A-773(I)-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThe case presents a new business model to produce low cost prosthesis, made and adapted in less than a day and with no need of maintenance for several years. Also, the low cost makes the prosthesis accessible to just about anybody.The case describes a company which produces and places foot or leg prosthesis, as a way to alleviate people suffering from a deficiency which seriously impairs their quality of life. They are people who for some reason ...Starting at €8.20
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Indus Towers: From Infancy to Maturity
Gulati, Ranjay; Sytch, Maxim; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-415005-ELeadership and People ManagementIndus Towers, the world's largest telecom tower company, is a joint venture between three telecom rivals in India. These rivals-Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, and Idea Cellular-combined their telecom towers to provide "shared telecom infrastructure" to wireless telecom operators on a nondiscriminatory basis. The CEO has transformed Indus from a struggling startup with a monopolistic mindset into a customer-centric organization. He now wants to gr...Starting at €8.20
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Indus Towers: Collaborating with Competitors on Infrastructure
Gulati, Ranjay; Martinez-Jerez, F. Asis; Narayanan, V.G.; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-110057-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case describes the formation of Indus Towers, the largest telecom tower company in the world which has a joint venture created to build and manage the passive infrastructure of wireless telecom operators by bringing together three competitors in India's tough telecom market-Bharti AirteI, Vodafone Essar, and Idea Cellular-and merging their tower holdings. It focuses on the issue as to how do you collaborate with your competitors in setting up...Starting at €8.20
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The Mahindra Group: Leading with Purpose
Gulati, Ranjay; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-421091-EKnowledge and CommunicationIndia headquartered Mahindra Group is a multibillion-dollar federation of companies operating across the globe. It is ahead of its time in articulating its purpose and mapping its values, something it had first done at inception and then refreshed yet again as 'Rise' in 2011. Over the past decade, it has cascaded the essence of 'Rise' as a purpose through the organization. The idea was to "challenge conventional thinking and innovatively use all ...Starting at €8.20
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Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company
Gulati, Ranjay; Tahilyani, Rachna; DeSantola, AliciaCase HBS-415034-ELeadership and People ManagementIt is January 2014 and Rahul Sharma, cofounder of Micromax Informatics (Micromax), the largest Indian mobile handset company, is preparing for an emergency conference call with his private equity investors. In the last six years, Micromax had grown its annual product revenues from $54M to over $1B. Unfortunately, it was difficult for the founding team to keep up with Micromax's rapid growth, triggering a series of missteps in 2010 that brought th...Starting at €8.20
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O "Pé de Jaipur"
de Matos, Luis; Viassa Monteiro, EugénioCase AESE-DG-A-773-PPAccounting and ControlO caso apresenta um novo modelo de negócio para produzir próteses de baixo custo, feitas e adaptadas em menos de um dia e sem necessidade de manutenção durante vários anos. Para além disso, o baixo custo permite que qualquer pessoa tenha acesso a essas próteses.O caso descreve uma empresa que produz e aplica próteses de pés e pernas enquanto forma de aliviar o sofrimento de pessoas com esta deficiência, a qual lhes diminui a qualidade de vida. Sã...Starting at €8.20