Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Barefoot College of Tilonia: Lighting Up Rural Lives
Sunita Mehta; Surya Kant Sharma; Raavi RadhikaCase IVEY-9B16M199-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn September 2013, Sanjit “Bunker” Roy was honoured with an award for his vision and leadership in addressing global problems through his novel organization, Barefoot College (Barefoot). Barefoot’s mission was to improve the lives of impoverished rural residents by upgrading their existing skills with training so the villages and their residents were self-sufficient. When he started the college in the state of Rajasthan, India, in 1972, Roy never...Starting at €8.20
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Transforming ICRISAT: The Leadership of Dr. William Dar
Sunita Mehta; Surya Kant SharmaCase IVEY-9B12C016-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe case focuses on an agricultural institute, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT), part of an international agricultural research consortium. Since its inception in 1972, ICRISAT had been a premier agricultural research institute with substiantial international and Indian funding. However, mismanagement and lack of initiative of senior leadership had resulted in multiple crises in organizational functio...Starting at €8.20
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FieldFresh Foods: Frozen Vegetables Business
Davinder Singh; Uday GosainCase IVEY-9B15M060-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA joint venture company that started its operations in 2004 in India was in the business of growing, processing and marketing fresh fruits and vegetables, both in India and abroad. As new market opportunities emerged in response to the growing demand for frozen products in the domestic market, the company launched frozen vegetables in the Indian market in 2011 and successfully established the supply chain covering contract farming, processing and...Starting at €8.20
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Books for Change: Reorienting Business and Marketing Strategies
Davinder Singh; Vinod KaliaCase IVEY-9B12A060-EMarketing, StrategyBooks for Change (BfC), a small publisher, produces books that focus on the social sector. The company’s purpose is to raise awareness about specific development issues among academia, researchers and policy makers. BfC was started in 1998 by ActionAid, an international non-governmental organization working in the field of social development. Like other small publishers, BfC faces various challenges, including a lower demand for its books and dif...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
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GMR Group: Leadership Challenges in Building a World-class Airport
Sunita Mehta; Surya Kant SharmaCase IVEY-9B13C040-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAn infrastructure conglomerate is facing serious challenges following its construction of a world-class airport. The group's leader possesses unique managerial skills, coherent leadership and clear vision, but the airport must contend with an unstable political and economic environment, both nationally and internationally, as well as a number of delays and bureaucratic hurdles. As a result of these external factors, revenues have been much lower ...Starting at €8.20