Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Managing Local Political Risk: Parking the Tata Nano (A) - (C) - Teaching note
Jha, S, Schifrin, DTeaching Note SGSB-P78TN-EEconomicsManaging Local Political Risk: Parking the Tata Nano highlights the role of political geography in shaping risks to businesses. The case has three parts: an (A) case, (B) case, and (C) case. The (A) case is set in 2006 and discusses the decision Tata Motors must make about where in India to locate a manufacturing plant to build the Nano – the world’s cheapest car. The (A) case presents four possible locations, and the students must evaluate which...Starting at €0.00
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Managing Local Political Risk: Parking the Tata Nano (A)
Jha, S, Schifrin, DCase SGSB-P78A-EEconomicsManaging Local Political Risk: Parking the Tata Nano highlights the role of political geography in shaping risks to businesses. The case has three parts: an (A) case, (B) case, and (C) case. The (A) case is set in 2006 and discusses the decision Tata Motors must make about where in India to locate a manufacturing plant to build the Nano – the world’s cheapest car. The (A) case presents four possible locations, and the students must evaluate which...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Local Political Risk: Parking the Tata Nano (B)
Jha, S, Schifrin, DCase SGSB-P78B-EEconomicsManaging Local Political Risk: Parking the Tata Nano highlights the role of political geography in shaping risks to businesses. The case has three parts: an (A) case, (B) case, and (C) case. The (A) case is set in 2006 and discusses the decision Tata Motors must make about where in India to locate a manufacturing plant to build the Nano – the world’s cheapest car. The (A) case presents four possible locations, and the students must evaluate which...Starting at €5.74
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Managing Local Political Risk: Parking the Tata Nano (C)
Jha, S, Schifrin, DCase SGSB-P78C-EEconomicsManaging Local Political Risk: Parking the Tata Nano highlights the role of political geography in shaping risks to businesses. The case has three parts: an (A) case, (B) case, and (C) case. The (A) case is set in 2006 and discusses the decision Tata Motors must make about where in India to locate a manufacturing plant to build the Nano – the world’s cheapest car. The (A) case presents four possible locations, and the students must evaluate which...Starting at €5.74
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Knights Apparel and the Alta Gracia Factory: Paying a Living Wage - Teaching Note
Paul Brest, Debra SchifrinnTeaching Note SGSB-SM237TN-EStrategyIn 2014 The Alta Gracia clothing factory in the Dominican Republic was doing something quite unusual in the industry; it was paying its employees a living wage, which was 350 percent higher than the country’s minimum wage. Knights Apparel, which owned the four-year old factory, also provided benefits, health care, and allowed the workers to unionize. Most apparel factories paid employees a minimum wage, which in some places was not enough to pay...Starting at €0.00
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MobiVi: Establishing Credit Lending, Micro Donations, and Allied Services in Vietnam Using Telecom Technologies
Lee, H; Tang, C; Masood, JCase SGSB-GS82-EService and Operations ManagementIn 1984, Trung Dung fled political persecution in Vietnam, the country of his birth, to arrive in the United States as a refugee with only $2 in his pocket. Over the next two decades, he proved his mettle as one of the most astute and successful Vietnamese-American entrepreneurs. Although Dung had never thought that he would return to Vietnam, the instinctive entrepreneur inside him recognized the opportunities presented by country’s rapidly de...Starting at €8.20
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Experian MicroAnalytics: Accelerating the Development of Monile Financial Services in Developing Markets
Lee, H; Tang, CCase SGSB-GS83-EService and Operations ManagementAs the world population exceeded 7 billion by the end of 2011, various agencies working to alleviate poverty had come to a general consensus that pure charity was not a sustainable solution. In the absence of venture capital and angel investors in developing markets, Microfinance (MF) was one of the most promising tools in the fight against poverty. MF institutions tended to focus on micro-lending, providing small loans to micro-entrepreneurs fro...Starting at €8.20
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Knights Apparel and the Alta Gracia Factory: Paying a Living Wage
Paul Brest, Debra SchifrinnCase SGSB-SM237-EStrategyIn 2014 The Alta Gracia clothing factory in the Dominican Republic was doing something quite unusual in the industry; it was paying its employees a living wage, which was 350 percent higher than the country’s minimum wage. Knights Apparel, which owned the four-year old factory, also provided benefits, health care, and allowed the workers to unionize. Most apparel factories paid employees a minimum wage, which in some places was not enough to pay...Starting at €8.20