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- 28 Oct 2015
- News
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
- August 2013 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Coffee Wars in India: Café Coffee Day Takes On the Global Brands
By: David B. Yoffie and Tanya Bijlani
Café Coffee Day (CCD) is contemplating how to respond to the entry of Starbucks into the Indian coffee chain market. The case study describes the emergence of CCD as the leading coffee chain in India, with over 1,400 cafes in India. In early 2013, Starbucks, the...
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Yoffie, David B., and Tanya Bijlani. "Coffee Wars in India: Café Coffee Day Takes On the Global Brands." Harvard Business School Case 714-409, August 2013. (Revised July 2014.)
- July 2013 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
BMVSS: Changing Lives, One Jaipur Limb at a Time
By: Srikant Datar and Saloni Chaturvedi
Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known...
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Keywords:
Nonprofit Organizations;
Financial Condition;
Health Care and Treatment;
Diversity;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Health Industry;
India;
Asia
Datar, Srikant, and Saloni Chaturvedi. "BMVSS: Changing Lives, One Jaipur Limb at a Time." Harvard Business School Case 114-007, July 2013. (Revised May 2024.)
- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi, the prominent Indian actress, explains her belief that art is a tool of social change capable of shifting the prevailing societal views, especially about gender, and how this conviction has...
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- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
I'm in a winter coat and hat in the January pre-dawn cold and dark, standing on sandbags on a riverbank in the middle of Uttar Pradesh, India. Pilgrims and the faithful and the respectful come to the river this morning by the hundreds, clad in the minimum, praying and...
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- December 2012 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
BMS-Biocon Research Center: Growing a Joint Research Venture in India
By: Vicki Sato, Sen Chai, Rich Ballenger, Christine Chi, Alexander Down and Ross Leimberg
Bristol Myers Squibb, a multi-national pharmaceutical company, is seeking to globalize its R&D strategy while managing costs. It has formed a joint venture with an Indian company, which has worked well, but now faces a strategic decision on how and whether to continue.
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Keywords:
Pharmaceuticals;
Global Innovation;
Research And Development;
Biomedical Research;
Joint Ventures;
India;
United States
Sato, Vicki, Sen Chai, Rich Ballenger, Christine Chi, Alexander Down, and Ross Leimberg. "BMS-Biocon Research Center: Growing a Joint Research Venture in India." Harvard Business School Case 613-072, December 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
In a hugely ambitious project, the Unique Identification Authority of India has been charged with implementing a nationwide program to register and assign a one-of-a-kind ID number to every Indian resident—some 1.2 billion people—by 2020...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Sep 2010
- News
India's Online Auction Pioneers
- 25 Apr 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Using Design Thinking to Invent a Low-Cost Prosthesis for Land Mine Victims
- February 2006 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Rico Auto Industries: Raising Private Equity in India
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
The CEO of a publicly traded Indian auto components manufacturer must decide whether to accept an investment from a consortium of private equity firms. Describes the decision process for both the private equity investors and the entrepreneur and profiles the...
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Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Rico Auto Industries: Raising Private Equity in India." Harvard Business School Case 806-079, February 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
- 15 Jan 2020
- Video
Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi
P.R.S Oberoi, Chair of the iconic Indian luxury travel company Oberoi Hotel and Resorts, holds business largely responsible for most of the corruption in India, but argues that there is now an increasing...
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- February 2008
- Case
Monitor's Opportunities in India (A)
By: Juan Alcacer and Jan W. Rivkin
The CEO of a strategy consulting firm must decide which of the firm's functions, if any, to move to India. In particular, he wonders whether business research--currently conducted by highly paid consultants in developed countries--can be conducted more efficiently and...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Consulting Industry;
India
Alcacer, Juan, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Monitor's Opportunities in India (A)." Harvard Business School Case 708-482, February 2008.
- 17 Jul 2011
- News
Why India can't feed her people
- 21 Jan 2021
- Video
M. V. Subbiah
MV Subbiah, the Executive Chairman of the Murugappa Group, a large Indian business conglomerate, discusses the group’s AMM Foundation and its community initiatives that focuses primarily on small towns and villages. This includes the creation of four schools, the...
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- June 1996 (Revised February 1998)
- Case
Repositioning Ranbaxy
A leading Indian pharmaceutical company reacts to changes in its industry by trying to reposition along several dimensions from developing markets to developed ones, from bulk drugs toward pharmaceuticals in dosage forms, and from reverse-engineering products developed...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Expansion;
Industry Structures;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
India
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Kazbi Kothavala. "Repositioning Ranbaxy." Harvard Business School Case 796-181, June 1996. (Revised February 1998.)
Krishna G. Palepu
KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean... View Details
- December 2014 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar
By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and David Lane
Late in 2013, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez was considering whether or how to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India while expanding access to medicine and health information to millions of...
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Keywords:
Shared Value;
India;
Kenya;
Vietnam;
Novartis;
Arogya Parivar;
Social Business;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Viet Nam;
Kenya;
India
Porter, Michael E., Mark R. Kramer, and David Lane. "Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar." Harvard Business School Case 715-411, December 2014. (Revised October 2017.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing Primary Education in the Himalayan Region
By: Akshay Mangla
Himachal Pradesh outperforms other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through comparative field research, this article finds that bureaucratic norms—unwritten rules that guide public officials—influence how well state agencies deliver services...
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Keywords:
India;
Norms;
State Capacity;
Civil Society;
Policy Implementation;
Education;
Policy;
Performance Capacity;
Education Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
India
Mangla, Akshay. "Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing Primary Education in the Himalayan Region." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-099, April 2014. (Revised October 2015.)