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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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Leading Transformation
Immelt, Jeffrey R.; Gulati, Ranjay; Prokesch, StevenArticle HBS-R1705B-EDuring his 16 years as CEO, Jeffrey Immelt engineered a radical makeover of GE, repositioning the firm as a digital industrial company looking to define the future of the internet of things. In the main Spotlight article, he shares what he learned about leading a giant organization through massive changes. There are several lessons: (1) Be disciplined. This means nesting initiatives within one another and staying away from new ideas that don't fi...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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Leading Transformation (Spanish version)
Immelt, Jeffrey R.; Gulati, Ranjay; Prokesch, StevenArticle HBS-R1705BStrategy(1) Be disciplined. This means nesting initiatives within one another and staying away from new ideas that don't fit. (2) Soak. Effective leaders don't instantly react to emerging trends; they read, contemplate, and listen until they believe to their cores that the world is profoundly changing. (3) Make it existential. Every time Immelt drove a big change, he treated it as if it were life or death. (4) Be all in. You can't regard a transformatio...Starting at €8.20
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How to Execute on the Promise of Customer Focus (Spanish version)
Gulati, RanjayArticle HBS-R0705Finformation sharing, division of labor, and decision making. Sometimes this involves replacing traditional silos with customer-focused ones, but more often it entails transcending existing boundaries. JLL has experimented with both approaches. Cooperation. Customer-centric companies, such as Cisco Systems, develop metrics for customer satisfaction and incentives that reward customer-focused cooperation. Most also shake up the power structure so ...Starting at €8.20
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GE's Global Growth Experiment (Spanish Version)
Gulati, RanjayArticle HBS-S17052Knowledge and CommunicationDurante sus 16 años como CEO, Jeffrey Immelt diseñado un cambio de imagen radical de GE, el reposicionamiento de la empresa como una empresa industrial digitales mirando para definir el futuro de la Internet de las cosas. En el artículo principal de Spotlight, que comparte lo que aprendió sobre dirigir una organización gigante a través de cambios masivos. Hay varias clases: (1) Ser disciplinado. Este medio de anidación iniciativas dentro de la ot...Starting at €8.20
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BlackRock (C): Integrating BGI
Gulati, Ranjay; Rivkin, Jan W.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-717406-EStrategyThis (C) case is a supplement to HBS case no. 717-404 "BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems?"Starting at €5.74
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Cisco in 2012
Gulati, Ranjay; Wagonfeld, Alison Berkley; Silvestri, LucianaCase HBS-413069-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2012, Cisco was under intense pressure to show results: growth in its core business was decelerating and a number of exploratory ventures and acquisitions had not proven as profitable as expected. CEO John Chambers vowed to restore the company's health in a way that would support the agility and entrepreneurial mindset required to be successful in emerging sectors while continuing to achieve efficiency and profitability in Cisco's core busines...Starting at €8.20
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BlackRock (B): Acquire MLIM - Teaching Note
Gulati, Ranjay; Gilson, Stuart C.; Sesia, AldoTeaching Note HBS-719431-EStrategyTeaching note to case 717405 and 717485Starting at €0.00
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BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems
Gulati, Ranjay; Rivkin, Jan W.; McNamara, KellyCase HBS-717404-EStrategyAs the case opens in 1999, several key leaders at BlackRock, Inc.- then a relatively small asset management firm -- are trying to convince CEO Larry Fink and others that the firm should begin to offer Aladdin -- its proprietary analytics and trading platform -- to other asset managers. While some members of the senior team saw "selling our systems" as an opportunity, others likened it to "selling weapons to the enemy" or "giving away the crown je...Starting at €8.20