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How Emerging Giants Are Rewriting the Rules of M&A
Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0905K-EStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. While Western companies struggle with mergers and acquisitions, emerging giants like Indian aluminum producer Hindalco are using M&A as their main globalization strategy. That's partly because developing economies grew at near double-digit rates in the past 15 year...Starting at €8.20
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How Emerging Giants Are Rewriting the Rules of M&A (Spanish version)
Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0905KStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. While Western companies struggle with mergers and acquisitions, emerging giants like Indian aluminum producer Hindalco are using M&A as their main globalization strategy. That's partly because developing economies grew at near double-digit rates in the past 15 year...Starting at €8.20
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Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) India Programme - Teaching Note
Farmer M.; Mair, JohannaTeaching Note DGT-32-EStrategyNote prepared as an aid to instructors in the classroom use of case DG-1447-E Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) India Programme.Starting at €0.00
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Project Impact: The Affordable Hearing Aid Project
Cordes E.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1472-EStrategyThis case introduces David Green, a social entrepreneur with the mission of making advanced medical technology affordable and available to those in the third world. It describes the growth and success of projects to develop, manufacture and distribute low-cost hearing aids and other basic medical technology in India, and presents a direct contrast to the traditional maximum profit model of the medical industry. After achieving success with Aurola...Starting at €8.20
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Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) India Programme: Creating value through corporate community involvement
Farmer M.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1447-EStrategyThis case describes the evolution of a community affairs initiative called the India Programme, run by the Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) Community Trust. ZFS (UKISA) is UK-based and specialises in general insurance and life assurance. It is part of the Zurich Financial Services group of companies, headquartered in Switzerland, and was formed in 2000 after the completion of the merger between Zurich Insurance of Switzerland and the UK-based in...Starting at €8.20
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The Freeplay Energy Group and Foundation (A)
Coles E.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1467-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Freeplay Energy Group was founded in 1995 to produce wind up radios. The company produced its first radios in 1996. It took its social responsibilities seriously from the beginning and in 1998 founded the Freeplay Foundation to enable the sustained delivery of radio information and education to the most vulnerable populations via self-powered radios. The company has transformed itself from a vertically integrated organization with internal ...Starting at €8.20
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A Puma vs. Giants: The rise of David
Fruechtnicht M.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1519-EStrategyAt the beginning of 2007 - for the first time in his 13 years at the helm of Puma - Jochen Zeitz was able to take a deep breath, reflect on the company's successful turnaround and, most importantly, contemplate the way ahead. After reinventing itself, creating a new market segment and demonstrating that the company could compete with its bigger brother Adidas, Puma was at a crossroads. It had become very profitable in the past decade and the stoc...Starting at €8.20
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Puma contra los gigantes: El ascenso de David
Fruechtnicht M.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1519StrategyA principios de 2007, por primera vez en los 13 años que llevaba al mando de Puma, Jochen Zeitz decidió respirar hondo y reflexionar sobre el giro radical hacia el éxito que había dado la compañía y, lo que es más importante: contemplar el camino que tenía por delante. Después de reinventarse, crear un nuevo segmento de mercado y demostrar que la compañía podía competir con su hermana mayor, Adidas, Puma se hallaba en una encrucijada. En la últim...Starting at €8.20
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Mahindra & Mahindra: Leveraging India's Size for Global Scale in Tractors--A Profile of One of India's Pioneering Multinationals
Kumar, Nirmalya; Mohapatra, Pradipta K.; Chandrasekhar, Suj , PhD.Book Chapter HBS-6740BC-EMahindra & Mahindra started in 1945 at the dawn of Indian independence and has since transformed from a steel trader, to an assembler of Jeeps from kits imported from the U.S., to a multifaceted business with a global presence in eight key sectors and global revenue in 2008 of $6.7 billion. This chapter focuses on M&M's two largest businesses--automotive and farm equipment, tracing the company's sometimes rocky journey to becoming a global powerh...Starting at €8.20
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Sekem: Liberating a Vision, an Artistic Approach to Entrepreneurship - Teaching Note
Seelos, Christian; Mair, JohannaTeaching Note DGT-34-EStrategyNote prepared as an aid to instructors in the classroom use of case DG-1466-E The Sekem Initiative.Starting at €0.00