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The 7 Questions to Ask (Spanish version)
Simons, Robert L.Artículo HBS-R1011GDirección estratégicaAn economic downturn can quickly expose the shortcomings of your business strategy. But can you identify its weak points in good times as well? And can you focus on those weak points that really matter? Drawing on some 25 years of research, Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons identifies seven questions all executives should ask in order to ensure their strategies' success. Have you identified your primary customer? Decided whether sha...Desde 8,20 €
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A Simple Free Cash Flow Valuation Model
Sahlman, William A.Caso HBS-814027-EFinanzasExplores some of the issues involved in valuing cash flow streams. A simple model is presented that reveals the effect on value of changing assumptions about the appropriate discount rate, the level of profitability, the growth rate of sales, the asset intensity ratio, and the leverage ratio. Helps students address some of the following issues: 1) What is the definition of cash flow? 2) What effects do changes in the discount rate have on valuati...Desde 8,20 €
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Leader Healthcare: Deciding on a Growth Strategy
Sonal Singh; Meeta DasguptaCaso IVEY-9B17M006-EDirección estratégica, Iniciativa emprendedoraLeader Healthcare India (LHC) was a medical devices importer firm that dealt primarily in respiratory and anesthetic devices. The company imported medical devices from U.S. manufacturers and, for the most part, performed its own marketing, sales, and service activities. In 2016, the director of LHC was concerned about LHC’s multiple failed efforts at market expansion. The company wanted to grow, but its attempts had been unsuccessful. Lack of hig...Desde 8,20 €
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Dividend Policy at SRF Limited: Buyback of Shares
Kulbir Singh; David J. Sharp; S Ramanna VishwanathCaso IVEY-9B17N012-EFinanzasIn April 2012, a chartered accountant and financial analyst for the manufacturing firm SRF Limited was asked by her chief financial officer to analyze the company’s cash dividend and share repurchase policy and provide recommendations for the next 12 to 24 months. SRF Limited was a ?38 billion multi-business entity. Having completed its third round of share buyback at ?380 per share, SRF Limited paid an interim and consistent dividend of ?7 per s...Desde 8,20 €
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Husk Power: Scaling the Venture
Roth, Benjamin N.; Lassiter, Joseph B.; Rigol, NataliaCaso HBS-819069-EIniciativa emprendedoraIn January 2018, Husk Power had just raised $20 million to scale operations for a second time. From 2007 through 2013, Husk built 80 biomass waste (primarily rice husk from rice mills) plants that provided electricity to 250,000 villagers and shop owners spread across 350 villages in India and Africa.
By 2015, Husk underwent a major pivot. Rather than a rural electrification vision aimed at providing power to rural households through biomass...Desde 8,20 €
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Learning from the India Way: Redefining Business Leadership
Cappelli, Peter; Singh, Harbir; Singh, Jitendra V.; Useem, MichaelCapítulo de Libro HBS-5822BC-EThe roaring success of Indian business in the last two decades points the world toward a different enterprise model than the one widely practiced in the U.S., with its emphasis on financial goals and shareholder value. Indeed, the global economic crisis of 2008-2009-widely viewed as being triggered by American excesses-has rekindled the debate about the proper role of personal gain and shareholder value in business affairs. In this chapter, autho...Desde 8,20 €
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Lumière: Supporting a Virtual Workspace on the Cloud
Deepa Kajal Ray; Lakshminaryana Seshadri SubramanianCaso IVEY-9B16E005-EDirección estratégica, Iniciativa emprendedora, Tecnologías de la informaciónIn early 2015, the chief information officer at Lumière Business Solutions (Lumière) was reflecting on the impact of technology on the company’s business performance. Lumière had been using cloud technology to provide clients and employees 24/7 access to project progress and documentation. Clients appreciated the fact that, despite being a small firm, Lumière was as competitive and quick to respond as any other big market-research company. What w...Desde 8,20 €
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Building Brand Infosys
Deshpande, Rohit; Muthuram, VidhyaCaso HBS-513003-EMarketingInfosys Limited was India's second largest exporter of IT services with annual revenues of $7 billion and a market capitalization of nearly $26 billion in 2012. The company, headquartered in Bangalore, India, had built its reputation as the Indian IT bellwether whose credo was to "under-promise and over-deliver." Throughout its 31-year history, Infosys and its iconic co-founder, N.R. Narayana Murthy, were admired and respected for delivering exce...Desde 8,20 €
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Flipkart: Grappling with Product Returns
Sanjeev Prashar; Mukesh Kumar; Amit Kumar MukulCaso IVEY-9B18A045-EIniciativa emprendedora, MarketingIn June 2016, Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart Private Limited (Flipkart) faced a common issue among online retailers: the firm needed to optimize its product return rates to reduce losses caused by returns. Accordingly, Flipkart changed its return policy, including raising the commission fees charged to sellers by an average of 5 per cent. Many sellers resented the policy change, and more than 1,800 led an online protest against Flipkart, which ...Desde 8,20 €
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Vineet Nayar and Sampark Foundation: Frugal Innovation at Scale (A) (Abridged)
Hill, Linda A.; Tedards, EmilyCaso HBS-421021-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasIn 2005, Vineet Nayar, the former CEO and Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies, and his wife, Anupama Nayar, committed $100 million of their personal wealth to found Sampark Foundation-a grant-making philanthropy with a mission to transform learning outcomes for 20 million children in rural government schools by 2025. By 2013, it was clear that Sampark was never going to reach 20 million children by writing grants. Vineet stepped out of the corporat...Desde 8,20 €