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ArcelorMittal: Consolidating the Globally Fragmented Steel Industry--A Profile of One of India's Pioneering Multinationals
Kumar, Nirmalya; Mohapatra, Pradipta K.; Chandrasekhar, Suj , PhD.Book Chapter HBS-6735BC-EArcelorMittal is a Fortune 500 company with corporate headquarters in Luxembourg. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as well as several European exchanges--but not on the Mumbai stock exchange. The company established its position as the largest steel company in the world by leveraging low-cost production operations in emerging markets throughout the globe, and thrived for decades without establishing operations of any kind in Ind...Starting at €8.20
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Bharat Forge: Bringing Technology and Speed to the World Forging Market--A Profile of One of India's Pioneering Multinationals
Kumar, Nirmalya; Mohapatra, Pradipta K.; Chandrasekhar, Suj , PhD.Book Chapter HBS-6737BC-EIn the past decade, manufacturers in Eastern Europe, China, and Southeast Asia have established reputations for quality, reliability, and cost efficiency. But manufacturing-led, export-driven growth bypassed India...until now. Whereas Indian manufacturing has generally been associated with belching machines, clanking equipment, flooded mud roads, and unreliable power supplies, a few companies are emerging as contenders for domination of global ma...Starting at €8.20
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Hindalco: Globalizing Through a Transformational Merger--A Profile of One of India's Pioneering Multinationals
Kumar, Nirmalya; Mohapatra, Pradipta K.; Chandrasekhar, Suj , PhD.Book Chapter HBS-6739BC-EThe story behind Hindalco's $6 billion acquisition of Novelis is of particular interest because of the firm's boldness. When Hindalco made the bid in 2007, Novelis represented the largest Indian investment in North America and the second-largest overseas investment by an Indian company, behind Tata's purchase of Corus just two weeks earlier. Would this bold move prove an effective way for Hindalco to go global and ensure long-term profitability b...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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Challenges for Indian Multinationals--The Global Future
Kumar, Nirmalya; Mohapatra, Pradipta K.; Chandrasekhar, Suj , PhD.Book Chapter HBS-6745BC-EIndian companies have transformed very quickly from small, tentative domestic players to competitive global powerhouses. Despite the bullish sentiment in India and the high level of confidence among Indian executives in their ability to manage multinational corporations, we must not forget that the "Indian multinational" is still in an embryonic stage. There is no reason to expect that the process of building the Indian global powerhouses, capabl...Starting at €8.20
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Long Wang Sha Tan Ku Company
Peter C. Bell; Anna Galica; Vincent Fung; Lothair Ling; Pik-Kei Osburga ChanCase IVEY-9B09E008-ECorporate Governance, StrategyThe chief operation officer (COO) of Long Wang Sha Tan Ku Company, a boardshorts manufacturer based in Shanghai, China, was expected to present a plan to improve the company's profitability through adjustments to the company's operations. There were at least three possible paths to increase profitability. First, reviewing how production was scheduled between the company's two manufacturing facilities. Second, since the company operated at capacit...Starting at €8.20
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DD Traders: Sourcing for DEMDACO
Peter C. Bell; Carolyn Glasow; Julia HoCase IVEY-9B11E035-ECorporate Governance, StrategyDD Traders was the Asian branch of DEMDACO, a privately held company that wholesaled unique gift products that were marketed and distributed to the specialty retail channel in the United States and some international markets. Carolyn Glasow recognized an opportunity to leverage a quantitative approach to sourcing future allocations across vendors that would also improve the short-term demand transparency that was provided to the company’s key bus...Starting at €8.20
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Intel Asia-Pacific: The Catch & Win Campaign
Peter C. Bell; John Lyons; Peter Dingle; Ash SupersadCase IVEY-9B13E023-ECorporate Governance, StrategyThe head of Data Marketing Analytics and Mobile for Intel Asia-Pacific was reviewing the proposed media plan for the Catch & Win 2.0 campaign. The media purchase needed to be finalized quickly in order to be included in the current quarter’s budget, but he could not help feeling that the proposed spend across the markets and advertising types could be used more effectively. He thought that the key was to use the company’s own experience and data ...Starting at €8.20
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The Emergence of India's Global Powerhouses: Introduction
Kumar, Nirmalya; Mohapatra, Pradipta K.; Chandrasekhar, Suj , PhD.Book Chapter HBS-6729BC-ELike their German, Japanese, and Korean predecessors, Indian companies that go global will transform the world of business. Perhaps even more so, because Indian companies can leverage a domestic population ten to twenty times larger than in any of those countries for profits and revenues to support their globalization. Who are these Indian global powerhouses? How do they compete? What should companies outside India know about them? This chapter p...Starting at €8.20
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Infosys: Born Global to Exploit the Skilled Workforce Advantage--A Profile of One of India's Pioneering Multinationals
Kumar, Nirmalya; Mohapatra, Pradipta K.; Chandrasekhar, Suj , PhD.Book Chapter HBS-6736BC-EThe Indian outsourcing industry has helped put India on the global corporate map. Of the many famous Indian IT companies like Infosys, TCS, and Wipro, Infosys served as the outsourcing blueprint for global technology companies as well as Indian companies in other sectors. This chapter begins with its story and then examines the rest of the Indian IT industry and its evolution. This chapter is excerpted from "India's Global Powerhouses: How They A...Starting at €8.20