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Jean Wee

Pahal Financial Services, founded in 2011 by Kartik Mehta and Purvi Bhavsar, is a microfinance institution (MFI) dedicated to serving low-income households across India. Having weathered industry crises, demonetization and the COVID-19 pandemic, Pahal has grown into a top-15 player with 1.2 million customers.

Published 10 Oct 2025

Reference 6973

Topic Strategy

Industry Financial Services

Region Asia

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FWD is a young home-grown entrant in the Asian insurance market, which is dominated by giants such as AIA, Manulife, Prudential and AXA. Its mission is to change the way people feel about insurance by leveraging technology to create relevant products, make the buying process more efficient, customer- and distributor-friendly, and then scale up the business.

Published 14 May 2025

Reference 6928

Topic Strategy

Industry Insurance

Region Asia

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FWD is a young home-grown entrant in the Asian insurance market, which is dominated by giants such as AIA, Manulife, Prudential and AXA. Its mission is to change the way people feel about insurance by leveraging technology to create relevant products, make the buying process more efficient, customer- and distributor-friendly, and then scale up the business.

Published 14 May 2025

Reference 6928

Topic Strategy

Industry Insurance

Region Asia

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FWD is a young home-grown entrant in the Asian insurance market, which is dominated by giants such as AIA, Manulife, Prudential and AXA. Its mission is to change the way people feel about insurance by leveraging technology to create relevant products, make the buying process more efficient, customer- and distributor-friendly, and then scale up the business.

Published 14 May 2025

Reference 6928

Topic Strategy

Industry Insurance

Region Asia

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Between 2002 and 2014, Sankara Eye Foundation India expanded rapidly, establishing nine community hospitals to provide free eye care across eight states in southern, western, and northern India. Its operating model ensured that 80% of its patients received free care, subsidized by the remaining 20% who paid for services.

Published 14 Apr 2025

Reference 6863

Topic Strategy

Industry Hospital & Health Care

Region Asia

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Headquartered in Japan, NEC Corporation is a leader in IT and network technologies with more than 125 years of history. This three-part case study focuses on one of its country affiliates, NEC-India, which had been operating for over 70 years and had a unique role in NEC’s business.

Published 26 Aug 2024

Reference 6859

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Computer Networking Information Technology and Services

Region Asia

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Headquartered in Japan, NEC Corporation is a leader in IT and network technologies with more than 125 years of history. This three-part case study focuses on one of its country affiliates, NEC-India, which had been operating for over 70 years and had a unique role in NEC’s business.

Published 26 Aug 2024

Reference 6859

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Computer Networking Information Technology and Services

Region Asia

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Headquartered in Japan, NEC Corporation is a leader in IT and network technologies with more than 125 years of history. This three-part case study focuses on one of its country affiliates, NEC-India, which had been operating for over 70 years and had a unique role in NEC’s business.

Headquartered in Japan, NEC Corporation is a leader in IT and network technologies with more than 125 years of history. This three-part case study focuses on one of its country affiliates, NEC-India, which had been operating for over 70 years and had a unique role in NEC’s business.

This case, described as the last big merger in the global beer industry, involves a valuation of the merged company using a basic discounted cash flow (DCF) methodology. Students are asked to calculate and compare the value of the merged entity with the standalone valuations of the respective companies to see if there is indeed value in merging.

Published 11 Mar 2024

Reference 6704

Topic Economics & Finance

Industry Consumer Goods Food and Beverages Production

Region Global

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Headquartered in Japan, NEC Corporation is a leader in IT and network technologies with more than 125 years of history. This three-part case study focuses on one of its country affiliates, NEC-India, which had been operating for over 70 years and had a unique role in NEC’s business.

Published 26 Aug 2024

Reference 6859

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Computer Networking Information Technology and Services

Region Asia

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When staff as well as investors participate in a profitable exit by a global private equity firm, the industry pays attention. KKR’s sale of CHI, a garage door manufacturer, for a 9.8X multiple of invested capital (MOIC) made headlines in early 2022 as one of KKR’s highest returns since the 1980s and for CHI’s hourly workers and truck drivers for whom the pay-out would be life changing.

Published 08 Mar 2023

Reference 6802

Topic Responsibility

Industry Private Equity

Region North America

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This case explores the organizational practices of GitLab, an “all remote” company with more than 1,000 employees located in 59 countries. GitLab solves the challenges of employees working in an online-only environment by relying extensively on asynchronous modes of coordination.

Published 12 Aug 2020

Reference 6579

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Computer Software

Region Global

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For over 60 years, Bluebell, a major actor in the luxury B2B ecosystem, has been helping Western luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Davidoff, Moschino, Manolo Blahnik or Jimmy Choo enter key Asian markets.

Published 29 Oct 2018

Reference 6443

Topic Marketing

Industry Wholesale Luxury Goods and Jewelry

Region Asia

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In 2010, ACTIS embarked on an ambitious project to build a pan-Middle East and Africa (MEA) payments platform. It had purchased Mediterranean Smart Cards Company (MSCC), a bankcard issuer with operations across Africa, and had identified a follow-on target, Visa Jordan Card Services (VJCS) as part of its buy-and-build strategy, and another potential acquisition in South Africa.

Published 29 Jan 2018

Reference 6363

Topic Strategy

Industry Private Equity

Region Middle-East

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With the publication of CK Prahalad’s “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” (2005), the poor were suddenly seen as a potential market in the eyes of multinational corporations (MNCs). Although poor, the BOP is a large and growing market.

Published 27 Oct 2014

Reference 6088

Topic Strategy

Industry Pharmaceuticals

Region Asia

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