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Case Analysis: Lead From The Front

BW Online Bureau

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When we decide on an action, we should blank out the name of the employee by K. Shankar

Case Analysis: Prey Or Produce?

Kaushik Gopal

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During a crisis, it is important for the leaders to send clear messages to all, else the atmosphere will be vitiated

Case Analysis: Built To Last

Viju Parameshwar

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Leadership must take decisions that try to achieve fairness and not be seen to take sides

Case Analysis: Angry Employee

Viju Parameshwar

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The writer has had a 40-year corporate career running different businesses throughout this period. He was a CEO of global companies for 18 years

Case Analysis: Pretend Sleep

Matangi Gowrishankar

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Leadership is a 24x7 job – Kayplas had better shape up or return to stores

“What, at root, is justice? When I speak to children about the Preamble to our Constitution, I explain justice as ‘being fair’. But how can one be fair if the laws are not adequate and the interpreters of the law not sensitive? ...Over the years,women have been treated as second-class citizens despite constituting half the human race. They are particularly vulnerable because of the patriarchal mindset that affects every aspect of their lives...” — Justice Leila Seth in author's note in her book Talking of Justice: People’s Rights in Modern India

Case Study: Idea To Destiny Via Habit

Meera Seth

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” — Aristotle

Case Analysis: Inclusive Change

Jahnvi Andharia

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Social change is said to be the most constant feature of all human societies. There are several ways in which social change actually comes about but the one that is immediately relevant is the way in which technological developments affects social change

Case Analysis: Shape Your Own Destiny

K. Srinivas

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Let us now look at some of the building blocks that built the telecom industry into such a life changing phenomenon in the rural areas and see parallels on what could be done in the financial space

Case Analysis: One-Stop Solution

Rangan Varadan

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Demonetisation is considered necessary in some economies to create change and development. Kenneth Rogoff, professor of Economics at Harvard University says that despite some issues in planning, there will be large positive effects in the long-run

Case Study: Where Has All The Money Gone?

Meera Seth

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“In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income” — Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder Grameen Bank

Case Analysis: Create The ‘Aah!’ Experience

Madan Sabnavis

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The general response to demonetisation, which is almost always an elitist one, is that we should look at the move as being ‘transformational’. Almost everybody has access to a Jan Dhan account and the proliferation of e-wallets on mobile phones actually addresses the question of whether at all we need to hold cash

Case Analysis: Fix The System

Mohit Charnalia

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Money in the bank has a psychological effect. We are familiar with the sense of well being that comes from a healthy bank balance. Will we have that same sense if we are not certain of accessing our money whenever we want to?

Case Analysis: A Bolt From The Blue

Gopal Naik

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Poor quality education facility and support systems fail to provide the experience that help in acquiring knowledge, skills and attitudes that are conducive to social participation; hence rural youth are ill-prepared