Ace Micromatic Group (AMG) was established in 1979 and is a well-known machine tools (MT) manufacturer in India. Under the leadership of Shrinivas Shirgurkar, Managing Director, the firm has been ambitiously seeking new opportunities. It is a ""niche entrepreneur"" company that focuses on MT and computerized numerical control (CNC) machines. MMT China was founded in 2007 as AMG''s wholly owned foreign enterprise (WOFE). .....more

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Despite substantial regulatory reform following the 2008 financial crisis, financial firms are still suffering from fraud and other forms of ethical misconduct. As a result, they have collectively paid out more than $400 billion in fines over the past 12 years. A 2019 Harvard Business School study found that among a sample of Fortune 500 companies, more than two instances of internally substantiated misconduct occur each week, on average. It''s .....more

The triple fit canvas is a sales framework designed to facilitate collaborative value creation between sellers and buyers. Inspired by the Blue Ocean Strategy canvas developed by Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne and the business model canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, the triple fit canvas is both a diagnostic and an action framework. It extends a limited, product-centric view to a broader, customer-centric perspective. It shifts .....more

Anthem Inc. (www.anthem.com) was a leading health care insurance provider and the largest insurer in the Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) network. In October 2017, it approved the establishment of captive subsidiaries or global capability centers (GCCs), called "Legato," in India and the Philippines. The first captive was established in India. From January 2018 to June 2021, the two Legato entities had ramped up their head count to over 15,000 .....more

In 2017, Sahrudaya Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. (SHPL), a successful chain of corporate hospitals based out of Hyderabad, India, approached private equity (PE) firm Samara Capital for a capital infusion. After conducting a thorough due diligence and evaluation of the company, Samara Capital brought its major limited partner (LP) Medicover, a European multinational healthcare and diagnostics company, into the decision-making process. In a surprise turn of .....more

Spreadsheet supplement for case ISB311.

In December 2021, more than a decade after its founding, Goldman Sachs''s 10,000 Small Businesses program was still going strong - and the firm now needed to evaluate potential program modifications to reach a wider group of small business owners. Launched in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, 10,000 Small Businesses provided business education, a wide network, and access to capital to U.S. small business owners through more than .....more