• MITTI Social Initiatives Foundation: Scaling New Heights

    In 2017, a woman with no background in business management or entrepreneurship, started a new venture called MITTI Social Initiatives Foundation in Bengaluru (also known as Bangalore), India. The nonprofit organization was driven by the passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion of its founder, who had a determination to overcome challenges and a drive to learn. The organization was run by a team of mainly women from diverse backgrounds and was managed by employees who were largely from lower socio-economic strata and had physical disabilities, intellectual disabilities, or mental health conditions. Despite its young age, the organization was able to reorient its strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic to launch several new business verticals. In fact, after the pandemic, the company accelerated its organizational momentum and opened eight new cafes in 2022 and 12 more in 2023. The founder, however, had to think and act strategically to increase the venture’s impact on livelihood and inclusion by achieving growth, without diluting the organization’s informal and caring culture.
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  • Tesla in 2023: Crafting a Strategy for the Indian Market

    In July 2023, Tesla, Inc. (Tesla), a global leader in the manufacture and sales of electric vehicles, needed to formulate its entry strategy in India. Tesla’s chief executive officer, Elon Musk, had met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to the United States in June 2023 and expressed optimism about India as a market for Tesla. This development was in sharp contrast to the events of just over a year earlier, when Musk and Tesla had expressed disappointment with the Indian government’s policy of heavily taxing imports of fully assembled Tesla cars and had seemingly abandoned their plans to enter India, at least in the short term. Despite the thaw in the relationship with the Indian government, Tesla’s top management needed to get a number of critical decisions right if the company’s entry into the Indian market was to be successful.
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