It is January 2014 and Rahul Sharma, cofounder of the Micromax Informatics (Micromax), the biggest Indian mobile handset business, is preparing for an emergency conference call with his private equity investors. Investors in response, had convinced Sharma and his cofounders to hire many senior professionals, and their first external CEO, Deepak Mehrotra.
With the creators working alongside the new "professionals," frequent overlaps and occasionally run-ins happened. Now, their smartphone division's head along with both Mehrotra had stepped down. Their options: Was there a need for reconsideration of their involvement in the business they created are evaluated by Sharma? Or was there where both professionals and creators could coexist in the company?
PUBLICATION DATE: November 20, 2014 PRODUCT #: 415034-PDF-ENG
Micromax Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company Case Study Solution
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