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A Case Study on Teach For Indias Expansion plans for 2012-2013

Background
In 2006, a group of young leaders working to reform education in India came together to seek an innovative solution to end educational inequity in the country. The group met with Wendy Kopp, CEO and Founder of Teach For America about adapting the TFA model to the Indian context. Shortly afterwards in 2007 Shaheen Mistri, the founder and then CEO of the Mumbai based education charity Akanksha Foundation, started Teach For India. Akanksha Foundations support has been vital to TFIs successful start-up. In June 2009, Teach For India placed its first cohort of 87 Fellows in low-income municipal and private schools in Pune and Mumbai, the program has grown dramatically in size, expanding to Delhi and has now placed its third cohort of over 250 Fellows in June 2011 taking the total number of TFI Fellows to almost 400. Teach For India currently employs 70 staff members across three cities.

however; the students in every school are of high need. Schools are eligible to work with TFI if their monthly fees for students are below 500 Rs. (US $11). The schools do not pay Fellows; instead TFI directly employs them and only fills existing teacher vacancies within the school system. TFI is working with the Municipal Commission of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) to reform and improve all of the government schools in Mumbai. This is a huge project and TFIs Fellows & Staff are involved in the projects strategy and implementation, Fellows provide pilot classrooms for the project and also training to teachers within the system.

TFI places Fellows in low income private and government English medium primary schools. Approximately 27% of Indias children are educated in private schools and in contrast to the West the majority of these schools serve low income communities and have very rudimentary infrastructure. Facilities and standards in schools vary significantly Reach

TFI pays all of the salaries of its Fellows and Staff. Presently the Government does not fund any of TFIs activities and therefore fundraising is crucial to the success and survival of the organisation. TFI is funded from a variety of foundations, trusts, individuals and events. Dear All, We welcome on board Rima Kohle! She has joined as Expansion Director in Mumbai. Page 2

Copyrights Reserved by NEEV11 & Teach for India Coming up straight from her: "Hi, Im Rima, born and brought up in Mumbai. Having completed my Masters in Management, I have always wanted to do something in the Education space but didnt know how to go about it. Fortunately, Teach For India has given me the opportunity and the platform to make a difference in my own little way. Simple, hard working and approachable, thats how I would like to describe myself. I strongly believe that One Day All Children will attain an Excellent Education which is also the vision of Teach For India. Im thrilled to join the team and look forward to an exciting journey here!"

Symbiosis Centre for Management & HRD entire family of Teach For India. Its been just 1 year since then. Though for Rima, it seemed she had spent a decade in this organization. Her thoughts got interrupted by the weekly expansion call reminder in her inbox. After the usual exchange of pleasantries in the call, Manisha Mohan, the expansion manager, who had been closely working with Rima for the last 6 months informs her about her sudden plans of leaving the country for certain personal reasons. Rima leads the design and execution of Teach For Indias growth and expansion strategy with the purpose to expand nationwide. She was completely stranded as she had decided to have a two day long step-back with Manisha to review on the strategies that worked for the last year and to revise their strategies for the coming year and also prepare for the upcoming board meeting. Under Rimas leadership, Teach For India expanded to Delhi in 2011 and will start their operations in Chennai and Hyderabad in 2012, with 75 Fellow each in both the new cities. For, the academic year, 2013, the Expansion team is considering expanding to one more new city. Research and due diligence needs to be completed and findings and recommendations need to be presented to the Board for their approval. Rima needs to consider the following for Board approval:

Certain things from the past, when crop up unannounced, hold the potential of leaving an impact. Thats what exactly happened when Rima bumped into a 1 year old mail sent by Teach For India HR, introducing her to the

Round 1 a. Why should Teach for India expand to one more city in 2013? b. What selection parameters should be considered by the expansion team for the selection of a new site?

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Rules and Regulations

Each team will comprise of 2 members from the same institute. A student cannot be part of more than one team. One team can submit only one entry. Only students of full time MBA can register. There is no restriction on the number of teams from an institute. The participants should submit a presentation of max 15 slides (excluding the cover and the thank you slide) in pdf format. Each entry should have a cover slide mentioning team name, participants, email ids and mobile nos. of the team member(s) and the name of the institute they belong to. The format for the same has been mentioned under. Last date of Submission of entries is 30th Nov11 before 23:59:59 Hrs The case deliverables have to be mailed at reach.neev11@gmail.com. Participants shall receive an acknowledgement within 24 hours of mailing their entries. All the files mailed should follow the format Reach_<Team Name>_<College Name> The subject of the mail should be of the format Reach _<Team Name>_<College Name>

The mail should contain the following details of the team members Sr. No 1 2 Participant Name E-Mail ID Phone No

The name of the participants, college name etc. should be mentioned only on the cover page and nowhere else in the entire presentation. Failure to adhere to this clause will result in automatic disqualification.

The shortlisted teams will be invited on campus for subsequent rounds.

For any queries regarding the case write to us on reach.neev11@gmail.com Or Contact Manoj Jaju +91-9765897297

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