Nitin Paranjpe and Hindustan Unilever: Responsible Business

This case-let explores the business practices of Hindustan Unilever (HUL) under the leadership of Nitin Paranjpe, the current Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Unilever, and for a period of time, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its Indian business HUL. The case-let discusses his implementation of Unilever’s global sustainability agenda within HUL, a significant shift at the time. It is intended to showcase the management challenges involved in embedding a sustainability agenda into a multinational corporation, and the leadership and management capacities which helped to enable it.