Reference No: CMA0533Pages: 21Published on: 1, January, 1981
Abstract: A state marketing federation, taking advantage of the scheme of the National Cooperative Development Corporation, started a cold storage without a detailed feasibility report. The unit failed to get sufficient volume of business. Inefficient management made the cold storage unpopular with the users. some consultants were called in to suggest ... More
Reference No: IMG0007Pages: 20Published on: 13, March, 1995
Abstract: This case documents the forces driving the international strategy of Hindustan Lever Limited. It is intended to raise issues of sustainable competitive advantage, as well as issues of managing a portfolio of international and domestic businesses. ... More
Reference No: BP0060Pages: 36Published on: 1, January, 1974
Abstract: The history of DCMs growth and expansion is given to enable the students identify the strategy of this large Indian company which has diversified into various businesses under one setup. ... More
Reference No: BP0058Pages: 20Published on: 1, January, 1974
Abstract: Focuses on a pioneer garment-manufacturing companys failure to consolidate its position due to its inability to take advantage of an early entry into the industry. Failure to evolve a clear product-market strategy and to follow up on a national distribution system developed earlier; organizational problems of family enterprise management; and ... More
Reference No: CMA0780EXPages: 18Published on: 1, January, 2000
Abstract: This case focuses on the owner/entrepreneur's perspective of a small enterprise in a new market (dried flower exports). Currently, a large part of the business risk is borne by the importer. The supply and processing risk is borne by the entrepreneur. However, possibilities and long term strategies might require ... More
Reference No: CIIE0038Pages: 23Published on: 11, March, 2026
Abstract: HoneyVeda was founded in 2019 by Hardik Joshi, a business-analyst-turned-apiarist, to promote ethical beekeeping practices and produce and sell high-quality honey. To realise this vision, the startup partnered with farmers, farmer producer organisations (FPOs) and government agencies to supply beekeeping equipment, deliver training to novice beekeepers and produce honey from bee ... More
Reference No: MAR0372Pages: 21Published on: 1, January, 2006
Abstract: Mr. Rohit Swarup, Director of Xplora Design Skool (XDS) was reviewing the report and recommendations made by a student group on selection of towns where XDS could open centres to exploit the opportunity of significant interest in multimedia in the country in February 2004. He was particularly interested in the process ... More
Reference No: BP0268(B)Pages: 8Published on: 19, November, 2001
Abstract: This case describes the experience of Kanpur Confectioneries Private Limited (KCPL), a family managed company, in being a contract manufacturer for A-One Confectioneries Private Limited. The alliance had worked to the advantage of KCPL. It had prospered as a profitable contract manufacturer. It had used the surplus to diversify into ... More
Reference No: MAR0355Pages: 31Published on: 28, June, 2004
Abstract: The case details out issues on the challenges faced by the organization in a dynamic liberalized economy where auto manufacturers of the world are entering the Indian market. Challenges such as customer focus, process efficiency, and organization structure redesign are described. Four specific (not mutually exclusive) options are set forth ... More
Reference No: BP0445Pages: 13Published on: 23, June, 2020
Abstract: The case describes the predicament of the CEO of a born-global Indian enterprise in R&D over simultaneously balancing a trine of objectives: maximisation of shareholder value, maintaining a talent-led, process-driven ecosystem for team performance, and customer acquisition and customer satisfaction in contracted research and custom synthesis through knowledge-intensive business ... More
Reference No: CISG0044Pages: 22Published on: 9, October, 1997
Abstract: This case describes how computerization helped in solving the problems and complexities of the manual systems of the Times of India organization. It discusses a major effort by the centralized IT department to develop and implement an application portfolio to support the new strategic thrust. How this supported the advertisement ... More
Reference No: BP0044Pages: 20Published on: 1, January, 1972
Abstract: Describes the pressures and problems faced by a man with a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from abroad, and consulting experience in India, when he decides to get involved in his family business. Dr C.A. Narayanan takes charge of Kannagi Mills, a unit of the Alagappa Group headed by his ... More
Reference No: MAR0325(A)Pages: 21Published on: 27, September, 1999
Abstract: RPG Enterprises, one of the top five business houses of India, decided in 1996 to enter organized food retailing by opening a chain of supermarket grocery stores under the name "FoodWorld" in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, the three major cities in south India. This case describes the background and rationale of ... More
Reference No: CIIE0032(B)Pages: 28Published on: 23, September, 2025
Abstract: Rajat Goel and Dr Ajay Sharma had set up the Eye-Q chain of eye care hospitals in the year 2007. Despite best efforts, their initial assumptions about scaling a healthcare business proved overly optimistic. The reality of high establishment costs, resistance from doctors and low patient trust in smaller cities forced ... More
