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: PROD0063Pages: 11Published on: 1, January, 1968
Abstract: This is an integrated case about a small business enterprise that manufactures plastic consumer items. It provides sufficient scope for improving the company's production operations as well as for developing the strategy that should be followed by this company. ... More
Reference No: PROD0286Pages: 20Published on: 14, December, 2005
Abstract: The Belur Plant of indal is facing a significant increase in power tariffs. Power tariffs have significant influence in shaping the competitive advantage of firms in the aluminum industry. The extent to which this increase in power tariff would affect the competitive position of indal needs to be examined. A ... More
Reference No: CIIE0027Pages: 17Published on: 12, October, 2021
Abstract: The business model adopted by Aggois model aimed at resolving the problem of farmer financing — particularly, the lack of receivables financing, which left them (farmers) with no option but to choose between high rates with delayed payments under MSP or prompt payments at lower rates in private transactions.
The product ... 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: 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: P&IR0198(A)TECPages: 5Published on: 26, June, 2006
Abstract: Human Resource Planning plays a strategic role in implementing the organizational objectives. This note describes the role of HR planning in an organization and its effect on other organizational processes. It also gives the HR planning choices that could be adopted under different business strategy situations. These strategies can be ... 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: BP0273Pages: 10Published on: 23, July, 2002
Abstract: This case describes the situation faced by Mr. Prakash Rastogi, who was appointed as the managing director of Clariant (India) Limited, the Indian arm of Clariant International Limited, a newly spun off unit of Sandoz International Limited. Sandoz announced the world wide demerger of its chemicals business and spun it ... More
Reference No: CIIE0037Pages: 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
Reference No: MAR0558(A)Pages: 18Published on: 30, September, 2025
Abstract: In 2021, Prabh Das, managing director and chief executive officer of HPCL–Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL), post a discussion with the Board, decided to foray into the market with polyethylene and newer grades of polyethylene. Was the decision of HMEL right, wondered Das. His concern stemmed from the fact that the ... More