Reference No: QM0246TECPages: 43Published on: 16, September, 2005
Abstract: This note addresses sampling concepts introduced in a formulaic manner in managerial statistics textbooks like Anderson et. al. [ASW02] or Levin et. al. [LR97] that are used in Quantitative Methods III course. Students with quantitative backgrounds like engineers are unsatisfied with this approach and ask for further information that cannot ... More
Reference No: HRM0240Pages: 11Published on: 5, February, 2019
Abstract: The case is based on heated e-mail conversations connected to the delivery of clean bottled water in the campus of a reputed research institute in southern India. The exchange between Tara Sharma (Programme Manager) and Shreejith Nair (Group Head- Engineering Service and Estate) relate to the quality of services provided. ... More
Reference No: STR0490Pages: 10Published on: 5, August, 2025
Abstract: Byju Raveendran started the ed-tech company Byju’s in 2011. The company attracted investors from both India and abroad. However, problems began when the company defaulted in 2021. In October 2024, the Supreme Court of India ordered that the company continue with insolvency proceedings. By the end of 2024, the company was in serious ... More
Reference No: CMA0667Pages: 6Published on: 1, January, 1988
Abstract: Six sets of situations have been reproduced from "The Rural University: Experiment in Educational Innovation" to identify four types of risks, viz. technical, economic, social, and environmental. The case analysis suggests that there could be at least three propositions about "risk and rural entrepreneurship." These are: 1) In any set of ... More
Reference No: BP0425Pages: 21Published on: 3, January, 2019
Abstract: This case study focuses on an educational institution and how it should strategise its online education programme. The case presents an opportunity to analyse the management education sector in India along with the future trends and aspirations of contemporary learners (students). The study points out the key decision variables and ... More
Reference No: CMA0666Pages: 17Published on: 1, January, 1988
Abstract: The case discusses some aspects of an "experiment" in educational innovation and rural development in a backward block-Jawaja in Ajmer district of Rajasthan. The experiment is still continuing; hence the observations presented are tentative, subject to such revisions as further experience may suggest. The case describes the formation of two ... More
Reference No: RJMC0017Pages: 7Published on: 27, May, 2011
Abstract: Dr. Narendran, Director, Indian Medicine (Siddha) College, has been requested by the Head of the College's Pharmacology Department to ensure intellectual protection for, and commercialisation of, a formulation that he had developed for coronary atherosclerosis. Such a request has been made for the first time in the College, and the ... More
Reference No: QM0249TECPages: 7Published on: 28, November, 2005
Abstract: In this technical note we discuss some useful techniques for gathering sensitive data. We discuss three methods of Randomized response surveys warner's methods, unrelated questions method and a method for gathering sertives quantitative data. All there methods has been extensively field tested and has been found to be of great ... More
Reference No: BP0351Pages: 10Published on: 1, October, 2013
Abstract: This case provides an opportunity to identify and discuss issues in sustenance of an incumbent's strategy in the changing environment. The context is the practice of Nadi Nidan (pulse diagnosis) and treatment of disorders based on this according to Ayurveda, the ancient system of Indian medicine. It describes the functioning ... More
Reference No: BP0163TECPages: 4Published on: 1, January, 1980
Abstract: This note gives the authors' observations, based on their experience of simulated job interviews of forty IIMA students of the Managerial Oral Communication course in the academic year 1979-80. It provides information on how the interviews were structured, the theme of the interviews, preparation made by the students for the ... More
Reference No: RJMC0023Pages: 5Published on: 18, June, 2012
Abstract: The State Innovation & Research Foundation, Solapur (SIRF) was a voluntary network of 300 government primary school teachers, established in 2006 as a platform for innovative teachers. In 2012, after organizing a successful conference, the Secretary felt that the time had come to expand and scale up operations. However, funding was a major constraint, ... More
Reference No: COMM0017EXPages: 4Published on: 29, March, 2017
Abstract: The HRD Department at Apogee Ltd had launched a newsletter Apogee Connections in an electronic format about 180 months back. Although meant to be a bimonthly that would initially begin as a quarterly publication, it has so fact had only three issues. The newsletter seems to have not gained much interes ... More
Reference No: RJMC0020Pages: 15Published on: 21, May, 2012
Abstract: Dr. Ala Narayana, Director, National Institute of Indian Medical Heritage, Hyderabad (NIIMH), in late 2011, is considering a review of the progress of the institute since its foundation in 1956, in order to develop a strategy and an action plan for the future. The need for this planning was felt since NIIMH ... More
