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Clubb International: Revisiting the Marketing Strategy
Neena Sondhi; Rituparna BasuCase IVEY-9B18A009-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingClubb International Private Limited (Clubb) was a 26-year-old travel goods and accessories firm based in Kolkata, India. The owner believed in a complete ownership model. The firm had come a long way since its beginning and now had close to 200 product offerings. In March 2017, the owner’s son (the second-generation director of Clubb) felt it was time to scale up the business and acquire a leadership position in the market. Clubb had at its core ...Starting at €8.20
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Addons: Targeting Impulse
Neena Sondhi; Supriya M. Kalla; Umashankar VenkateshCase IVEY-9B14A069-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyAddons Retail Private Limited was incorporated in 2006 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The objective behind the venture was to sell lifestyle products and fashion accessories to cater to the impulsive buying urges of urban Indian men and women. The retail chain store sold a range of fashion accessories and products; competitors included both small mom-and-pop stores and kiosks as well as multinational chains. By summer 2014, the founder and direct...Starting at €8.20
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Rockland Hospitals: Innovating Health Care in India (A)
Neena SondhiCase IVEY-9B15A033-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyRockland Hospitals, a family-run entrepreneurial health care venture, had gone from a 90-bed capacity in 2004 to 808 beds in 2014. It had created an identity as an affordable, quality-driven health care provider in the National Capital Region of India. However, the managing director needed a growth plan that would achieve his goal of creating a medical corridor in the National Capital Region with a consortium of four super-specialty hospitals. Sh...Starting at €8.20
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Mother Dairy: Creating a National Footprint
Neena Sondhi; Supriya M. Kalla; Umashankar VenkateshCase IVEY-9B14A020-EMarketing, StrategyMother Dairy was created as a subsidiary of India’s National Dairy Development Board in 1974, with a mandate to leverage the capacities of small, village-based milk producers. After a very successful run as the major supplier of Delhi’s milk and dairy products, Mother Dairy is looking at an expanded national footprint as an essential strategy for growth. Milk is a commoditized product, so how can Mother Dairy create differentiation to move the co...Starting at €8.20
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LaundryWala: Scaling up an On-Demand Laundry Start-Up
Neena Sondhi; Chhavi MehtaCase IVEY-9B18A064-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingLaundryWala was an online, on-demand laundry service provider in the suburbs of Delhi, India. In 2018, three years after its inception, the firm had more than 30,000 individual and business customers. The 33-year-old owner had to make quick strategic deciStarting at €8.20
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Sirona Hygiene Private Limited: Branding in an Intimate Hygiene Space
Rituparna Basu; Neena SondhiCase IVEY-9B21A002-EMarketingSirona Hygiene Private Limited (Sirona Hygiene) started operations in 2015 with its launch of PeeBuddy—a portable urination device for women. For Sirona Hygiene, the first four years had been extremely satisfying, as the company was able to launch five unique products and 15 differentiated products across its three brands—PeeBuddy, Sirona, and BodyGuard. Each brand had its own unique value proposition and operated in a different product space. Th...Starting at €8.20
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NourishCo. Beverages Ltd.: Making New Inroads
Neena SondhiCase IVEY-9B17A062-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingNourishCo Beverages Ltd. (NourishCo) was founded as a fifty–fifty joint venture between one of the world’s best-known companies, PepsiCo India Holdings, and one of India’s most respected and trusted brands, Tata Global Beverages. The long-term corporate vision of NourishCo was to focus on the health and wellness needs of India. In May 2016, after a considerable amount of investment in product, packaging, manufacturing, and innovation, NourishCo h...Starting at €8.20
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Safe Water Network in India
Neena Sondhi; Sajjan Raj SinghviCase IVEY-9B13A047-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategySafe Water Network, a charity initiative focused on providing underserved populations with clean drinking water, established its first site in the village of Nizampally, India. This initiative was unique in a number of ways in its conception as well as its execution. Firstly, after vigorous assessment of the identified region, demand-driven solutions were customized to deal with the specific water-related issues of the region. Secondly, it was su...Starting at €8.20
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Intel: Exploring Market Opportunities in Water
Eccles, Robert G.; Edmondson, Amy C.; Serafeim, George; Farrell, Sarah E.Case HBS-412100-ESeeking to move beyond chip-making and offer sophisticated IT solutions in the form of software and hardware platforms, Intel Corporation, a leading semiconductor manufacturer in the United States, introduces a pilot project in India for testing a new platform that allows for monitoring and demand management along water distribution networks. The case describes, in detail, internal events that led to the creation of this pilot. It examines detail...Starting at €8.20
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Hassina Sherjan
Eccles, Robert G.; Serafeim, George; Eccles, PhilippaCase HBS-112029-EHassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions. The first was to educate young women through a non-profit organization she started called Aid Afghanistan for Education and a for-profit company, Boumi, that manufactures and distributes products for the home such as curtains, cushion covers, tea coz...Starting at €8.20