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Mercedes-Benz India
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Shankar Venkatagiri; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B11E009-EInformation Technologies, StrategyIn December 2007, the management of Mercedes-Benz India (MBI), a fully owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, the 12th-largest automobile manufacturer in the world, has decided to relocate to a new facility near Pune in western India. In overseeing the installation of information technology (IT) infrastructure at the new premises, the company’s chief information officer (CIO) must deal with some managerial choices pertaining to IT architecture, IT tools...Starting at €8.20
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Turbulent Times for TikTok’s Platform Strategy
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Vivian ZhangCase IVEY-W24908-EInformation Technologies, StrategyAt the beginning of 2021, TikTok was facing multiple market threats and had to decide what strategies to implement to manage them. TikTok was the world’s largest short-video platform, with users in 155 countries. But along with great success in entering nStarting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever reinventa la rueda (C)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1426StrategyEl caso C finaliza la serie proporcionando información sobre cómo Unilever se introdujo en los mercados BOP en Indonesia y Brasil, y amplía el tema más allá para responder a la pregunta: ¿Cómo puede beneficiarse Unilever de las lecciones aprendidas en HLL?¿Ha encontrado Hindustan Lever una nueva estrategia para ganar amplios mercados globales en su esfuerzo por satisfacer las necesidades cotidianas de la gente corriente en todo el mundo? ¿O simpl...Starting at €5.74
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A Foot In the Door: Hindustan Lever Breaks Into the Mass Market
Ellison B.; Moller D.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1390-EStrategyHindustan Lever (HLL), a subsidiary of Unilever and undisputed leader in the Fast Moving Consumer Products segment in India, is caught out by the success of a local firm, Nirma, in selling to the bottom of the social pyramid. Having ignored Nirma's activities for several years in the belief that Nirma was targeting a segment that HLL was not interested in, HLL decides to enter the market at the bottom of the social pyramid by developing a totally...Starting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever reinventa la rueda (A)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1424StrategyEsta serie de casos trata de la experiencia pionera de Unilever en la llamada "base de la pirámide" (BDP). La BDP consiste en cerca de 4.000 millones de personas que viven en la pobreza y están excuidas de la economía de mercado. La BDP es un nuevo concepto de dirección que persigue el cumplimiento de un doble objetivo: promover el desarrollo social y permitir a las empresas recobrar los índices de ganancia de doble dígito. Durante casi cien años...Starting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever reinventa la rueda (B)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1425StrategyEl caso (B) describe cómo HLL creó un modelo nuevo de negocio para competir en el mercado BOP y los increíbles resultados que obtuvo. Concluye planteando las siguientes cuestiones: ¿Son sostenibles estos índices de crecimiento? Y si lo son, ¿pueden multiplicarse con la política multilocal y multinacional de Unilever?Starting at €5.74
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Mudra Communications
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Shankar Venkatagiri; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B11E030-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn 2006, Mudra Communications, the third-largest advertising agency in India, is in the middle of an organizational transformation in which information technology (IT) is seen by the top management as pivotal. The IT setup is undergoing a transition at Mudra from manual systems to an Enterprise System (ES) which has been developed internally by the eight-member IT team led by executive vice president for technology Sebastian Joseph. As he gets re...Starting at €8.20
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Decathlon China: Using Social Media to Penetrate the Internet Market
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Raymond Pirouz; Grace GengCase IVEY-9B11A043-EInformation Technologies, Marketing, StrategyAfter successfully establishing more than 33 retail stores in large cities across China, Decathlon, a large French sporting goods manufacturer and retailer, planned to open its official online shopping website in China. The marketing department head of Decathlon China had experimented with several new social media platforms in China in order to increase the brand awareness among online shoppers. At the upcoming executive meeting, the marketing de...Starting at €8.20
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Samsung: The Internet of Things
Paul Okundaye; Nicole R.D. HaggertyCase IVEY-9B19E020-EInformation Technologies, StrategyIn 2014, the Internet of things (IoT) was still considered in its infancy stage. Over the next two years, the IoT matured and represented a considerable amount of uncertainty for the entire electronics industry. In 2016, the industry was at an inflection point regarding the technology, and its largest competitors had to make a choice: risk investing in research and development for a potential return (or failure), or stay the course and let compet...Starting at €8.20
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Hindustan Lever Re-invents the Wheel (A)
Ellison B.; Rodríguez Badal, Miguel ÁngelCase DG-1424-EStrategyThis case series deals with the pioneering experience of Unilever at the "base of the pyramid" (BOP). The BOP consists of those 4 billion people excluded from the market economy and living in poverty. The BOP is a new management concept that conveys the promise to fulfill a twofold objective: promote social development and allow companies to regain double digit growth rates. For almost 100 years, Hindustan Lever (HLL), a subsidiary of Unilever, h...Starting at €8.20