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Mahindra Rise: A Brand Architecture Decision
Ashita Aggarwal; Sulakshana "Lulu" RaghavanCase IVEY-9B14A077-EMarketing, StrategyIn 2009, the Mahindra Group, a US$16.3 billion multinational corporation based in Mumbai, India, had introduced a new positioning called “Rise” to provide meaning to its brand and help unite its various businesses under a common umbrella. Successful integration and implementation of the new positioning required the company to re-examine its brand architecture, which was currently a complex, inside?out arrangement that resulted in a diffused image...Starting at €8.20
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Seijing Motor Corporation: Reposition or Extend the Pickup Brand
Ashita Aggarwal; Shriram Iyer; Projesh KarCase IVEY-9B18A012-EMarketingIn early 2016, the country head for Seijing Motor Corporation (SMC) in India was worried about stagnant sales of the company’s Supreme pickup brand. The Supreme brand had gained only a single-digit market share over the past year, and SMC’s share of the growing large pickup market had steadily fallen, from 40 per cent in 2005 to 10 per cent in 2015. SMC’s Supreme brand was competing with the market leader in the pickup segment. The pickup needed ...Starting at €8.20
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Evoe Spring Spa: A Positioning Dilemma
Ashita Aggarwal; Renuka Kamath; Sunil RaoCase IVEY-9B13A051-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThe co-founders of Evoe Spring Spa need to decide on the positioning of their business in the nascent Indian spa market. Indian consumers perceive spas as an expensive indulgence for the rich, and some spa services are seen as socially and culturally unacceptable. As a result, the co-founders need to build this category by changing consumer attitudes toward spa services. To identify the target segment and the best positioning for Evoe, the co-fou...Starting at €8.20
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John Keells Hotels in Sri Lanka: Building Brand Architecture
Ashita Aggarwal; Sulakshana "Lulu" Raghavan; Ruchi GunewardeneCase IVEY-9B19A028-EMarketing, StrategyIn the summer of 2012, the president of the leisure sector of John Keells Hotels needed to discuss marketing strategies with his senior management team. The company was a well-known brand that operated Cinnamon Hotels and Resorts and Chaaya Hotels and ResStarting at €8.20
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Radically Simple IT (Spanish version)
Upton, David M.; Staats, Bradley R.Article HBS-R0803JInformation Technologiesthe difficulty and expense of mapping out all requirements before a project starts because people often cannot specify everything that they need beforehand; the other unanticipated needs that almost always arise once a system is in operation; and the tricky task of persuading people to use and "own" it. Japan's Shinsei Bank emerged during the authors' research as a standout among the companies applying the path-based method. The firm designed, b...Starting at €8.20
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Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering
Upton, David M.; Kim, BowonCase HBS-609018-EService and Operations ManagementExplores the journey of aggressive learning and capability building in the operations of a major Korean Shipbuilder. While DSHM had once used its superior learning capability to topple its Japanese competition, it now faced the potential for a similar attack from new Chinese competitors. Without outsourcing some of its work to China, DSHM would become uncompetitive. However, in outsourcing the work, some skills would necessarily have to be transf...Starting at €8.20
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TCS: The MCA 21 Project
Upton, David M.; Staats, Bradley R.Case HBS-609024-ETata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading outsourced software services provider based in India, must decide whether to bid on a high-profile government project within India. The project, if completed successfully, would mark another step in TCS' progression from a provider of low-cost technical resources to their goal of becoming an end-to-end technology enabled services provider. However, the project was not only complex but also presented cons...Starting at €8.20
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Pacific Dunlop China (A): Beijing (Spanish Version)
Upton, David M.; Seet, RichardCase HBS-607S28Service and Operations ManagementDescribe la situación de un gerente de planta Occidental con exceso de trabajo en una empresa conjunta chino. El cuarto en una línea de este tipo de gestores, que deben hacer frente a los problemas combinados de una incapacidad para delegar, costumbres y prácticas diferentes, y dificultades en la tecnología de la información y el control de la planta.Starting at €8.20
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GreedyGame: Leveraging Online-Gaming for Brand Storytelling
Ashita Aggarwal; Suraj Commuri; Ankit RawalCase IVEY-9B21A008-EMarketingFounded in 2015, GreedyGame Media Pvt. Ltd. (GreedyGame) had a mission to develop culturally relevant gaming content into which ads could be seamlessly integrated so as not to compromise the user experience. Through this approach, organizations would also be able to target their users more sharply. The market looked promising, and the opportunity was ample, but gaming as an industry was still new to India, especially for its inclusion in business...Starting at €8.20
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Café Coffee Day: Brand Transformation through Repositioning
Ashita Aggarwal; Sulakshana "Lulu" RaghavanCase IVEY-9B16A034-EMarketing, StrategyCafé Coffee Day pioneered retail café culture in India with its entry into the market in 1996. After enjoying success for more than a decade, the brand felt the need to evolve in order to suit consumer preferences and better compete in the market space. The Café Coffee Day management team commissioned a brand image study to better understand consumer perceptions. The results showed that although Café Coffee Day's “regular guy/girl” brand archetyp...Starting at €8.20