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Seroflo in Nepal: Sustaining Brand Leadership in COVID-19 Times
Servjaeta Verma; Vinay VermaCase IVEY-9B20A080-EMarketing, StrategyIn Nepal, which primarily relied on the use of oral therapy for the treatment of chronic respiratory conditions, Nirparaj Joshi, country manager for Nepal at Cipla Limited (Cipla), had been successful in creating a market plan for the inhaler brand, SerofStarting at €8.20
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Estrategia de refrigeradoras de Haier U.S. para 2005
Ghemawat, Pankaj; Hout, Thomas M.; Siegel, JordanCase HBS-709S06StrategyHaier, la primera marca de consumo duradero china en los Estados Unidos, tuvo éxito en los mercados refrigerador, congelador, y el aire acondicionado compactos y luego construyó una fábrica de EE.UU. para entrar en el mercado de tamaño completo. Los temas incluyen el valor de un empresario local al fabricante asiático entrar en los Estados Unidos; construcción de marca y posicionamiento de precio; la disyuntiva decisión de localización de abastec...Starting at €8.20
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UltraTech Cement: A Transition towards Behaviour-Based Safety
Servjaeta Verma; Ravi Kant DubeyCase IVEY-9B18C023-ELeadership and People ManagementUltraTech Cement Limited was a global leading producer of cement that had implemented best-in-class safety practices at all of its units. Despite this, the company’s Rawan Cement Works plant in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, had witnessed some serious safety incidents in the past, and these had resulted in lowered employee morale. A close analysis revealed that un-safe conduct by employees was partly responsible for the accidents, and that there wa...Starting at €8.20
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Haier's U.S. Refrigerator Strategy, Teaching Note
Ghemawat, Pankaj; Hout, Thomas M.; Altman, Steven A.; Siegel, JordanTeaching Note HBS-711473-EStrategyTeaching Note for #705-475.Starting at €0.00
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Desi Hangover: Circular Transition of a Conscious Fashion Brand
Servjaeta VermaCase IVEY-W27249-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyDesi Hangover, an Indian company empowering artisans to manufacture handcrafted leather footwear, was a finalist at Lakmé Fashion Week in 2020 in the category of Circular Changemakers. The chief executive officer had a dream of establishing his company as a leading circular economy fashion brand, and now he had a chance to pitch his vision of the future. But his core team had reservations and worried about the cost and risk of transitioning fully...Starting at €8.20
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Wild Chef Limited: Scaling Up a Cloud-Based Restaurant
Servjaeta VermaCase IVEY-9B18A007-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyWild Chef Limited (Wild Chef) was a multi-cuisine restaurant operating a take-away and delivery format in Delhi’s National Capital Region. It adopted the emerging concept of cloud kitchen in July 2016, considering the promising opportunities offered by the rapidly growing food-technology market in India. Key strategic decisions helped Wild Chef achieve its operational break-even point in its third month, and after one year, the owners were consid...Starting at €8.20
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Cipla Limited: Taking Inhalation Therapy to the Masses
Servjaeta VermaCase IVEY-9B19M003-EStrategyCipla Limited was a pioneer in inhalation therapy in India, and was globally acclaimed for its range of inhalers for obstructive airway diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In 2014, the company wanted to take inhalation therapy to the masses, especially in the rural and semi-urban areas of the country. This required strengthening its reach at the general practitioner level (among primary care physicians) and extendin...Starting at €8.20
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CQ Max: Crafting a Product Launch
Servjaeta VermaCase IVEY-9B18A054-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingIn March 2017, Inderjit Baboota, head of Sales and Marketing at Genspec Lifesciences, was preparing to meet with his team to craft the brand launch strategy of the company’s product CQ Max. Although natural therapy was recognized in India for various ailments, few scientific formulations were available. Turmeric was used in various forms in India for the treatment and prevention of a variety of conditions due to its main active ingredient, curcum...Starting at €8.20
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A Chinese Approach to Management
Hout, Thomas M.; Michael, DavidArticle HBS-R1409J-EAt first glance, China, which is known for large, often inefficient state-owned enterprises, might appear an unlikely source of fresh management thinking. Yet Chinese companies have a lot to teach the world about today's business imperatives: responsiveness, improvisation, flexibility, and speed. To cope with their turbulent environment, the Chinese have developed those capabilities and learned to build everything--from skilled recruits to suppli...Starting at €8.20
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China vs the World: Whose Technology Is It
Hout, Thomas M.; Ghemawat, PankajArticle HBS-R1012H-EStrategyNo longer content with being the world's factory for low-value products, China has quietly opened a new front in its campaign to become the globe's most powerful economy: It's on a quest for high-tech dominance. In pursuit of this goal, the Chinese government has ensured that it will be both buyer and seller in certain key industries by retaining ownership of customers and suppliers alike. It has consolidated manufacturers in those industries int...Starting at €8.20