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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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Savemom: The Smart Wearable Solution for Maternal Health Care
Renuka Kamath; Shrinath V.Case IVEY-W27806-EEntrepreneurship, Knowledge and CommunicationIn January 2020, two social entrepreneurs were looking back at the first five years of operation of their venture JioVio Healthcare. The entrpreneurs had designed, developed, and implemented their cloud-based Internet of Things software Savemom. Using feedback from key stakeholders, Savemom assisted in the early detection of preventable complications during pregnancy and safe delivery, especially for expectant mothers in rural India, with a goal ...Starting at €8.20
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Castrol India Limited: An Innovative Distribution Channel
Renuka KamathCase IVEY-9B16A044-EMarketing, StrategyIn January 2006, the general manager of sales at Castrol India Limited was concerned. Sales of Castrol motorcycle oil for four-stroke engines was far less than it should be, especially when considering the five million motorcycles being added to Indian roads each year. Most motorcycle oil changes took place in franchised workshops during the warranty period and in non-franchised workshops after the warranty period. The general manager wanted to i...Starting at €8.20
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Captain Fresh: Value Fishing across Segments
Renuka Kamath; ShabbirHusain R.V.Case IVEY-W32008-EMarketing, StrategyCaptain Fresh, a tech-enabled business-to-business (B2B) seafood marketplace based out of Bengaluru, India, had been enjoying phenomenal success. Founder Utham Gowda set out to simplify the seafood supply chain in a fragmented, unstructured, and complex market. He was sure that going forward, technology would play a major role in building high-quality distribution infrastructure that would take fish from sea to plate. In January 2022, having achi...Starting at €8.20
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Direct-to-Consumer Brand Suta: Weaving in Conversion Rate Optimization
Sheila Roy; Renuka KamathCase IVEY-W28030-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingTwo women entrepreneurs co-founded a profitable direct-to-consumer apparel brand called Suta. In June 2021, as the business owners were planning to increase advertising expenditure and scale up operations, they were confronted with a declining return on advertising spend on social commerce and other digital platforms. The co-founders needed to make use of marketing analytics to examine the effectiveness of their online store in converting visitor...Starting at €8.20
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Singapore Airlines' Balancing Act (Spanish version)
Heracleous, Loizos; Wirtz, JochenArticle HBS-R1007PStrategySIA has delivered healthy financial returns; it has never had an annual loss; and except for the initial capitalization, the Asian airline has funded its growth itself while paying dividends every year.Starting at €8.20
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An Irate Distributor: The Question of Profitability
Renuka Kamath; K.K. Kishore; Sagar SharmaCase IVEY-9B13A015-EMarketing, StrategyIn June 2012, an area sales manager at NutriPack India, a multinational company dealing with fast-moving consumer goods, had to find a way to match the success of his predecessor in increasing retail outlet coverage in central Maharashtra. He studied the territory data and identified the Jalgaon region as having the potential for high growth. However, the single distributor for Jalgaon was upset because he had already increased his operations the...Starting at €8.20
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Singapore Airlines' Balancing Act
Heracleous, Loizos; Wirtz, JochenArticle HBS-R1007P-EStrategySingapore Airlines is widely regarded as an exemplar of excellence in an industry whose service standards are tumbling. What's not so well known is that the company is also one of the civil aviation industry's cost leaders. SIA's success in executing a dual strategy of differentiation and cost leadership is unusual. Indeed, management experts, such as Michael Porter, argue that it's impossible to do so for a sustained period since dual strategies...Starting at €8.20
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CavinKare’s Indica Easy: Launching Shampoo Hair Colour - Teaching Note
Renuka Kamath; ShabbirHusain R.V.Teaching Note IVEY-W26293-EMarketingTeaching note for product W26292.Starting at €0.00
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Savemom: The Smart Wearable Solution for Maternal Health Care - Teaching Note
Renuka Kamath; Shrinath V.Teaching Note IVEY-W27807-EEntrepreneurship, Knowledge and CommunicationTeaching note for product W27806.Starting at €0.00