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Hidesign: Leather Heritage or Lifestyle Brand
Suresh KeraniCase IVEY-9B12A012-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThe Hidesign case examines issues facing a niche fashion company in pursuit of its next growth phase. After three decades of offering a leather products portfolio, the founder and president of Hidesign has decided to extend Hidesign’s portfolio to include non-leather product categories such as sunglasses and pens. The company’s advertising tagline — “Real leather. Crafted the forgotten way.” — has helped position Hidesign as a quality leather acc...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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Forus Health: Crossing the Disruptive Product Chasm
Ramesh Narasimhan; M.V. Ravikumar; Nattuvathuckal BarnabasCase IVEY-9B14A064-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn April 2013, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Forus Health Private Limited sat in his office in Bangalore, India contemplating the future direction of his company. He was under pressure by his venture capital partner to rapidly penetrate the market for 3nethra — an innovative, multi-functional and low-cost ophthalmology device — before imitators stepped in. Given its features and advantages over expensive imported specialized tools...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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National Dairy: Defending Market Leadership
Subrat Sarangi; Debasis PradhanCase IVEY-9B15A001-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThe head of marketing and sales at National Dairy, a quasi-government co-operative enterprise in the Indian state of Odisha, is hounded by the threat from private milk marketing firms that are attempting to overtake the monopoly position enjoyed by National Dairy for close to three decades. The title company’s field salesforce provides intelligence reports from the market, indicating that National Dairy’s authorized retailers and bulk customers (...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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Otoyol Motor Company
Jim KayalarCase IVEY-9B09M053-EMarketing, Service and Operations Management, StrategyOtoyol Motor Company, a large commercial vehicle manufacturer, is on the verge of being liquidated by its shareholders. Despite all efforts to maintain its competitive position, the company has been caught in a downward spiral. Erosion of its first mover advantages, shifts in industry core competencies and changes in consumer preferences have depreciated the company's value proposition and deteriorated its market share. Utilizing empirical data, ...Starting at €8.20
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Whirlpool and the Built-in Appliance Industry in India
Sandeep Puri; Adeshwar Raja Balaji Prasad; Natarajan ANC; Parasaran VS; Sashikanth Yenika; Vijay Kumar VennaCase IVEY-9B13M082-EMarketing, StrategyIndia’s real estate boom led to the built-in appliances industry’s biggest opportunity. In 2010 and 2011, a total of 533,954 residential units were launched in seven top cities: Mumbai, National Capital Region, Pune, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad. As the market evolved and demand increased, investments and improvements in infrastructure, software, education, work force, installation, after-sales service, logistics were guaranteed to o...Starting at €8.20
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Tata: Leadership With Trust
Oana BranzeiCase IVEY-9B10M025-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyThe case illustrates the opportunities, challenges and trade-offs involved in the design, evolution and institutionalization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainability (CS) within the Tata Group, an India-based indigenous multinational enterprise (MNE) with a unique 140-year old commitment to the community as the key stakeholder of business. Despite the 2008-2009 global recession, the Tata Group topped the economic valu...Starting at €8.20
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Amar Chitra Katha: Changing the Brand with Changing Times
Subhadip Roy; YLR MoorthiCase IVEY-9B12A062-EMarketingThis case concerns the branding and marketing of a comic book series that started in the 1960s as an educational tool to make Indian children aware of Indian mythology, history and culture. By 2010, Amar Chitra Katha had around 500 titles covering a vast range of topics, but it was facing competition not only from international and indigenous comic book companies but from electronic media such as children’s games and shows on cable TV and the Int...Starting at €8.20