Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Rajghat Power House: The Economy or the Environment
Veena Keshav PailwarCase IVEY-9B16M089-EStrategyIn response to a recommendation at a government-sponsored power forum, Delhi’s aging and inefficient Rajghat Power House (RPH) was scheduled to close its doors. The coal-based plant had reached the end of its 25-year useful life, and its outdated equipment spewed toxins into Delhi’s air and water on a daily basis. Environmentalist bodies and power-distributing units in Delhi had made similar recommendations for the RPH’s closure over the years, a...Starting at €8.20
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Parle Products Private Limited: GST and Retaining Competitiveness
Veena Keshav PailwarCase IVEY-9B19M064-EStrategyIn July 2017, the government of India implemented goods and services tax (GST), which brought uniformity in the tax rates on all types of biscuits. Compared to the pre-GST regime, the uniform tax rate resulted in a higher tax rate on mass-market biscuitsStarting at €8.20
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Infibeam Internet Retailing
Piyush Kumar Sinha; Barbara L. Marcolin; Varsha Verma; Nupur GuptaCase IVEY-9B12M094-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case focuses on Infibeam, a small, new e-commerce company in India, as an illustration of innovative B2B contractual agreements that enabled it to acquire a significant customer base at a very low cost. However, it must now develop innovative strategies for marketing communication, customer value proposition and a new IT e-commerce rural platform in order to achieve its required growth estimates and raise capital for a new project in coopera...Starting at €8.20
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HCL Technologies
Barbara L. Marcolin; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B12E004-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyIn 2011, HCLT ERS, a division of HCL Technologies, a global IT services corporation headquartered in New Delhi, India, had to devise next year’s plan for the Engineering Out Of The Box (EOOTB) business concept that it had initiated in 2009. EOOTB had facilitated the division’s ability to create “16 productized solutions” and to engage customers in new revenue services. The productized solutions were heavily reliant upon IT platform-based solution...Starting at €8.20
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Coal India Limited: Privatization or Disinvestment
Veena Keshav PailwarCase IVEY-9B16M048-EStrategyCoal India Limited, the world’s largest coal mining company and India’s largest corporate employer, regularly produced less coal than was both achievable (i.e., it had excess capacity) and needed. As a result, it failed to meet the demand for coal from power utilities and other industries in the country. The Government of India, which had a persistent and large fiscal deficit, held the majority interest in the company. In January 2015, the govern...Starting at €8.20
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Compulsory Licence for Saxagliptin: Protection versus Competition
Veena Keshav PailwarCase IVEY-9B16M136-EStrategyIn June 2015, Lee Pharma Limited, a small Indian pharmaceutical company, filed an application with the Indian Patent Office for a grant of a compulsory licence to manufacture the diabetes drug Saxagliptin on the grounds that the patented version of the drug had not been made available to the public at an affordable price. The granting of a compulsory licence was expected to make the drug more affordable for the general public, but it would also u...Starting at €8.20
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Search Engines in Search of Fair Play
Veena Keshav PailwarCase IVEY-9B14M112-EStrategyGoogle’s plan to gear up its flight search service in India by allowing users to compare fares and book tickets made other domestic travel portals in India nervous. There were fears that this development might turn out to be discriminative as Google had the dominant share in Internet search service. Fearing a substantial reduction in their share of the search market, these domestic portals had the option of lodging a complaint against Google with...Starting at €8.20