Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Xiaomi: Could it Disrupt India’s Consumer Electronics Market
Boishampayan Chatterjee; Anindo BhattacharjeeCase IVEY-9B20M108-EStrategyChina-based Xiaomi entered India’s smartphone industry in 2014. In 2015, it had a meagre market share of 3 per cent, which by the first quarter of 2018 had grown to a 31 per cent market share, making it India’s number one smartphone player. Xiaomi was setStarting at €8.20
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Bharti Airtel's Airtel Zero: Violation of Net Neutrality
Susmi Routray; Boishampayan Chatterjee; Gunjan MalhotraCase IVEY-9B15M091-EStrategyIn April 2015, Bharti Airtel — India’s largest telecom provider and a leading global telecommunications company — launched Airtel Zero, an open marketing platform that would allow Airtel customers to access mobile applications with zero data charges. Application developers would pay Airtel to join the platform, but would in turn attract more users to their products. Immediately after its launch, Airtel Zero was subjected to severe criticism on th...Starting at €8.20
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Growing the Online Portal of Business Fundas
Arpan Kumar KarCase IVEY-9B14E024-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyBusiness Fundas, a portal that publishes educational business and management articles, is situated within the electronic publishing industry, which has many players and is highly fragmented. The start-up company faces many challenges in its efforts to position itself for growth and to take advantage of various innovative value propositions and business models. The senior managers hope to gain insights into user-specific trends through the use of ...Starting at €8.20
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Nurture.farm: Sustainable Agriculture Management through Smart Information Technologies
Arpan Kumar Kar; Rituparna Basu; Rohit Kumar JanaCase IVEY-W28483-EInformation Technologies, StrategyEstablished in 2020, Nurture.farm was a digital platform that focused on reimagining the next generation of sustainable technology-based solutions for agriculture. In June 2021, Nurture.farm’s chief executive officer Dhruv Sawhney and his team recognized a grave problem in northern India. Environmental hazards were being created from mass rice stubble burning, which was an inexpensive and quick way for farmers to clear their field for the next cr...Starting at €8.20
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Nexa: Maruti Suzuki's Premium Dealership Network
Boishampayan Chatterjee; Manas Paul; Parijat Upadhyay; Neel DasCase IVEY-9B16A040-EMarketing, StrategyIn July 2015, the largest automobile company in India, Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), took the initiative to improve its market penetration in a particular category of the passenger car market—the premium segment. Although MSIL was the current market leader in India’s entry-level car segment, the company had not been successful in establishing itself as a dominant player in the premium segment—a segment that had seen intense competition sinc...Starting at €8.20
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Tech Talk: Creating a Social Media Strategy
Arpan Kumar Kar; Reema AswaniCase IVEY-9B17E009-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyTech Talk is an electronic content publishing portal that publishes articles on information and communication technologies. The articles cover specialized areas such as business analytics, e-governance, e-commerce, web technologies, big data analytics, software project management, telecommunication systems, business management theories, service science, e-payments, and Internet marketing. As a growth strategy, the co- founder of Tech Talk wants t...Starting at €8.20