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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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Housing.com: Marketing a Service Offering
Astha S. Gupta; Kirti SharmaCase IVEY-9B16A011-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingHousing.com was a Mumbai-based online real estate listing company that verified the authenticity of every property listing on its website. Despite proving itself as a threat to big players in India’s online property portal space, it was struggling in late 2014 to establish itself as a preferred option among brokers. Conflicts of interest between sellers (i.e., brokers, builders, developers, and landowners who listed property online) and buyers (i...Starting at €8.20
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Crack-ED: Customer Journey of an Educational Technology Start-Up
Astha S. Gupta; Dr. Ranjita GuptaCase IVEY-W33576-EMarketing, StrategyIt was the afternoon of December 17, 2020, and Debojit Sen was concerned about the future of his educational technology (EdTech) start-up, Crack-ED, which was founded in March 2020 in Gurugram, Haryana, India. Crack-ED provided training to recent business school graduates in order to help them secure jobs in the competitive, post-COVID-19 marketplace. Several other EdTech start-ups such as such as Scalar Academy and upGrad Education Pvt. Ltd. had...Starting at €8.20
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Vibhava Chemicals: Pursuit of a Cleaner Space
Ramesh Narasimhan; Nattuvathuckal BarnabasCase IVEY-9B12A010-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn April 2011, Vithal Gambhir, the marketing director of Vibhava Chemicals, an entrepreneurial venture and leader in the black phenyl category in the home cleaning agents (HCA) market in South India, was faced with a marketing challenge. A slew of multi-national corporation (MNC) brands in the emerging new category of specialty cleaning agents had eroded Vibhava’s share of the traditional black phenyl category by 50 per cent over the previous eig...Starting at €8.20