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Greenkraft: Ensuring Sustainability During and Post COVID-19
Jaydeep MukherjeeCase IVEY-W31072-EStrategyGreenkraft Private Limited (Greenkraft) supplied artisanal products to global clients and was an India-based not-for-profit organization. The company worked to address the socio-economic needs of artisan women. For 800 women workers, the Greenkraft production unit symbolized independence and pride, motivating them to work and deliver quality output. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Greenkraft was compelled to adopt home production to supplement prod...Starting at €8.20
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Mantra Ayurveda: Scaling Direct-To-Consumer Marketing
Aditi Saini; Jaydeep MukherjeeCase IVEY-W25497-EMarketing, StrategyMantra Ayurveda (Mantra), established in India in 2020, manufactured and marketed luxury Ayurvedic skin care and hair care products. The brand’s equity in the Indian market was low, its performance marketing efforts were not leading to expected revenue gains, and the revenue from direct-to-consumer (DTC) initiatives had experienced a negligible uptick in financial year (FY) 2020–21. In April 2021, the chief executive officer would have to convinc...Starting at €8.20
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Basmati House Supermart: Co-Operative Competition with an E-Retail Channel
Jaydeep MukherjeeCase IVEY-9B20A035-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn July 2019, the owner of Basmati House Supermart (BHS), a grocery store, entered into a six-month agreement to become a partner outlet of a large online grocery retailer in India. During the first two months, BHS acquired many new customers and also increased its customers’ monthly purchase. However, the steep discounts and promotions used to attract customers to the business drove down the margins, while the customer churn rate increased. The ...Starting at €8.20
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Basmati House Supermart: Competing with the E-retail Channel
Jaydeep MukherjeeCase IVEY-9B20A068-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn January 2020, the proprietor of Basmati House Supermart (BHS), a large grocery retail outlet in India, terminated a partner retailer contract with Springers, an online retail platform. The proprietor had an ancestral property, located in a high-footfalStarting at €8.20
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SmartMoney: Digital Payments Strategy in India
Jaydeep Mukherjee; Anup AgrawalCase IVEY-9B20A007-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyOn March 25, 2019, the head of business growth for SmartMoney, owned by the Indian conglomerate Smart Industries Limited, was expected by his company’s management team to propose a strategy for capturing 10 per cent of India’s digital payments market in financial year 2019–20. He knew that the market was vast and fragmented and that he was working with a platform business, where fast mobilization was a key factor. SmartMoney already had market pr...Starting at €8.20
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LDFL India Limited: Adapting a Multi-Channel Distribution System for Omnichannel Consumers
Jaydeep MukherjeeCase IVEY-9B20A020-EMarketing, StrategyThe director of sales for the detergents arm of LDFL India Limited (LDFL) had to develop a 2019 sales strategy with the objective of reducing the inter-channel conflict that had resulted in the general trade (GT) channel’s destocking of LDFL products and a loss of market share in 2018. The cash and carry format was the biggest challenge for the GT business, as it provided a cheaper, on-demand supply source alternative to the GT retailers that dom...Starting at €8.20
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Brand Tanishq: Navigating Social Media Backlash
Jaydeep MukherjeeCase IVEY-W25084-EKnowledge and Communication, MarketingThe chief executive officer of the jewellery division at Titan Company Ltd. withdrew two successive advertising campaigns for jewellery brand Tanishq during its high selling festive season in 2020 due to intense social media trolling. These adverse social media reactions, shaped by religious beliefs and ideology, challenged the well-entrenched “progressive and bold” positioning of the brand. With multiple stakeholders and shifting societal ideolo...Starting at €8.20
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Chile: El tigre latinoamericano
Kennedy, Robert E.; Ramos, TeresitaCase HBS-706S04EconomicsExamina estrategia de desarrollo de Chile desde 1973. Tras una serie de reformas económicas internas, el país debe decidir si unirse a un bloque comercial regional. Considera las ventajas y desventajas de los acuerdos comerciales regionales y examina las diferencias entre un tratado de libre comercio (TLC) y una unión aduanera (Mercosur).Starting at €8.20
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"To Get Rich Is Glorious" (Spanish version)
Kennedy, Robert E.; Vietor, Richard H.K.; Galef, JuliaCase HBS-711S05EconomicsIn 1978, Deng Xiaoping assumed the leadership of an impoverished China, after Mao Zedong's disastrous Cultural Revolution. During the next 17 years, Deng applied pragmatic policies to liberalize the Chinese economy gradually while maintaining the power of the Communist state. In hindsight, this strategy was among the most successful development strategies ever. Reviews Chinese political history and explores in detail eight parts of Deng's develop...Starting at €8.20
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Comparative Advantage (Spanish version)
Kennedy, Robert E.; Koehn, Nancy F.Case HBS-714S19EconomicsHow nations trade and whether they benefit from it are two of the oldest and most important questions in political economy. In the 170 years since David Ricardo formally developed the theory of comparative advantage, it has become one of the principles most widely accepted among professional economists. Despite this wide acceptance in the professional community, the basics of international trade are still poorly understood by many policy makers a...Starting at €8.20