Ivey Business School (Canada)
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The Goli Vada Pav — Fast Food of India (A)
Sonia Mehrotra; S. Ramakrishna VelamuriCase IVEY-9B12M005-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyGoli Vada Pav Pvt. Limited (GVPPL) identified an opportunity to brand one of Mumbai’s favourite fast foods — the vada pav. GVPPL’s founders saw a huge opportunity in the Indian fast food industry, which was highly unorganized and largely serviced by small-time local vendors. There was a need in the market for a hygienic, branded product and Goli Vada Pav was created to fill this void. GVPPL broke the stereotype of unhygienic, manhandled vada pav....Starting at €8.20
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LifeSpring Hospitals: Delivering Affordable, High-quality Maternal Health Care in India
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri; Wei Zhang; Priya Anant; Monidipa MukherjeeCase IVEY-9B12M105-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis case highlights the journey of an organization that was set up in Hyderabad, in southern India, to provide affordable maternal care services to women from low-income urban families. LifeSpring Hospitals grew from a single hospital into a chain of nine hospitals, all in Hyderabad, in only five years. The chief executive officer has spent this initial period trying out new methods, continuously fine-tuning the model and learning from this proc...Starting at €8.20
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Ashta Chamma - The Biggest Small Movie Ever Made (B)
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri; Rajesh Chakrabarti; Hari Krishna Mulpuri; Payal Goel; Vamsi Krishna Kothapalli; Sneha Beriwal; Vijay Bhaskar Chowdary SuryadevaraCase IVEY-9B10M080-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis supplement to Ashta Chamma — The Biggest Small Movie Ever Made (A) presents the outcome after the movie’s release.Starting at €5.74
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Golden Star Facilities and Services Pvt. Ltd.
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri; Rishi Raj Kanoria; Anuj Srivastava; Nandita Narayan; Deepti Singh; Jaydev ThampanCase IVEY-9B10M098-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe huge growth of information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (TIES) businesses in India and, in particular, in Hyderabad, led to the establishment of Indian and multi-national companies. With large numbers of employees and thousands of square feet of office space, these companies recognized that maintaining their premises was not part of their core competence and outsourced their housekeeping requirements, thus creat...Starting at €8.20
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The Goli Vada Pav — Fast Food of India (B)
Sonia Mehrotra; S. Ramakrishna VelamuriCase IVEY-9B12M006-EStrategyThis case is a supplement to The Goli Vada Pav — Fast Food of India (A).Starting at €5.74
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NephroPlus
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri; Geetika ShahCase IVEY-9B15M040-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyStarting with a small pilot centre in Hyderabad in 2010, a chain of quality dialysis centres had grown to 25 centres by mid-2014, with plans to expand to 100 by 2017. As they planned for this growth, the three co-founders had several questions with respect to NephroPlus's business model, partners, staff, systems, processes and culture playing on their minds. With the threat of competition looming large, they knew that they had to work hard to ach...Starting at €8.20
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Eye-Q: Vision for the Long Term
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri; Geetika ShahCase IVEY-9B17M133-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTwo life-long friends, one a doctor and one a business professional, joined forces to set up Eye-Q Super Specialty Hospitals in 2007. Driven by their shared goal of bringing superior quality eye care to places where such services were desperately needed, the partners chose to operate in the small towns and cities across India. Both men believed in a vision that combined a socially driven business model with a commercially viable enterprise, and t...Starting at €8.20
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LV Prasad Eye Institute
Vasantha Kumar; S. Ramakrishna Velamuri; Wei ZhangCase IVEY-9B13C007-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAWARD WINNING CASE - Best case in the Entrepreneurship & Indian Family Business category, 2012 ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition. An entrepreneur puts his entire lifetime into building an organization. When it comes to health care in India, it is all the more difficult as there are so many hurdles, such as a huge population that cannot afford to pay, shortage of trained manpower and increasing cost of supplies. LV Prasad Eye Institute has been suc...Starting at €8.20
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Swagruha Foods
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri; Neha Kaushik; Anant Jhawar; Anandram Narasimhan; Shubha Pai; Jaspreet Singh Sidhu; Devyani SrivastavaCase IVEY-9B09M068-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Swagruha Foods case has been developed to highlight the challenge facing many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) all over the world. There are many SMEs that have successfully overcome the initial survival challenge. They have a stable base of loyal customers, are able to command attractive prices, and have built up a reputation for good quality. Yet they are unable to grow beyond a certain point. Why? What must they do to overcome the growt...Starting at €8.20
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Ashta Chamma - The Biggest Small Movie Ever Made (A)
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri; Rajesh Chakrabarti; Hari Krishna Mulpuri; Payal Goel; Vamsi Krishna Kothapalli; Sneha Beriwal; Vijay Bhaskar Chowdary SuryadevaraCase IVEY-9B10M079-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyA young man in India follows his passion through to near-bankruptcy. Equipped with an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, he avoids a high-paying corporate job and instead starts a stockbroking firm. After ups and downs in several businesses, he finally decides his real fulfilment will come from producing a full-length movie — Ashta Chamma, based on the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Ernest. The case chronicles the various issues he faces: funding ...Starting at €8.20