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In the year 1967, MrRihan Khan Pathan, founded Modern Furniture. Later Mr.Adam Khan, Proprietor of the firm since 2005. In the year 2019, he thought to have Modern Furniture online where customers could buy furniture and have it delivered to their home or office. This could be his venture to be online venture will be an extension of his brick-and-mortar store, which had been very successful in Dharwad city, an Education city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Although Modern Furniture had ...

In June 2018, Rajvarmans, a newly married couple, moved to Mumbai and needed residential accommodation. The case examines the quantitative benefits of renting vis-à-vis owning a house. On the one hand, the forced saving plan, pride of ownership, and security sense favored owning the house. On the other hand, renting benefits include affordability, flexibility in mobility and savings, and predictable monthly expenses. Should Rajvarmans opt for renting or owning a house under all circumstances? ...

This case revolves around a couple named Mr. Lalit Tiwari and Mr. Koyal Tiwari who have just been retired from their services and shifted back to their hometown in Haryana, India. After sitting idle for a couple of months, they decided to open a day care center in their house. They charted out the necessary prerequisites to start their new venture and finally started their Day Care Operations. Now, after a month of operation, they started to doubt their decision based on financial aspects. As both ...

During the pandemic Covid 19, confirmed death cases are six times less in countries with women in power in comparison to the countries led by men. Will this positively influence us and garner our attention to elect and promote more women in power? On 26th October 2017, at the age of 37, Jacinda Ardern became the New Zealand youngest Prime Minister. The third female and the second one in the world to bear children during power. After being haunted by media about her personal plans to have children. ...

The case describes the struggle of the Kerala Textile shop women workers against their employers for their right to sit (Irikkal Samaram). Forced to stand for long hours with little access to washrooms, the women in the textile shops suffered from various health challenges. Added to that, they were ‘policed’ by the employers for any observed deviations and subjected to a wage cut. Consequently, the women rose in protest against their employer. This case is discussed from various theoretical ...

Atal Pension Yojana (APY) is a social security scheme introduced by the Prime Minister of India in 2015. This scheme aims to secure unorganised sector employees as they do not have any social security benefit. This scheme ensures the beneficiary gets a monthly pension of Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 5,000 from the age of 60 and the pension continues until his/her death. After the demise of beneficiary, his/her spouse is eligible to get the same pension until his/her expiry. Eventually, the fixed corpus amount ...

This case aids in understanding the approaches to choose the best location for any business facility among available location options. This case let can be used in Operations Management subject while teaching the topic of “Plant Location” in Semester I/II of MBA/PGDM program This case let aids in understanding the application of Factor Rating Method, break even analysis and Porter’s Diamond Model to take decision for location of any facility of a business. Employed as an operations ...

The case is based on the 21-day lockdown period which was imposed in India to reduce the contagion of Covid-19. The situation created by the outbreak of the pandemic was never-like before and the entire country came to a standstill as movement was banned within and outside the country. The streets were deserted, and shops closed, and the police manned the streets day and night. It was war like situation, only difference was the unseen enemy!! The social-media had already created awareness on Covid-19 ...

Digital technologies are creating a sea change in the ways people find, consume, and share content. New capabilities are arising every day that were unimaginable a few short years ago. Today, you can download and read a bestselling novel instantly on your phone, click through interactive charts in an online newspaper, or listen to a live podcast during your evening commute. When Ashok Soota started Happiest Minds in 2011, he foresaw the power of digital technologies to transform and modernize companies ...

22nd Parallel is one of the leading F&B enterprises in Vadodara, Gujarat. The firm started its journey with a vision to provide a great south Indian dining experience at Vadodara in the year 2011 and currently has 6 operational outlets under 2 brands. It started franchising from the year 2016 and while it saw great success with the franchise outlets within the city of Vadodara in terms of time taken to achieve operational break even, it has been noticed that the one outlet opened outside of Vadodara, ...

IBM Private Cloud and IBM POWER 9 Servers optimizes mission-critical applications and infrastructure to stay agile and innovation-centered Business Challenge GCMMF , the owner of AMUL brand, aimed to grow its turnover almost threefold and expand the business to unchartered territories over a ten-year period. However a complex, multi-tier supply chain and siloed operations resulted in inefficiency due to lack of visibility across the supply chain. Transformation A tenfold growth in turnover over ...

This case study is about the rise of an exceptional woman business leader and one of the most celebrated bankers, Chanda Kochhar (Chanda), who joined ICICI Ltd., as a management trainee in 1984 and later shifted to ICICI Bank, one of the largest private sector banks in India and rose to the level of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. This case study discusses the rise of a woman business leader in a highly gender biased industry. This case study also reflects Chanda’s fearless personality ...

In 2017, Narayana Reddy (Narayana), a Good Samaritan, lovingly called Grandpa all over the world, launched Grandpa Kitchen, a popular cooking channel, on YouTube. There are over 260 cooking videos on the channel showcasing various dishes but made in epic style or gargantuan size in open fields using firewood. The food made was later distributed to the children and poor. The channel garnered more than six million subscribers by 2019. Narayana died on October 27th 2019 at the age of 73 years and his ...

Often dubbed as "Netflix for movies", MoviePass aimed to disrupt the American movie business by introducing the subscription-based pricing model as against the pay-per-view pricing model prevalent for quite a long time. Though the fledgling subscription service began in 2011, its game changing subscription plan launched on August 15th 2017 disrupted the American movie business which had long been plagued with decreasing theatre admissions and increasing ticket prices. With Mitch Lowe as its CEO (earlier ...