CASELET

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 ...

This case study can be used to illustrate how a structured classroom pursuit can result in a game-changing product. In 2007, four students with diverse educational backgrounds, met at the 'Design for Extreme Affordability' course at Stanford's d.school where they were given 'The Extreme Challenge' - to design an incubator which costed 1% of state-of-the-art incubators costing $20,000. The low-cost incubator would help pre-term and low-birth-weight babies in developing countries survive, many of whom ...

How can a small fashion vertical player survive amidst highly-funded, fiercely competitive and big players? Should it pivot to a new business model or should the founders keep building on the sweet spot originally identified? These are some of the questions plaguing India's first social commerce marketplace's co-founders Arjun Zacharia and Ankit Sabharwal, as of September 2018. Started as a fashion discovery and content start-up, Wooplr morphed into a social commerce enterprise with an eye on women's ...

A reputed management institute in Nashik had planned a study tour of its post graduate students to Kerala. After evaluating the different tour operators on various parameters, a new start-up tour operator Travel on Wheels Pvt. Ltd., was given an opportunity to organize this tour. However, during the tour it was felt that the tour operator created a rosy picture of services delivery wherein in reality it was a nightmare for the batch-I of the tour. It was felt that the proposition was of over promise ...

Land acquisition has always been a tedious process for the authorities to carry on a new development project. Land owners never get satisfied with what they get in exchange of their soil. Also, high cathexis of these poor owners because of their soil’s ancestral values makes it more difficult for these authorities to make satisfactory compensation and thus unable to move ahead. In this case, hypothetical conditions are drafted which tend to reengineer the concept of traditional Land Acquisition ...

**ET CASES – FLAME INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE CASE AWARD for presenting the MOST INNOVATIVE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE CASE This caselet discusses the loss of a loyal customer in a B2B situation. Thermax is a manufacturer of industrial boilers, combustion equipment and water treatment plants. Thermax supports their customers through their franchisee – Thermochem Corporation in Bangalore. BioCell has been their loyal customer since many years. Thermax has just lost an order for 12 units of water ...

The case puts forth the concept of use of Open Access Electricity for a 5-star hotel in Alibaug. When the electricity bills of any establishment go beyond manageable limits, and it is not feasible to generate electricity on site, an open access system can be effectively implemented. In this, the electricity can be purchased from the open market without being forced to purchase it from the existing power supplying company. A Tri-Party Power Purchase Agreement can be put in place to help solve the issue ...

Cases of corporate governance debacle are not new globally or in India. Sahara India Pariwar, as is popularly known through its two companies over a period of time swindled a huge INR 24000 crore from its investors through Optionally Fully Convertible Debentures OFCDs). Two of its group companies Sahara India Real Estate Corporation Limited (SIRECL) and Sahara Housing Investment Corporation Limited (SHICL) started collecting subscription through OFCD from 25th April 2008 to 13th April 2011. Surprisingly ...