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ShopClues.com: Turning Logistics into a Competitive Advantage
Anupama PrasharCase IVEY-9B17D008-EService and Operations Management, StrategyIn March 2016, the senior director of logistics and fulfillment at ShopClues.com, a leading online marketplace headquartered in Gurgaon, India, reflected on the positive turnaround in the company’s logistics strategy. Until 2014, the company had depended on air transport for shipment delivery, which limited it to Tier 1, Tier 2, and a few Tier 3 cities. It had relied entirely on the few national courier services available. These services had high...Starting at €8.20
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Parentune.com: Partnering Parents
Anupama PrasharCase IVEY-9B17D002-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyIn June 2016, the founder and chief executive officer of Parentune.com, a rapidly growing online parents’ community based in Gurgaon, India, was feeling the pressure of keeping his parenting support service relevant to the changing needs of millennial parents. Parentune.com supported parents at all stages of parenting by networking parents and experts. Since Parentune.com launched in November 2012, more than one million parents had become members...Starting at €8.20
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Hub and Spoke, HealthCare Global, and Additional Focused Factory Models for Cancer Care
Herzlinger, Regina E.; Ghorawat, Amit; Krishnan, Meera; Saggi, NaiyyaCase HBS-313030-EService and Operations ManagementThis case compares and contrasts four different models for delivering cancer care in India and the US. Students are asked to select the best model in its alignment with the Six Forces in those two countries and Africa, to which one of the models is considering expansion, and intrinsic business characteristics. The Indian models are all focused factories, but one is a hub and spoke model, with a radiology hub and ambulatory spokes, while the other...Starting at €8.20
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Bombay Hospital Indore: Administration of Patient Discharge Services
Fredrik Odegaard; Sudipendra Nath RoyCase IVEY-9B21E002-EDecision Analysis, Service and Operations ManagementIn 2016, a summer intern at Bombay Hospital Indore, in India, was tasked with evaluating the hospital’s patient discharge process. Two types of insured patients required different discharge processes for the payment of outstanding balances. The intern needed to map the respective processes and project the outcomes of (1) moving from the current two parallel systems to one centralized, or pooled, system; and (2) adding a third staff member to proc...Starting at €8.20
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Marico Ltd.: Distribution Network Optimization
Aishwarya sadasivan; Ashish Pingulkar; Debmallya ChatterjeeExercise IVEY-W25851-EDecision Analysis, Service and Operations ManagementOn July 1, 2020, the co-head of the logistics and planning department at Marico Ltd., based in India, was reviewing reports on various issues related to stock inventory and warehousing. After studying the reports, he found that both lost opportunity and warehousing costs for the company were high. Compounding the problem was the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which had added pressure to the company’s impending cost pressures. Initially, Marico Ltd. h...Starting at €8.20
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DVMS Power Electronics Private Limited: Capacity Analysis
Kedar P. Joshi; Vasanth Kamath VP; Mohnish GulveCase IVEY-9B17D025-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2016, the deputy general manager of operations at DVMS Power Electronics Private Limited (DVMS) in Gujarat, India, was faced with a problem at the company’s transformer plant. In recent years, amidst growing demand, the company had experienced low manufacturing capacity and was often unable to fill customer orders. Various stakeholders expressed their concerns about failing service levels. The deputy general manager was considering additional ...Starting at €8.20
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Medstar Polymers: Considering Production-Function-Based Input Optimization
Monika Sharma; Zillur RahmanCase IVEY-W25582-EEconomics, Service and Operations ManagementOn March 23, 2021, Vineet Sharma, the sole owner of MedStar Polymers, India, a medical-grade latex glove manufacturing company, was considering the dilemma of how to scale up production to fulfill an unprecedented order during COVID-19. With demand for protective equipment outstripping global supply during the pandemic, an exceptional business growth and expansion opportunity for glove manufacturers had emerged. Several manufacturers had expanded...Starting at €8.20
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Greendust: Revolutionizing the Returns Process
Mohita Gangwar Sharma; Jitendra K. Das; K.N. SinghCase IVEY-9B16D010-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations Management, StrategyGreenDust, a company established in 2009, sold branded, unused, seconds, surplus, and refurbished products at low prices. This traditionally had been an unorganized sector. With increased pressures on the bottom line, rapid changes in technology (and fast obsolescence), strategies of channel cleaning by the competition, and imminent e-waste regulations enforced by the Indian government, GreenDust tried to mitigate these factors by revolutionizing...Starting at €8.20
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IESE Insight. Issue 10. Third Quarter 2011
IESE InsightMagazine REV-10-EEconomics, Finance, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, Service and Operations Management, StrategyMauro F. Guillén and Esteban García-Canal highlight what managers of traditional, established MNCs can learn from their emerging market counterparts. Arnoud De Meyer considers the global innovation trends that have been heavily influenced by China, India and Southeast Asia. Francesc Prior and Javier Santomá take lessons from the banking sector to help all companies adapt their offer to the customers and circumstances of low-income segments. Alici...Starting at €22.00
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ITC eChoupal Initiative (Spanish version)
Upton, David M.; Fuller, Virginia A.Case HBS-606S02Service and Operations ManagementSoybean farmers in India have traditionally sold their product through ineffective and frequently dishonest physical marketplaces (mandi). Farmers are generally poor and often illiterate and are forced to be "price-takers" after an arduous journey to the mandi. They also have very limited access to information and education on farming techniques. Describes the use of Internet technologies to reach these farmers and, in particular, examines a new ...Starting at €8.20