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Flipkart (B): The Ongoing Battle for India's E-Commerce Market
Gupta, Sunil; Narayandas, Das; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-518097-EMarketingIn 2017, both Flipkart and Amazon claimed leadership position in India's recently concluded key annual festive season sale, but it was too early to declare victory. Amazon continues to invest heavily in India. Competition from newer players is increasing. Media reports hint that Reliance Industries, a large Indian conglomerate, is planning to extend its e-commerce offering beyond fashion to electronics, mobile phones and even groceries. As th...Starting at €5.74
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Vitamax Technologies
Guiu E.; Bertini, Marco; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1139Information Technologies, MarketingCon la variación de su entorno competitivo, la empresa Vitamax ve amenazada su saludable posición en el mercado. Se analizan distintos aspectos de la empresa Vitamax Technologies: el incremento en el precio inicial de sus acciones al salir a bolsa; la amenaza de desintermediación; la baja conversión que tienen de suscriptores a clientes activos; y en general, la evolución de su modelo de negocios (buscan disminuir ventas de intermediación pura e ...Starting at €8.20
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Vita: Cosmetics in the Nordics
Narayandas, Das; Palepu, Krishna G.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-516013-EVita is a Norwegian cosmetics retailer owned by FSN Capital, a Scandinavian private equity company. The company has a strong market position in Norway. The case focuses on two strategic issues: how to develop an e-commerce strategy to supplement the company's traditional retail strategy, and how best to grow the company in Sweden. While both of these are potentially important future growth drivers, they also entail large investments in new capabi...Starting at €8.20
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Flipkart: Transitioning to a Marketplace Model, Teaching Note
Gupta, Sunil; Narayandas, DasTeaching Note HBS-516095-EMarketingTeaching note for case 516017. In 2015, Sachin and Binny Bansal, co-founders of India's largest e-tailer, Flipkart, announced that the company would switch to a marketplace model and move its logistics arm into a separate company. At the time of the announcement, Snapdeal already claimed to be India's largest marketplace, and Amazon and other deep-pocket traditional retail giants like Reliance, Future Group, and Tata left no stone unturned to ca...Starting at €0.00
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Transitioning to a Marketplace Model (Spanish version)
Narayandas, Das; Gupta, Sunil; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-518S12MarketingSachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, co-founders of India's largest e-commerce company, Flipkart, were reviewing the foregoing Facebook post, which had gone viral and received more than 20,000 likes. A third-party seller listed a pair of women's sandals on Flipkart's website at 799 Indian rupees and offered it on promotion at 399. However, upon close examination of the product's display photo, consumers noticed a 399 price tag printed on the strap. Co...Starting at €8.20
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Flipkart (A): Transitioning to a Marketplace Model
Narayandas, Das; Gupta, Sunil; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-516017-EMarketingSachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, co-founders of India's largest e-commerce company, Flipkart, were reviewing the foregoing Facebook post, which had gone viral and received more than 20,000 likes. A third-party seller listed a pair of women's sandals on Flipkart's website at 799 Indian rupees and offered it on promotion at 399. However, upon close examination of the product's display photo, consumers noticed a 399 price tag printed on the strap. Co...Starting at €8.20
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Digital Transformation at Tata Steel
Palepu, Krishna G.; Narayandas, Das; Kak, RadhikaCase HBS-323053-EStrategyT.V. Narendran, CEO of Tata Steel, India's oldest steel manufacturing firm, had taken concrete business and cultural transformation steps to future-ready the firm since taking over in 2013. He had deleveraged and instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, entered new segments and adjacent businesses, and launched digital transformation, agility, safety, and sustainability programs. At the heart of his transformation program lay the ...Starting at €8.20
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Lastminute.com (A)
Bertini, Marco; Nueno, José LuisCase M-1115Information Technologies, MarketingSe analizan distintos aspectos de la empresa Lastminute.com: el incremento en el precio inicial de sus acciones al salir a bolsa; la amenaza de desintermediación; la baja conversión que tienen de subscriptores a clientes activos; y en general la evolución de su modelo de negocios (buscan disminuir ventas de intermediación pura e incrementar la provisión de servicios de valor añadido).Starting at €8.20
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SAP: Branding in the Digital Age
Narayandas, Das; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-518058-EMarketingBy 2017, digital, social, and mobile technologies were rapidly changing the way many of SAP's traditional customers did business over the last decade. In response to this trend, SAP had acquired companies with capabilities in e-commerce, human capital, workforce management, travel and expense management, and other areas. No longer able to rely on a single contact point through customers' IT departments, SAP's salesforce now had to target a variet...Starting at €8.20
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Caso HBR: Llegó el momento de hacer una campa a unificada
Bertini, Marco; Gourville, John T.Article HBS-R1106MMarketingAlegre, un grupo hotelera líder en Centroamérica y Sudamérica, está sufriendo bajo la economía en problemas, y su nueva propiedad, el buque insignia Palma Cay en Cozumel, está perjudicando a la mayoría. Beatriz Soto, gerente de Palma Cay, tiene un plan para aumentar las reservas, pero no tienen el dinero para llevarlo a cabo. En caso de que la sede corporativa otorgar sus fondos adicionales, a pesar de las operaciones tradicionalmente descentrali...Starting at €8.20