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Hindustan Unilever Mulls Over E-grocery Market Option
Sandeep Puri; Manjusha Subramanian; Abhinav GrandhiCase IVEY-9B15A054-EMarketing, StrategyThe prospect of online grocery (e-grocery) shopping has generated a substantial amount of interest. Many fast-moving consumer goods companies have entered this potential market, and Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is contemplating building its own e-grocery platform. However, e-grocery firms have yet to develop a business model that can consistently deliver profits while also creating value for customers. HUL needs to assess the potential barrie...Starting at €8.20
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Hindustan Unilever Mulls Over E-grocery Market Option (Spanish version)
Sandeep Puri; Manjusha Subramanian; Abhinav GrandhiCase IVEY-9B15AS054Marketing, StrategyThe prospect of online grocery (e-grocery) shopping has generated a substantial amount of interest. Many fast-moving consumer goods companies have entered this potential market, and Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is contemplating building its own e-grocery platform. However, e-grocery firms have yet to develop a business model that can consistently deliver profits while also creating value for customers. HUL needs to assess the potential barrie...Starting at €8.20
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Baggout: Growing a Social Curation Start-Up
Safal Batra; Sandeep PuriCase IVEY-9B16M086-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe two co-founders of India’s online retail aggregator Baggout needed to come up with some ideas that would create new growth for their company. Baggout’s e-shopping website had been operational for two and a half years, and during that time, the start-up had enjoyed considerable success in the highly competitive and rapidly growing online retail market. The two partners wanted to establish a strategic growth plan for the upcoming year in 2016, ...Starting at €8.20
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Rx Pharmacy: Physical versus Online Options
Sandeep Puri; Siddhant PuriCase IVEY-9B16M115-EStrategyIn May 2015, Alankit Life Care Limited was concerned about the future of Rx Pharmacy, its online pharmacy retail venture. The company had both a physical and an online platform for Rx Pharmacy, but the physical stores were not doing well due to aggressive marketing strategies adopted by competitors. Government regulations also presented a threat to the future of the online pharmacy. Rx Pharmacy was targeting a customer base of 50,000 customers an...Starting at €8.20
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Paytm: Targeting More Pockets for Its Mobile Wallet
Sandeep Puri; Shivani Upadhyay; Siddharth Agarwal; Debasish ChatterjeeCase IVEY-9B16M026-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyPaytm enjoyed a position as the leader in India’s market for mobile wallets, a digital service that enabled payments to be made through mobile devices. Paytm’s major client, Uber, which developed and operated a smartphone-based, ride-hailing app as a way to compete with traditional taxi companies, had initially used Paytm’s mobile wallet as the sole payment mode for Uber rides in India. However, in 2015 Uber revised its payment policy by adding a...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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Paytm: Targeting More Pockets for Its Mobile Wallet (Spanish Version)
Sandeep Puri; Shivani Upadhyay; Siddharth Agarwal; Debasish ChatterjeeCase IVEY-W27122Entrepreneurship, StrategyPaytm enjoyed a position as the leader in India’s market for mobile wallets, a digital service that enabled payments to be made through mobile devices. Paytm’s major client, Uber, which developed and operated a smartphone-based, ride-hailing app as a wayStarting at €8.20
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uberPOOL
Iansiti, Marco; Toffel, Michael W.; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-617009-EService and Operations ManagementThis case describes Uber's uberPOOL service, which let multiple Uber users who were headed in the same direction share a ride and pay substantially lower fares.Starting at €8.20
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Pricing PatientPing
Cespedes, Frank V.; Kelley, Julia; Migdal, AmramCase HBS-818017-EIn 2017, Jay Desai, the CEO of Boston-based health care technology company PatientPing, had to consider a number of interrelated pricing challenges. Founded in late 2013, PatientPing sold a software platform that allowed health care providers to receive real-time notifications ("Pings") when one of their patients was admitted to or discharged from a health care facility. Pings allowed providers to coordinate with one another to reduce costs and e...Starting at €8.20
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Ajanta Packaging
Sandeep PuriCase IVEY-9B13A049-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThe Indian packaging industry — represented by a mix of paperboard, plastics, metals and glass — had seen great change leading up to 2013. In 2012, Ajanta Packaging ranked among the top suppliers of glass bottles in India with an employee base of more than 50 and net revenues of US$100 million. The glass-bottle industry had a derived demand and depended on major industries using glass bottles in India, such as the liquor and beer, soft-drinks and...Starting at €8.20