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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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Zola - Teaching note
Foster, G; Rosenthal, STeaching Note SGSB-E623TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe case describes the journey of Zola, an online wedding registry designed to greatly improve the clunky and impersonal wedding registry process. With innovative features such as group gifting, scheduled delivery, and honeymoon donations, Zola was described as the registry for Millenials. As the company achieved significant traction and looked to scale, it had to choose from three distinct strategic growth paths to pursue: 1) become the go-to ...Starting at €0.00
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Zola
Foster, G; Rosenthal, SCase SGSB-E623-EEntrepreneurshipThe case describes the journey of Zola, an online wedding registry designed to greatly improve the clunky and impersonal wedding registry process. With innovative features such as group gifting, scheduled delivery, and honeymoon donations, Zola was described as the registry for Millenials. As the company achieved significant traction and looked to scale, it had to choose from three distinct strategic growth paths to pursue: 1) become the go-to ...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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Tiny Prints (A)
Child, M; Rosenthal, SCase SGSB-E426A-ELeadership and People ManagementThe Tiny Prints case describes the founding of the online stationery company in 2004, through its growth and evolution to 2007. The three cofounders bootstrapped the company from the beginning, primarily so that they could retain control over the decision-making and strategic direction of the company. While that decision allowed the cofounders flexibility and independence, it also led to capital constraints and a “good enough” culture that had ...Starting at €8.20
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Tiny Prints (B)
Child, M; Rosenthal, SCase SGSB-E426B-ELeadership and People ManagementPart B of the case explores the management team’s decision to move forward with a purchase offer from Shutterfly or to maintain control of the company and continue to grow organically.Starting at €5.74
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Tiny Prints Background
Child, M; Rosenthal, SCase SGSB-E426-ELeadership and People ManagementThe Tiny Prints case describes the founding of the online stationery company in 2004, through its growth and evolution to 2007. The three cofounders bootstrapped the company from the beginning, primarily so that they could retain control over the decision-making and strategic direction of the company. While that decision allowed the cofounders flexibility and independence, it also led to capital constraints and a “good enough” culture that had ...Starting at €8.20