Hindalco and the Aditya Birla Group
Dissertation - 45 pages - Business strategy
Aditya Birla Group is India's first truly multinational corporation. A US$ 24 billion conglomerate with a market capitalization of US$ 23 billion, and has over 100,000 employees belonging to over 25 different nationalities on its rolls. Over 50% of its revenue flow from its overseas...
The effectiveness of the training and development program conducted at EXL Service.com (I) Pvt Ltd
Dissertation - 43 pages - Business strategy
Indian companies are walking up to the challenges thrown in by the market economy. To survive in this highly competitive scenario, managers are being pressured to improve quality, increase productivity, cut down waste & eliminate inefficiency. The collective effort of the employer and the...
Capital budgeting tools and analysis of capital expenditures
Case study - 35 pages - Business strategy
Capital budgeting is a financial procedure to ensure that capital is allocated to value adding opportunities. A capital budgeting / investment proposal should be accepted /rejected depending on whether it generates, over the life of investment, returns more than its cost of capital. “Capital...
The fair trade debate: Pros and cons and future prospects
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
Although most people know readily know of Free Trade, relatively very few have heard of Fair Trade. That being said Fair Trade has been around for decades, in various shapes and structures. This paper will consider the overall Fair Trade debate, and consider both sides of the issue, analyzing the...
Entrepreneurship and the Indian retail industry
Thesis - 26 pages - Business strategy
In India the retail industry is large, and it will continue to grow. The industry has a huge appetite for investments and is already seeing a lot of action on that front. A large number of global retailers are eyeing to get a share of the Indian retail pie. This report aims to aid them. Global...
Compensation structures for the better alignment of management and shareholder interests
Thesis - 13 pages - Business strategy
In recent years there has been much controversy surrounding the supposed ‘high' levels of executive compensation in large publicly traded firms. CEO pay packages, measured as multiples of average non-corporate worker pay, reached a peak of 525 times in 2000. Pay packages have also grown far...
Facilities management
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
The following writing has been carried out in order to identify the typical threats, issues and challenges that may arise in undertaking and completing the construction of an Indian hospitality project. The hospitality industry all over the world is very vast and requires more attention to...
A look at Future Group
Presentation - 66 pages - Business strategy
Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited is India's leading retailer that operates multiple retail formats in both the value and lifestyle segment. Pantaloon has ushered a retail revolution in India and its founder Kishore Biyani is known as India's "King of Retail". Headquartered in Mumbai...
TATA Steel: Bearings division
Thesis - 40 pages - Business strategy
The Bearings Market in India has a very strong foundation though it is not that visible. TATA Bearings the subsidiary of TATA Steel is one of the largest bearing manufacturers in Eastern India and the fourth largest in the country. It is situated in Kharagpur, 117km from Kolkata. TATA Bearings is...
Ma Foi Management Consultants Ltd
Thesis - 25 pages - Business strategy
Ma Foi is the best HR service provider in India. This company was founded by Mr. K. Pandia Rajan in 1992. Since then the company is rendering the best HR services full fledged. In the year 2004 it was acquired by world's third largest HR company Vedior NV based of Netherlands. This acquisition...
A quick look at SAIL (Steel Authority of India)
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
Incorporated in 1973, the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) is a giant among the steel majors in India. It is the largest steel conglomerate in the country and the world's ninth-largest steelmaker. It manages and operates five integrated steel plants at Bhilai, Madhya Pradesh; Bokaro, Bihar;...
A study on jeans: A C Nielsen USA
Tutorials/exercises - 51 pages - Business strategy
Jeans are trousers traditionally made from denim, but may also be made from a variety of fabrics including corduroy. Originally work clothes; they became popular among teenagers starting in the 1950s. Historic brands include Levi's, Jordache and Wrangler. Today jeans are a very popular form...
A look at Religare Securities Ltd
Case study - 29 pages - Business strategy
Apparently nothing but change is stable in the world, which interestingly offers both - opportunities and challenges. Change is an exciting opportunity to reposition oneself because of the survival crisis created by unanticipated change or the excitement offer by the unfolding of new caverns of...
Working capital management - published: 06/04/2009
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
Working capital is defined as the excess of current assets over liabilities. Current assets are those assets which will be converted in to cash within the current accounting period or with in the next year as a result of the ordinary operation of the business. They are cash or near cash...
Overview of the IPCL (Indian Petrochemical Corporation Limited)
Dissertation - 49 pages - Business strategy
IPCL, Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited, is a pioneering petrochemicals company in India and was incorporated on 22 March 1969. It is a leading integrated manufacturer of polymers, synthetic fibers & fiber intermediates & chemical products from hydrocarbon feed stock. They also...
All you wanted to know about Six Sigma
Tutorials/exercises - 39 pages - Business strategy
Six Sigma can be used to create a brand new business process from ground up. Six Sigma strives for perfection. It allows for only 3.4 defects per million opportunities for each product or service transaction. Six Sigma relies heavily on statistical techniques to reduce defects and measure...
Virgin Mobiles
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
In the mobile market, Virgin mobile is a unique player based on its business model and strategy. It is the only service provider which does not hold any bandwidth and mobile setup infrastructure but uses Tata Teleservices spectrum and is penetrating the market based totally on its branding and...
Indian pharmaceutical industry
Market study - 9 pages - Business strategy
The Indian Pharmaceuticals sector has come a long way, being almost non-existent during 1970, to a prominent provider of health care products, meeting almost 95% of country's pharmaceutical needs. London research company Global Insight estimates that India's share of the global generics market...
Research on customer satisfaction for the services of Hutchison-Essar
Case study - 25 pages - Business strategy
After the globalization of the Indian economy in 1991 the tele communication sector remained one of the most happening sectors in India. The recent years witnesses rapid and dramatic changes in the field of tele communications. In the last few years more and more companies both foreign, domestic,...
An overview of the Indian cigarette industry
Market study - 29 pages - Business strategy
The Cigarette Industry is one of the oldest industries in India (almost 100 years old). It is an important agro-based industry. It is highly labor intensive and provides livelihood to about thirty million people directly and indirectly. India's tobacco industry is one of the largest in the...
The Indian television broadcasting industry
Market study - 43 pages - Business strategy
The Indian Entertainment and Media Industry has out-performed the Indian economy and is one of the fastest growing sectors in India. It is rising on the back of economic growth and razing income levels that India has been experiencing in the past years. This is significantly benefiting the...
The concept of loyalty and identifying the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty (Tesco)
Dissertation - 75 pages - Business strategy
Traditionally, marketing has focused on market shares and customer acquisition rather than on retaining existing customers and on building long-lasting relationships with them (Kotler, 2003). More recently, however, market share has been gradually losing its revered status as marketing's holy...
The changing face of consumer behavior in response to organized retail markets in India
Tutorials/exercises - 33 pages - Business strategy
The retail sector in the developing countries is witnessing a huge revamping exercise as traditional markets make way for new formats such as departmental stores, hypermarkets, supermarkets and specialty stores. Rated the fifth most attractive emerging retail market, India is being seen as a...
Looking at how and where CRM can help an organization
Thesis - 26 pages - Business strategy
CRM is an integrated effort to identify, maintain, and build up a network with individual consumers and to continuously strengthen the network for mutual benefit of both sides, through interactive, individualized and value-added contacts over a period of time. The core theme of all CRM is its...
A study on customer relationship management
Tutorials/exercises - 58 pages - Business strategy
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of those magnificent concepts that swept the business world in the 1990's with the promise of forever changing the way businesses, small and large, interacted with their customer bases. In the short term, however, it proved to be an unwieldy process...
Innovations in the restaurant business
Thesis - 29 pages - Business strategy
The paper deals with the brand related issues in the restaurant industry and is an attempt to highlight the image and identify trends in the restaurants industry. It highlight the various efforts and initiatives taken by restaurants worldwide to improve on their brands to remain competitive....
Reva: An alliance between Maini Group and AEV LLC Inc.
Thesis - 38 pages - Business strategy
REVA electric car company is a joint venture between the Bangalore based Maini group and AEV LLC Inc. of USA. Other companies, world leaders in their respective fields, have also partnered with Maini and AEV LLC Inc to design and develop key components for the REVA. Today the Maini Group has on...
Outsourcing: Why companies do it?
Thesis - 34 pages - Business strategy
According to Wikipedia, Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) is a form of outsourcing, including legal process outsourcing. These are both high-value-added forms of business processing outsourcing (BPO). KPO firms provide domain-based processes and business expertise, rather than just process...
A Study on customer satisfaction towards Cipla products
Market study - 40 pages - Business strategy
Satisfaction is an important element in the evaluation stage. Satisfaction refers to the buyer's state of being adequately rewarded in a buying situation for the sacrifice he has made. Once the customers purchase and use the product they may then either be satisfy or dissatisfied. Today's market...
A closer look at transportation in India
Thesis - 25 pages - Business strategy
Transportation is the movement of products from one node in the distribution channel to another. By providing for the swift and uninterrupted flow of products back and forward through the distribution channel, transportation provides companies distinct markets on an equal footing. Transportation...
