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    • Shiromani Seeds Company 

      Singh, Gurdev (2010-08-12)
      This case gives the detailed plan for launching a seed business and raising bank loan for the venture. The focus of discussion is the overall feasibility of the venture with emphasis on technical and financial viability.

    • Workforce Management for Seed Production Activity 

      Singh, Gurdev; Asokan, S. R. (2010-08-12)
      This note emphasises the importance of and process of arriving at workforce requirements, their qualifications, recruitment, training and retention to achieve efficiency in quality seed production.

    • Training Needs of Seed Growers and Organizers 

      Singh, Gurdev; Asokan, S. R. (2010-08-12)
      This note after describing seed growers and organizers identifies the need for their training for smooth implementation of seed production programme by a seed enterprise. The focus is to develop skills for the quality seed ...

    • National Seeds Project 

      Singh, Gurdev; Asokan, S. R. (2010-08-12)
      This note gives the coverage under different phases of National Seed Project. It reveals a marked shift from first two phases where the idea was to create a nationwide structure of seed organizations to revitalizing the ...

    • National Agro-Processing Enterprise Limited 

      Singh, Gurdev (2010-08-12)
      This case deals with the problems of procurement of raw material faced by an oilseeds processing company under the competitive environment. The competitors are medium to large private and cooperative seed enterprises. The ...

    • Universal Seed Enterprise 

      Singh, Gurdev (2010-08-12)
      The case deals with the decision to raise funds from the channel to finance distribution of seeds through advance booking. The idea is to understand what for marketing finance is needed in input distribution and under what ...

    • Forecasting Bank Credit Through Extrapolation Methods 

      Gupta, G. S.; Mallikarjun, M. (2010-08-12)

    • RRB Turns Around: A Case of MPGB 

      Desai, Bhupat M.; Namboodiri, N. V. (2010-08-12)
      This case deals with the anatomy of turn around and how it was achieved by MPGB through changes in macro policies and organizational arrangements within a bank. It moreover provides data to analyse questions that are raised ...

    • Strategic Options for Improving Viability of Rural Banking by XYZ Bank 

      Desai, Bhupat M.; Naik, Gopal; Bhattacharjee, Sourindra (2010-08-12)
      Viability of rural financial institutions especially the nationalized commercial banks, is a top of debate among academicians and practitioners. With the fulfillment of prudential norms, most of the banks have incurred ...

    • The Great Eastern Shipping Company 

      Dixit, Mukund R.; Raghuram, G. (2010-08-12)
      Great Eastern Shipping Company (GESCO) was the second largest Indian shipping company, operating 48 ships. During 1994-95, GESCO had a turnover of Rs. 824.67 crore. The company had more than tripled its turnover over the ...

    • National Semiconductor Company: Module Manufacturing Unit 

      Chandra, Pankaj (2010-08-12)
      National Semiconductor Co. is unable to meet the growing demand of the customers in spite of having adequate, production capacity. The manufacturing manager is trying to develop a planning system that will schedule production ...

    • The Production-Distribution Dilemma 

      Chandra, Pankaj (2010-08-12)
      This exercise illustrates the role of coordinated decision making in a supply chain. It can be used to determine the benefits of coordination and for evaluating the impact of production decisions on distribution and vice-versa.

    • Automation at an SBI Branch 

      Bhatnagar, Subhash C. (2010-08-12)

    • Fresh Fruits Processing Private Limited (FFPL) 

      Bhattacharjee, Sourindra; Desai, Bhupat M. (2010-08-12)
      FFPL is a partnershio company floated by two groups which have complementary operations for fresh fruits marketing and processing. It perceive export opportunities for fruits to European and Middle East markets and hence ...

    • Times of India: Using Information Technology for Competitive Advantage 

      Bhatnagar, Subhash C.; Ranganathan, C. (2010-08-12)
      This case describes how computerization helped in solving the problems and complexities of the manual systems of the Times of India organization. It discusses a major effort by the centralized IT department to develop and ...

    • Prudential Fruit Processing Company 

      Bapna, S. L.; Singh, Gurdev; Seetharaman, S. P. (2010-08-12)
      The case reflects on the problems of a large tomato paste plant in the raw material procurement from contract growers. The company is confronted with the constraints of international tomato paste price and high domestic ...

    • Seed Production by Cooperatives 

      Singh, Gurdev; Asokan, S. R. (2010-08-12)
      This case describes the functioning of a cooperative which has undertaken potato seed marketing for its members. It helps the member growers in quality seed production. The relevant issues are the reasons for success of ...

    • Tata Chemicals Limited 

      Venkiteswaran, N. (2010-08-12)

    • The Case of TV Network 

      Tripathy, A. (2010-08-12)

    • Deccan Sugars and Chemicals 

      Venkiteswaran, N. (2010-08-12)