Business Case Studies: Recent submissions

  • LIGHT ENGINEERING WORKS (B) 
    Khan W M (NO, )
    This case provides a sequel to case A LUMS No. 23-001-89-1.
  • LIGHT ENGINEERING WORKS (A) 
    Abid S; Khan W M (YES, )
    This case deals with the basic concept of break-even or profitability analysis. Students are expected to calculate some profit numbers based on the assumptions made by the decision maker, as well as for the worst case ...
  • MOBILINK (A): THE EID PRE-PAYMENTS DECISION 
    Sheikh SE (YES, )
    A joint team of the Commercial and Technical Divisions at Mobilink, including their Directors, had to finalise the pre-payments capacity allocation for the nearing Eid-ul-Azha holiday. Transaction volumes peaked to 30-40% ...
  • THE INFORMAL ECONOMY OF PAKISTAN 
    Shahid MS (YES, )
    This note is written in the context of the growing interest in the informal economy of Pakistan in the academic spheres and at the policy level. After an introductory overview of the conceptual framework of the informal ...
  • MONITORING AND EVALUATION IN THE PUNJAB HEALTH DEPARTMENT 
    Rana A (YES, )
    This case is about the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system in the Punjab Department of Health (DOH). There are two major arrangements for collecting data on the performance of Primary and Secondary Health Care facilities ...
  • PROGRESSIVE CARBONS LIMITED- THE FIRST TEN YEARS 
    Khan W M (YES, )
    This case focuses on the entrepreneur and the opportunity as two important elements in the entrepreneurial venture creation process. Students get to evaluate the entrepreneur and his way of recognizing and exploiting ...
  • NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING (NIBGE): MUTANT SPIDER-COTTON 
    Kamran Ali Chatha (YES, )
    The case illustrates a crop variety development and registration process employed in Pakistan, and provides an account of the enablers and challenges faced by a public sector biotechnology based R&D organization, while ...
  • UDL DISTRIBUTION (A): “IT - ENABLING” A SALES FORCE 
    Sheikh SE (YES, )
    The Sales Director of a nationwide, family owned, Rs 4.6 billion pharmaceuticals distributor, UDL Distribution, is faced with the decision of replacing the sales forces’ manual order-booking with one using handheld devices. ...
  • MONITORING AND EVALUATION IN THE PUNJAB HEALTH DEPARTMENT 
    Rana A (YES, )
    This case is about the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system in the Punjab Department of Health (DOH). There are two major arrangements for collecting data on the performance of Primary and Secondary Health Care facilities ...
  • STYLES & TRENDS- THE START-UP DECISION 
    Khan W M; Riaz A (YES, )
    This case follows events from the germination of an entrepreneurial venture by three LUMS graduates to the time that they actually set up a stitching unit. It gives personality profiles of the three partners and the market ...
  • UDL DISTRIBUTION (C): “IT - ENABLING” A SALES FORCE 
    Sheikh SE (YES, )
    NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION WITHOUT CRC DIRECTOR APPROVAL) The Sales Director of a nationwide, family owned, Rs 4.6 billion pharmaceuticals distributor, UDL Distribution, is faced with the decision of replacing the sales ...
  • CARE LAHORE: EVALUATION AND BEYOND 
    Mansoor SM; Haque E (YES, )
    Ms Neelum Mumtaz (Director Academics CARE Foundation) and Area Managers Mr Imran Shaukat and Ms Mahreen Mahmood are in a meeting discussing the first draft of an evaluation report on CARE. The report has been prepared by ...
  • PACE (PAKISTAN) LIMITED 
    Hassan S Z; Shami S (YES, )
    The case describes the manner in which a retail department store, Pace (Pakistan) Limited, decided to use a computer based system. In this process it had to set up various industry related processes for the first time. ...
  • CARE LAHORE: EVALUATION AND BEYOND 
    Mansoor SM; Haque E (YES, )
    Ms Neelum Mumtaz (Director Academics CARE Foundation) and Area Managers Mr Imran Shaukat and Ms Mahreen Mahmood are in a meeting discussing the first draft of an evaluation report on CARE. The report has been prepared by ...
  • SYED BHAIS (PVT) LIMITED 
    Hassan S Z; Shami S (YES, )
    The case deals with a situation in which an established precision engineering manufacturing firm was entering a new business venture. In the past, the firm had dealt with the OEM and institutional buyer markets, but the ...
  • PAKISTAN'S STRUGGLE AGAINST CORRUPTION 
    Shehzad CT (YES, )
  • PROGRESSIVE CARBONS- THE BUSINESS PLAN 
    Khan W M (YES, )
    The PC business plan was used to introduce the business plan prepared in anticipation of seeking equity or debt financing. The plan was actually prepared by the entrepreneurs themselves. The case is particularly useful if ...
  • TELESEHAT CAPITALIZING ON TELEMEDICINE IN PAKISTAN (A) 
    Bilal Farooq; Syed Zahoor Hassan (YES, )
    This case illustrates the use of innovation process by a technology company, Comcept, to build a profitable telemedicine start-up in Pakistan, where previous efforts in telemedicine were rudimentary and philanthropic. It ...
  • FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF PAKISTAN 
    Ikram Z (YES, )
  • THE ROLE OF THE LAW AND THE POLICE IN PERPETUATING HONOUR KILLINGS IN PAKISTAN 
    Shah S (NO, )
    Since the inception of Pakistan in August 1947, the principle of mitigation in common law has often been manipulated to promote honour killings, but with the Islamization of the laws in Pakistan in the 1980s, Islamic law ...

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