The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) had been given the task of constructing a Software Technology Park
(STP) by the Chief Minister Punjab. The STP was a project of national importance with a budgeted cost of ...
Faruki Pulp Mills was a joint venture between a Finnish consulting firm and local sponsors comprising a group of four businessmen and industrialists. Salim A Faruki, the CEO was reviewing the impact of decisions regarding ...
H Karim Buksh was a medium-sized firm in the retailing business. In September 1987, Karim Buksh, the Managing Director was confronted with important strategic decisions regarding pricing and refund policies of the company. ...
The Production Manager of Lahore Cycle Industry began an assessment of whether the company should make seat lugs, a bicycle part, or buy them from outside suppliers. He would have to schedule the production runs or the ...
The case allows an analysis of employee turnover. The immediate issue at the mills was whether the Director, Ashraf Silk should re-employ the two weavers who had left his company. The weavers had left despite being paid ...
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the national flag carrier airline of Pakistan, registered record revenues of Rs 107 billion in its financial year ending December 2010. Although its operating revenue steadily increased ...
Delafone International, a telecommunications company based in Denmark, was preparing a bid for cellular mobile licences in Pakistan. Harris Scott, the CEO of the mobile unit of Delafone and Ammar Ahmed, a financial ...
The case highlights the issues related to improving quality in a Pakistani manufacturing environment. It also introduces the cultural changes that are needed to bring in Total Quality Management thinking.
This background note can be used to explain the Provincial Finance Commission Awards in light of the following perspectives: (a) The Constitutions and Functions of PFCs, (b) The Evolution of PFC Awards (c) Vertical and ...
The case deals with increasing production line capacity by removing a bottleneck. The Senior Planning Engineer at Lahore Cycle Industries was under continuing pressure from the marketing department to increase production ...
This case deals with a bottleneck in increasing production line capacity. Cycles with steel rims required considerably more assembly time than cycles with plastic rims, and the marketing department wanted simultaneous ...
The note adopts the Socratic method of questioning to explore the foundations of finance, time value of money and public sector capital budgeting. It consists of three dialogues between Socrates and Fischer Black, where ...
Service Sales Corporation (SSC) is the largest Shoe Retail organization in Pakistan. Since its incorporation in 1959 it has had a sales force incentive plan that had a low monthly salary (less than 10% of take-home) and ...
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) case introduces students to the banking sector in an emerging economy: Pakistan. While it allows students to quantitatively value a bank which is up for sale, it is particularly useful to ...
This note attempts to provide initial guidance to non-profit managers in Pakistan with regards to the financial management of endowment funds. In order to provide this guidance, two US based endowment funds have been ...
Ravi Enterprises (Pvt) Limited - a fully integrated manufacturer of cotton garments received an order for 40,000 rugby shirts from a major retailer in Germany. A week after production started, the Chairman, Asad Farooq, ...
Riaz, an MBA student of a private university in Lahore was looking at the financial statements of The Citizen Foundation (TCF). TCF was a non-profit organization involved in providing educational services for the poor ...
Lahore-based family business HKB operated a chain of large department stores. It was well known for its large store format (40,000 square feet, and 3,000 SKUs) located in two posh areas of the city. Concerned by increased ...