This book is a collection of award winning case studies, presented for an all india competition conducted by dalmia research programme, iit, delhi. The case studies, coupled with theoretical inputs, relate to the real organizational situations faced by managers. The cases have been classified into the areas of strategic management, financial management and operation/organization management. The analysis of cases offers a significant value addition to the readers.about the authorprof. Prem vrat, director, iit roorkee, prof. K k ahuja, senior director, gujarat heavy chemicals limited, p k jian, department of management studies, iit delhitable of contents 1.emerging chinese case of konka group company limited 2.miles to go??? 3.core competence and flexibility-based a case study of hcl 4.food processing industry in for pepsico 5.the enigma of an application of theory of contraints for the formulation of strategic initiative 6.system dynamics of i