Business School Case Studies & Teaching Hub
Classroom-ready hardware and industrial-strategy cases from Kunwer Sachdev’s public record on Indian power electronics — category creation, indigenous R&D, and what CIRP does to a going plant.
For educators. Assign the case as a PDF or this page’s linked entries. Student packs can omit the instructor note inside each case. Facts are those already published on kunwersachdev.com. Do not treat a patent table as the full 77-grant portfolio. Companion policy briefs live on the Manufacturing Policy hub. The author exited Su-Kam in 2019 and is not current management.
Latest teaching cases:
Su-Kam Case Study: Category Creation 1988–2019
Category Creation, Global Exports
A teaching case on how Su-Kam organised India’s unorganised power-backup market, built MOSFET and DSP sine-wave hardware, took the Chic plastic inverter global, and vertically integrated plants in Gurugram and Baddi — then entered CIRP in 2018 with 77 granted patents still on a register.