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Apple Watch: Managing Innovation Resistance
Tania Bucic; Gaganpreet SinghCase IVEY-9B18A005-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyHaving affirmed its place in the computer, phone, and music markets, Apple Inc. (Apple) decided to embark on a brand extension strategy, shifting its focus to wearable technologies. With this shift in mind, Apple launched the Apple Watch in April 2015 as an attempt to enter different industries. Apple Watch integrated fitness and health features with Apple’s mobile operating system (iOS) and other Apple products and services. Because Apple owned ...Starting at €8.20
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Rodan + Fields Dermatologists
Narayandas, Das; Roberts, Michael; Kind, LizCase HBS-513067-EMarketingThe case focuses on issues involved in managing the direct multilevel marketing sales consultants who sell R+F skin care products. The company is trying to better manage the inconsistent and highly variable recruitment behavior of the sales force i.e., the degree to which existing consultants recruit new consultants. The company utilizes a range of periodic incentives for recruitment, but hopes to build a system of salesforce compensation and man...Starting at €8.20
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CSL: Rebranding “The Biggest Company No One’s Ever Heard Of"
Bertrand Guillotin; Sheri Lambert; Phoebe DickinsonCase IVEY-W34093-EDecision Analysis, MarketingIn October 2021, the head of digital communications and branding at the Australian biopharmaceutical conglomerate CSL Limited (CSL), was tasked with a strategic rebranding exercise. By August 2022, he and other stakeholders felt a sense of pride and satisfaction at how quickly the rebranding initiatives had been completed. CSL felt that it had achieved the desired brand associations and met its targeted brand net promoter score performance. Looki...Starting at €8.20
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L’Abode Accommodations Down Under: Agile Leadership Navigates Pandemic Threat to Business Survival
Dennis Paris; Sheri Lambert; Jennifer M. Sundstrom-FitzgeraldCase IVEY-W26692-EMarketing, StrategyOn March 1, 2020, when news of the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, it meant an existential threat to the survival of businesses internationally. L’Abode Accommodations, a full-service property management company based in Sydney, Australia that specialized in mid- to high-end luxury vacation homes, was no exception. Virtually overnight, the company experienced an alarming number of contract cancellations. To make matters worse for an industry dependent...Starting at €8.20
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Keep: Commercializing China’s Mobile Fitness Unicorn
Xiaojun Fan; Xin LiCase IVEY-W25559-EMarketing, StrategyRecent years had witnessed the social phenomenon of the rise of Internet brands. Looking at Internet fitness unicorn brand Keep’s brand commercialization process, Keep demonstrated the path of creation, product adjustment and upgrade, and brand extension logic of Internet app brands. Keep started as a single-tool app providing exercise content and data records, and gradually developed into a one-stop fitness and exercise platform by actively adju...Starting at €8.20
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Global Wine War 2009: New World versus Old, Teaching Note
Bartlett, Christopher A.Teaching Note HBS-910412-EMarketingTeaching Note for [910405].Starting at €0.00