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CSL: Rebranding “The Biggest Company No One’s Ever Heard Of" - Teaching Note
Bertrand Guillotin; Sheri Lambert; Phoebe DickinsonTeaching Note IVEY-W34630-EMarketing, StrategyThis is the Teaching note for product W34093.Starting at €0.00
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Ashby Pharmaceuticals
Muñoz-Cobo, Diego; Villanueva, JulianCase M-1208MarketingJames Conica acababa de ser contratado como nuevo director de ventas de la empresa Ashby Pharmaceuticals, dedicada a la venta de productos farmacéuticos; con el objetivo de mejorar sustancialmente el rendimiento de la fuerza comercial, que en opinión del director de la compañía, Ian Thompson, tenía un amplio margen de mejora.Starting at €8.20
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Showrooming at Best Buy (Spanish version)
Teixeira, Thales S.; Watkins, Elizabeth AnneCase HBS-519S19MarketingBest Buy is a consumer electronics retailer with nearly 2,000 stores worldwide. In 2012, the rising popularity of price-matching apps for mobile phones made price differences between retailers transparent, online and offline. Shoppers' desire to test electronics first-hand before purchase drove them to use Best Buy stores as "showrooms" to see new products and then search for better deals on their smartphones. This case examines how brick-and-mor...Starting at €8.20
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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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AGL: An Electric Utility Dealing with Disruptive Innovation
Tom Houghton; Philip SugaiCase IVEY-9B16A036-EMarketing, StrategyAGL Energy, a long-time traditional energy supply company in Australia, was facing competition as alternative sources of energy, such as solar power and batteries, were taking root in both the marketplace and with energy-conscious homeowners. The trend of homeowners who opted to supply their own energy needs and go off the grid was described as a “death spiral” for utility companies. In response, AGL Energy appointed a new chief executive officer...Starting at €8.20
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Salty Snacks
John DawesExercise IVEY-9B10A015-EMarketingThe Salty Snacks case is a data analysis exercise using Excel. The case uses real data from a consumer goods panel. It presents the student with a table of purchase duplications for a set of salty snack brands, and the student's task is to identify the competitive structure of the market, that is, which brands compete more intensely with each other. The task is similar to what brand managers in consumer goods companies face on a regular basis. Th...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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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
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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