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Rabobank Corporate Netherlands: Turning the Smartphone into an Engine of Bottom-Line Growth
Stremersch, Stefan; Camacho, NunoCase M-1286-EMarketingSet in late 2011, this case study enables the discussion of a bank's possibilities to develop new business amid drastic technological and macroeconomic changes promising to revolutionize the whole payment value chain. In particular, several emerging technologies - such as near-field communication (NFC) - promised to turn mobile payments into a trillion-dollar industry in a period of less than five years. The case invites students to step into the...Starting at €8.20
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Global Branding and Advertising (Spanish version)
Quelch, John A.Case HBS-503S51MarketingHeineken managers are evaluating the results of the research projects designed to identify the values of the Heineken brand and to translate these into effective advertising messages.Starting at €8.20
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Rebranding DSM: Creating Sustainable Shared Value
Steve Muylle; Niraj DawarCase IVEY-9B15A039-EMarketing, StrategyDSM, a global life sciences, business-to-business company, is in the midst of a massive multi-year corporate rebranding exercise to incorporate the concept of creating sustainable shared value. With few precedents in this industry, the company must develop its own processes and implementation. Students are challenged to define the next steps in the rebranding, including the promotion of DSM’s sustainability positioning as its key differentiator....Starting at €8.20
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Marketing the HealthSuite Digital Platform (Spanish version)
Quelch, John A.; Rodriguez, Margaret L.Case HBS-519S03MarketingIn June 2014, leading healthcare and consumer technology company, Royal Philips ("Philips"), announced its HealthSuite Digital Platform to house healthcare data and enable applications used by physicians and patients. Philips had strong equity in the healthcare technology space, due to its extensive portfolio of medical devices and related software sold primarily to hospitals. Philips designed the first two apps for the platform (eCareCoordinator...Starting at €8.20
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Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef
Alvarez, Jose B.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-515001-EMarketingDr. Mark Post and his team at Maastricht University were perfecting their tissue culture beef product-made entirely from muscle grown in his lab-to give it the same taste, texture and appearance of a traditional beef hamburger. A previous iteration of this product had been taste tested live, with good results, and Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, had provided Post with much of the funding to make the burgers. The next step was to form an inde...Starting at €8.20
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Caesar IT Services: Comercializar múltiples propuestas de valor en una sola empresa
Stremersch, Stefan; Bellezza, SilviaCase M-1227Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementCaesar Group, una empresa de servicios informáticos profesionales, competía en el mercado holandés de tecnología de la información desde 1993. La propuesta de valor inicial de la empresa consistía en ofrecer a sus clientes una capacidad humana cualificada (puesta a disposición de capital humano, o body-shopping) a un precio económico por hora o día. La reacción de la compañía a la creciente evolución del servicio de body-shopping fue formular pro...Starting at €8.20
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Caesar IT Services: Marketing Multiple Value Propositions in One Firm
Stremersch, Stefan; Bellezza, SilviaCase M-1227-EMarketing, Service and Operations ManagementCaesar, a professional IT services firm, has competed in the Dutch IT market since 1993. Its initial value proposition was providing its customers with qualified human capacity at a low hourly or daily rate (often referred to as "body-shopping"). To escape the increasing commoditization of this type of service, the company formulated a new value proposition in 2003, so called TimeValue projects, consisting of the delivery of complete IT projects,...Starting at €8.20
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Rituals: Enrich Your Life
Nueno, José Luis; del Castillo J.I.Case M-1176-EInformation Technologies, MarketingRituals, an innovative concept in the area of home and body cosmetics, was born within the European Home and Personal Care (HPC) division of Unilever. In 2003 the company faced several challenges as it prepared to roll out its brand to other European nations, reconsider its distribution channels or find financial resources or partners to boost growth. The case first describes the creative process behind the build-up of the Rituals brand and the c...Starting at €8.20
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Toon: Enecos's Smart Platform for Selling Less Energy to the Home
Steve Muylle; Niraj DawarCase IVEY-9B18A065-EMarketing, StrategyEneco Group, the second largest utility company in the Netherlands, launched a smart thermostat, Toon, that served as a platform for energy management services. Toon quickly became the gold standard for smart homes in the Netherlands. In January 2017, top management needed to discuss the strategic priorities to keep Toon’s lead and hold off the competition.Starting at €8.20
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Philips Healthcare: Marketing the HealthSuite Digital Platform, Teaching Note
Quelch, John A.Teaching Note HBS-515113-EMarketingTeaching note for case 515052.Starting at €0.00