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Target: Responding to the Recession
Gulati, Ranjay; Lal, Rajiv; Ross, CatherineCase HBS-510016-EMarketingWithin 10 months of Gregg Steinhafel's taking over as CEO at Target, the U.S. was mired in the most significant economic downturn in 50 years. Top competitor Wal-Mart had positioned itself well for the crisis, while Target's same store sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and...Starting at €8.20
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Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Gupta, Sunil; Herman, KerryCase HBS-511002-EMarketingTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In September 2010, faced with increasing threat from social game companies such as Zynga, Ben Feder, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software. Inc., had to decide the long-term strategy of his video-game company. As a publisher of traditional video games for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo, Take-Two had several popular video games, such as Grand Theft Auto, to its credi...Starting at €8.20
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Target: Responding to the Recession (Spanish Version)
Gulati, Ranjay; Lal, Rajiv; Ross, CatherineCase HBS-515S02MarketingDentro de los 10 meses de Gregg Steinhafel de tomar el cargo de CEO en Target, los EE.UU. estaba sumida en la recesión económica más importante en 50 años. Principal competidor de Wal-Mart había posicionado bien para la crisis, mientras que las ventas mismas tiendas de Target comenzó a deslizarse. Mientras Steinhafel cree que la estrategia y posicionamiento a largo plazo de Target tenían razón, reflexionó un conjunto de retos estratégicos y opera...Starting at €8.20
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Ron Johnson: Retail at Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney
Narayandas, Das; Herman, Kerry; Mazzanti, LisaCase HBS-513103-EMarketingTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures from J.C. Penney's traditional retail approach, and enacted changes quickly and simultaneously, with little ma...Starting at €8.20
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Cycle for Survival (A)
Narayandas, Das; Herman, Kerry; Fisher, NoahCase HBS-514076-EMarketingKatie Kotkins, director of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's (MSKCC) Cycle for Survival fundraising event, had to determine the best avenue for continuing the event's success and momentum after its founder, Jennifer (Jen) Goodman Linn (HBS '99) passed away from MFH sarcoma. Jen and her husband, David Linn (HBS '00), had founded Cycle for Survival in 2007 as a way for Jen to give back to the community of doctors that had treated her since h...Starting at €8.20
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Cycle for Survival (B)
Narayandas, Das; Herman, Kerry; Fisher, NoahCase HBS-514077-EMarketingUpdate on Cycle for Survival's 2012, 2013, and 2014 events. Kotkins and Cycle for Survival continued the event's strong growth, and underwent the first phase of a two-year rebranding effort.Starting at €5.74
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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (A) (Spanish Version)
Fournier, Susan; Winig, Laura; Herman, Kerry; Wojnicki, AndreaCase HBS-504S35MarketingMartha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO), una empresa de contenidos y los medios de comunicación de marca e integrado dedicado a "elevar el papel del ama de casa", se hizo pública el 19 de octubre de 1999, la creación de una empresa con un valor de mercado de $ 1,73 mil millones y una participación de Stewart vale $ 1,2 mil millones. Aretha Jackson, presidente de una firma de inversión privada, el mosto de aconsejar a un cliente sobre la convenienc...Starting at €8.20
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Mobile Banking (Spanish version)
Gupta, Sunil; Herman, KerryCase HBS-511S10MarketingIn January 2010, Jen McDonald, head of Bank of America Corporation's (BoA) Digital Marketing group, was discussing the bank's mobile strategy with Douglas Brown, senior vice president, Mobile Product Development. BoA launched mobile banking in 2007 and within three years it had 4 million active customers. This success prompted line-of-business managers to request Jen and Doug to include more functionality in the bank's mobile app that were specif...Starting at €8.20
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Transforming AMFAM
Khurana, Rakesh; Lal, Rajiv; Ross, CatherineCase HBS-508081-EMarketingTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. On a winter day in December 2007 at the American Family Mutual Insurance Company (AMFAM) headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, Dave Anderson and Jack Salzwedel remained in the conference room after the senior management meeting had concluded. Anderson, CEO of AMFAM since January 2007 and Salzwedel, named President in August 2006, reflected together on how far the company had c...Starting at €8.20