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Brighter Smiles for the Masses--Colgate vs. P&G (Spanish version)
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Yao, Dennis; Azevedo Jorge, FilipaCase HBS-707S33StrategyIn 2000, Procter & Gamble Co. introduced Crest Whitestrips, a new, revolutionary product that allowed consumers to whiten their teeth at home. With Whitestrips, P&G created an entire new category in oral care, worth $460 million in 2002. Whitestrips sent P&G's main competitor in oral care, Colgate Palmolive Co., scrambling because several patents protected the strips, making it difficult for Colgate to copy the invention. But in September 2002, t...Starting at €8.20
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The Black List, Teaching Plan
McGee, Henry W.; McAra, SarahTeaching Note HBS-317087-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching plan supplement to 317027.Starting at €0.00
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Brighter Smiles for the Masses--Colgate vs. P&G, Teaching Note
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Yao, DennisTeaching Note HBS-707545-EStrategyTeaching note to 706435.Starting at €0.00
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Winning (and Losing) the Olympics: Boston 2024 (A)
Fubini, David G.; Bernstein, Ethan S.; Saadine, Mark; McAra, Sarah; Barnett, JamesCase HBS-418024-ELeadership and People ManagementTwo leadership groups from Boston 2024 negotiate with government bodies, community leaders, and olympic officials in an effort to bring the 2024 Olympics to Boston.Starting at €8.20
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Lobbying for Love Southwest Airlines and the Wright Amendment, Teaching Note
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Yao, DennisTeaching Note HBS-707536-EStrategyTeaching note to 707470.Starting at €0.00
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Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading, Teaching Note
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Yao, DennisTeaching Note HBS-707537-EEconomicsTeaching note to 707494.Starting at €0.00
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The Black List
McGee, Henry W.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-317027-EEntrepreneurshipFranklin Leonard founded The Black List in 2005 as an innovative approach to identifying potential hit movie scripts via crowdsourcing. As the annual Black List proved to hold the scripts of some of Hollywood's most successful films, from "Slumdog Millionaire" to "Spotlight," it became widely respected and highly anticipated throughout the industry. In 2012, Leonard uses the momentum to bring The Black List online as a database where unproduced s...Starting at €8.20
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The $70K CEO at Gravity Payments
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Norton, Michael I.; Norris, Michael; McAra, SarahCase HBS-816010-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2015, Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price took a massive pay cut to raise the minimum wage at his company to $70,000 annually. In the wake of a national discussion of wage equality, he was met with cheers and jeers. The company hoped that the buzz from the unorthodox move would generate enough new business to cover the increasing costs of compensation. Did Price make the right move? Would Gravity thrive or even survive?Starting at €8.20
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ShotSpotter
Weiss, Mitchell B.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-817034-EEntrepreneurshipSST offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States, and a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business to government sales model, and the company had been focused on expanding to new cities. But Ralph Clark, President and CEO, was also interested in investigating new services. Mass shootings, in U.S. schools to cities abroad, were consistently followed...Starting at €8.20
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Propel
Weiss, Mitchell B.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-818008-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the burdensome process of accessing benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. They first designed a mobile site called Easy Food Stamps...Starting at €8.20