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Brand Israel: Marketing in Crisis
Ilan Alon; Rommey Hassman; Meredith Lohwasser; Jennifer DugoshCase IVEY-9B13A016-EMarketing, StrategyIsrael had experienced great change since its founding in 1948 to become arguably the most prosperous nation in the Middle East. With the exception of the United States and more recently China, Israel had more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any other. It spent a larger percentage of its budget on research and development than any other country in the world. Multinational companies like Intel, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Motorola, Mitsubishi, H...Starting at €8.20
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Israeli Wines in China: Reaching for New Heights
Ilan Alon; Jennifer Dugosh; Meredith LohwasserCase IVEY-9B14M006-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn 2012, Golan Heights Wines wanted to take advantage of the Chinese market. In recent years, China had demonstrated incredible growth in the wine market. Consumers’ growing interest in wine products had made wineries and vineyards like Golan Heights hungry for entry. The CEO of Golan Heights Winery had gone to China with her products in 2009. She had chosen distributorships as the mode of entry because of their expertise and experience in the Ch...Starting at €8.20
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Marks and Spencer Enters China
Jane Menzies; Ilan Alon; Jennifer DugoshCase IVEY-9B12A036-EMarketing, StrategyMarks and Spencer (M&S) had first ventured into international markets 70 years ago. By 2012, M&S had 337 stores in 41 countries. Although M&S saw itself as a U.K. retailer that exported its products, the company had been attempting to reduce its dependency on the U.K. economic cycle. Its goal was to increase international sales from £800 million to £1.0 billion by 2013/14. By 2020, M&S wanted to be an international, multi-channel retailer. When t...Starting at €8.20
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Holding Fast (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Lutz, Robert A.; Christensen, Clayton M.; Wittes, Jason; Galakatos, Nick; Gourville, John T.Article HBS-R0506A-EMarketingCEO Peter Walsh faces a classic innovator's dilemma. His company, Crescordia, produces high-quality metal plates, pins, and screws that orthopedic surgeons use to repair broken bones. In fact, because of the company's long-standing commitment to quality, some orthopedic surgeons use nothing but Crescordia hardware. And now these customers have begun to clamor for the next-generation technology: resorbable hardware. Resorbables offer clear advanta...Starting at €8.20
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The Cause and the Cure (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Cook, Scott; Hall, TaddyArticle HBS-R0512DMarketingThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Ted Levitt used to tell his Harvard Business School students, "People don't want a quarter-inch drill--they want a quarter-inch hole." But 35 years later, marketers are still thinking in terms of products and ever-finer demographic segments. The structure of a mar...Starting at €8.20
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Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done" (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Hall, Taddy; Dillon, Karen; Duncan, DavidArticle HBS-R1609DMarketingFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building customer profiles and looking for correlations in data. To create offerings that people truly want to buy, firms instead need to home in on the job the customer is trying to get done. Some jobs are little (pass the time); some are big (find a more fulfi...Starting at €8.20
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Gallardo's Goes to Mexico (Spanish Version)
Christensen, Clayton M.Case HBS-608S25MarketingLas teorías de la segmentación del mercado y la creación de marca en el capítulo 3, ¿Qué productos clientes quieren comprar? en la solución del innovador por Clayton Christensen y Michael Raynor sugieren que cuando los mercados del segmento empresas y marcas de construcción de manera que coincidan con la forma en que el cliente ve el mercado - clientes contratan productos para conseguir trabajos que se hacen - su tasa de éxito en el aumento de la...Starting at €8.20
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Dialogue in the Dark: Social Enterprise in China
Ilan Alon; William Hua Wang; Jennifer Dugosh; Kylie OberdorfCase IVEY-9B14M103-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThe founder and CEO of Dialogue in the Dark (DID) had a very unique background with long-term professional experience. She developed a passion for working with the blind and, through this passion, she brought DID to China. DID was a social enterprise aiding the disabled through awareness. Social entrepreneurship was a fairly new concept that had only recently been introduced in China.The CEO needed to figure out how to introduce this idea of soci...Starting at €8.20
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Orlando International Airport: Landing International Airline Business
Ilan Alon; Meredith Lohwasser; Jennifer DugoshCase IVEY-9B13M070-EMarketing, StrategyEach year, Orlando International Airport serviced more than 35 million passengers. Many were attracted to Orlando, Florida, for tourism, vacations and fun, as the area was home to some of the most popular theme parks in the United States. Others travelled to Orlando on business, as the area had attracted international companies, and domestic companies had a growing presence in other countries. The airport needed to continue to attract new airline...Starting at €8.20
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Branding Orlando For Global Competitiveness
Ilan Alon; Jennifer Dugosh; Meredith LohwasserCase IVEY-9B12A043-EMarketingThe case considers the necessity for rebranding the city of Orlando, Florida, which has a brand known worldwide as a destination only for tourism and sunshine. However, the Greater Orlando Area not only houses many other promising industries including technology, defence and simulation but also has a diverse community and a trade scene with vast potential. Yet, why has Orlando not been recognized as a great place to conduct business? Why is its r...Starting at €8.20