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Maximizing Revenues in the Minor Leagues (Spanish version)
Cespedes, Frank V.; Winig, Laura; Lovelock, Christopher H.Case HBS-209S22MarketingWhen students have the English-language PDF of this Brief Case in a coursepack, they will also have the option to purchase an audio version. The marketing director of a new minor-league baseball team must design, conduct, and then interpret survey research to determine optimal ticket pricing that will yield large attendance figures and contribute to the owner's goal of breaking even in the first year of play. The pricing assignment becomes more c...Starting at €8.20
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Future Group — Branding Private Labels
Niraj Dawar; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B11A004-EMarketing, StrategyIndia’s largest domestic retail group, the Future Group, is pursuing a novel private-label strategy. In a country dominated by small-scale retailers, it is using its scale to launch private-label brands in several product categories. It is planning to delink these new offerings from the store brand and make them available through other retailers. Future Group hopes to derive most of its growth over the next few years from this initiative.The case...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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Air Miles Canada: Rebranding the Air Miles Rewards Program
Niraj Dawar; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B07A009-EMarketingAir Miles, the largest third party loyalty program in Canada, has more than nine million subscribers. Competition in the loyalty card market is heating up with the entry of Aeroplan and myriad proprietary loyalty programs launched by retailers and other brands, and Air Miles seeks to tighten its relationship with customers. Paradoxically, for a data-driven company focused on influencing consumers individually, Air Miles opts to develop and launch...Starting at €8.20
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Vincor: Project Twist
Niraj Dawar; Kelly Kretz; Eric SingerCase IVEY-9B08A002-EMarketingThe alcohol cooler (refreshment) market in Canada was already crowded, but the marketing manager at Vincor believed there was still room for a new entrant, provided it was sufficiently differentiated. The case provides market research information on which the decision-maker relies to develop a product positioning. Trade-offs need to be made between various positioning options and costs. The case deals with marketing issues from the perspective of...Starting at €8.20
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First Energy
Niraj Dawar; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B12A001-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyIn September 2011, the CEO of First Energy Private Ltd, a start-up enterprise in the alternative energy industry in India, is at a critical juncture. The company has commercialized the technology of biomass cook stoves and has been providing, since 2007, clean and affordable cooking solutions to customers in rural India. A marginal rise in the price of biomass fuel in early 2011 has, however, led to a steep fall in demand, making the continuance ...Starting at €8.20
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Barack Obama: Organizing for America 2.0
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Winig, Laura; Smith, AaronCase HBS-709493-EStrategyLess than a week before Barack Obama was due to be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, Obama for America (OFA), the president-elect's official campaign organization, announced the formation of a post-election organization, Organizing for America. The new organization would keep the campaign field team offices open after Obama took charge of the country for the express purpose of influencing supporters to back his administration's...Starting at €8.20
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Cipla (Spanish version)
Deshpande, Rohit; Winig, LauraCase HBS-520S15MarketingThe head of Cipla, a $325-million-dollar Indian pharmaceutical company and seller of low-cost AIDS drugs to South Africa, must decide what to do about Cipla's future. With India poised to enforce international patents in only two years, much of Cipla's product line could become unsaleable (given that it is based on product patents protected in industrialized countries). Describes Cipla's role in forcing global pharmaceutical companies to lower th...Starting at €8.20
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Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.: The
Quelch, John A.; Winig, LauraCase HBS-507005-EMarketingSchwab management is evaluating the success of the recently launched "Talk to Chuck" advertising campaign. This campaign aims to differentiate Schwab in the cluttered financial services marketplace. Test market results facilitate discussion of advertising objectives, message strategy, media selection, and performance measures. This case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors sh...Starting at €8.20
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The Springfield Nor'easters: Maximizing Revenues in the Minor Leagues, Teaching Note
Cespedes, Frank V.; Winig, Laura; Lovelock, Christopher H.Teaching Note HBS-2511-EMarketingTeaching Note for 2510Starting at €0.00