“Sniffing Glue Could Snuff Profits.” H.B. Fuller is a leading manufacture of industrial glues‚ coatings‚ and paints‚ with operations worldwide. There glue is used in everything from cars to cigarettes. Fuller’s glue is not always used in the way that the company intended. Tens of thousands of Central American children sniff the Fuller glue‚ becoming addicted to the intoxicating fumes. H.B. Fuller has been in business since 1887 and has the responsibility to provide a safe product for both
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TiVo’s problem rests in its inability to convince consumers to change their television consumption habits. Improper targeting and positioning have led to an ineffective product‚ price-point and promotion strategy that has stranded TiVo in the chasm between the early market and the early majority. TiVo is a truly discontinuous innovation‚ a product that requires consumers to dramatically change their past behavior with the promise of gaining equally dramatic new benefits. TiVo’s main challenge is
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BMW Z3 is the first BMW car which is being manufactured in North America which has not been a very big market [roughly around 16%] for BMW because of the inability of the American customer to associate with a foreign brand. Therefore the sales and marketing approach of BMW Z3 will lay the foundations of the future of BMW brand in America. Their phase I was a success‚ and they had two months between the launch and the product availability to further ingrain their brand image in the hearts of the Americans
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Introduction This reaction paper is based on the “Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (A)” Harvard Business School case (HBS Case #9-495-031) which examines the challenge Beers faces in her new role as CEO of Ogilvy & Mather and increasing the acceptance of the new vision for the organization - and particularly the ‘Brand Stewardship’ business initiative - by employees below senior management level within the organization. The case details the steps Beers takes as she guides her organization
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1. Summary of Massey-Ferguson’s 1971-176 Goals‚ Strategy and Risk/Return profile Goals/Strategy: • Focus on small tractors‚ combine harvesters and industrial machinery • Exploit markets outside North America and Western Europe • Dealing directly with governments and public institutions • Central production of diesel engines in UK Risk/Return profile: • Empire Building; engaging in potential negative NPV investments • Expanding potentially unprofitable divisions (ambitious program of expanding
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1. What is Saturn’s strategy? * Improvement in the Labor-Management Partnership. Changing the established relationship between GM and its unions * Clear definition and articulation of company’s mission and values. Challenge to the established norms of customer service. Making sure that every employee is aware of his goals and the ultimate purpose * Improvements in design and manufacturing process. Most GM cars were criticized for obsolete designs and engines. Saturn wanted to change that perception
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Introduction: Aspen is a software company which was established in 1982. The company mainly provides simulation solutions to process manufacturing companies. The main industry which the company focuses on is chemical processing. The entire idea began with the project of Advanced System for Process Engineering in MIT in 1976. This project was than acquired by Lawrence Evans whom founded Aspen. In a very short amount of time Aspen became a major player in the simulation part of the software industry
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about new-product branding‚ but as best as we could tell‚ nobody had looked closely at the issue of how to brand a successive generation‚" Gourville says. To that end‚ Gourville and Ofek teamed up with London Business School professor Marco Bertini (HBS DBA ’06) to suss out the best practices for branding next-generation products. "For managers‚ this is not a trivial decision‚" Ofek says. "Consumers don ’t necessarily read specs to learn about new features‚
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Case: Dell Computers (A): Field Service for Corporate Clients [HBS 9-603-067] 1. What are the key challenges DELL should be concerned with as it enters the large scale server market? Support service in server market is more critical than in personal computer market‚ especially when the server is a large scale one‚ since a problem in server even for a short time could cause serious problem in the customer’s business. Having realized the importance‚ competitors such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM
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Case: Mountain Man Brewing Company 1. What has made the Mountain Man Brewing Company successful? What is distinctive about MMBC’s product‚ customers and brand equity? Reasons why MMBC has been successful: * MMBC used their history and status as an independent family owned brewery to enhance the feeling of authenticity of their brand‚ which resonates with its core drinkers – blue collar‚ middle to low income men over the age of 45. * MMBC has very high brand awareness – in a recent
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