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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Introduction Benton Textiles have developed a new process‚ which can apply a special finish to certain types of textiles. The subsequent analysis will discuss two of the key questions that every company faces when it introduces a new product: Which market should the company target? And how should the new product be priced? The alternatives for Benton is either to enter the higher priced market‚ to the lower priced market‚ or to combine the two and first enter the higher priced market and then move
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1. Unfreezing a fragmented Ogilvy & Mather out of the Ice Age. Charlotte Beers tries to turn around Ogilvy by implementing a strategy based on differentiation. However‚ Ogilvy’s organisation and culture are obstacles to this process. She has therefore to unfreeze the situation first to allow change to be implemented through a communal culture and a collaborative organisation. Evidence of a crisis are numerous: Major accounts have been lost (Amex); Revenues and earnings are in decline; Agencies
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1. What are the problems? Market leadership and technological innovation have marked Sealed Air’s participation in the U.S. protective packaging market. Several small regional producers have introduced products‚ which are less effective than Sealed Air’s but similar in appearance and cheaper. The company must determine its response to this new competition. The company is faced with a difficult choice of choosing from a range of feasible options ranging from doing nothing to introducing a new product
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Ford Motor Company: Supply Chain Strategy 2/11/02 Finding the Best Fit The Ford Motor Company finds itself in a dynamic business environment where new technologies and practices offer the potential to alter in a significant way the landscape in which it operates. Henry Ford was in his time an innovator in offering ’cars for the masses’. He introduced to the car industry methods and systems innovative in their day. Ford needs once again to forge new paths to ensure future competitive advantage
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Issue: Longitudinal analysis using panel data for assessing seasonality effects on the food security situation in Tajikistan 2005 HBS Tajikistan: Longitudinal analysis using panel data for assessing seasonality effects on the food security situation in Tajikistan 2005 HBS RAMASAWMY‚ Seevalingum FAO Statistics Division‚ Rome. Italy Household income and expenditure survey (HIES) usually collects food data from households at only one period which may refer to one week‚ two weeks or one month
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Managing Business Operations Case Analysis: Blanchard Importing and Distributing Co. Inc. (HBS Case 9 - 673 - 033) Submitted by: Tushar Kothavale (130) NMIMS‚ FT MBA 2009-2011 1) Correct the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) and Reorder point (ROP) quantities for each of the five items mentioned in the case. We first predict the annual demand for the year 1972 based on trend for 4 months of 1972 based on corresponding months of 1971. Calculations for Annual demand (R): The assumption made
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Dell’s mission is to be the most succesful computer company in the world at delivering the best customer experience in markets they serve. In doing so‚ Dell will meet customer expectations. In this essay three questions are answered: 1.Why is Dell so succesful. 2.What are Dell’s strengths‚ weaknesses‚ threats and opportunities (SWOT analyses). 3. What is Dell’s growstrategy for the future. GROEPSOPDRACHT 1 MARKETING MANAGEMENT CASE DELL- NEW HORIZONS Rotterdam‚ 5 maart 2003 Studenten: Cindy
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