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Edward R. Stettinius
When Stettinius joined Diamond Match, it was the United States’ leading producer of matches, but it was a suffering entity. Within a few short years, however, Stettinius turned the company around and initiated an advertising campaign to...
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Fabricated Goods
- October 2003 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
American Legacy: Beyond the Truth Campaign
By: Youngme E. Moon and Kerry Herman
The hard-hitting "Truth" campaign has been one of the most successful antismoking initiatives in history. The focus of the "Truth" campaign is to dissuade teenagers from smoking. The sponsor of the campaign, the American Legacy Foundation, is now trying to decide...
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Advertising Campaigns;
Communication Strategy;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Ethics;
Brands and Branding;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Moon, Youngme E., and Kerry Herman. "American Legacy: Beyond the Truth Campaign." Harvard Business School Case 504-014, October 2003. (Revised August 2005.)
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
U.S. companies spent a staggering $285 billion on advertising in 2006, according to Advertising Age. That's a lot of dollars and expectations being handed to advertising...
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by Sean Silverthorne
Richard W. Sears
embellish with advertisements in the infamous Sears, Roebuck catalogs, his company was a huge success, its sales growing from $300,000 in 1893 to over $10 million in 1900.
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Retail
Nelson Doubleday
1947 as the largest publishing house in the nation with annual sales over $30 million. Doubleday was a keen manager who readily terminated unprofitable enterprises and embraced modern advertising techniques and market strategies.
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Publishing & Print Media
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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
partner of Venrock Associates, a venture capital company founded by members of the Rockefeller family. Advertising Ephemera More than 8,000 trade cards representing the full range of products and businesses View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO...
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1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Photograph Collection | Baker Library
importance of design in commerce and industry, demonstrate that beauty and sales values were complimentary to civilization, and to emphasize a trend toward a national visual style. The photographs in the collection represent documentary photography, studio photography,...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
He Begs to Differentiate
operate. As a result, branding becomes more and more important - differentiating what they do and what they sell. That's good for us, because we're in the differentiation business." WPP is one of the world's largest advertising and...
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Robert W. Woodruff
Resisting the pressure of other board members to diversify Coca-Cola through acquisition, Woodruff was committed to promoting the company’s core mission. In keeping with this vision, Woodruff solicited the genius of advertising great...
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Food & Tobacco
- October 2011 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
The American Repertory Theater
By: Rohit Deshpande, Allen S. Grossman and Ryan Johnson
When Diane Paulus, artistic director and CEO of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) first started in 2008, she attracted media coverage around an aesthetic that aimed to give the audience more ownership over the theater experience, excited theatergoers by...
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Advertising Campaigns;
Arts;
Business Model;
Leading Change;
Media;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Competitive Strategy;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
North and Central America
Deshpande, Rohit, Allen S. Grossman, and Ryan Johnson. "The American Repertory Theater." Harvard Business School Case 512-026, October 2011. (Revised May 2015.)
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
In 2002, we carried out a two-stage research project in partnership with the market research company Research International/USA to find out how consumers in different countries value global brands. First, we conducted a qualitative study in forty-one countries to...
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- 2001
- Working Paper
Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider...
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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Feng Zhu. "Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-026, September 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45842 Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract—Paid search has become an increasingly common form of advertising, comprising about half of all...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
challenge for all advertising is to connect the dots all the way to sales. Sales are a function of advertising but also price and the quality of a product, so you can’t blame or credit View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
Trade card from 1833 advertising "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." (Baker Library Historical Collections) From the time of her marriage in 1743 until her death in 1765, Sarah Chamberlain, wife of Nathaniel Chamberlain, a blacksmith...
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Earl G. Graves
of the black community of the need for such a publication, Grave eventually garnered the support of over 100,000 leaders and organizations. By 1992, the magazine had national recognition–including advertising support from many Fortune 500...
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Publishing & Print Media
- December 2022 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Daniel Defense: Responding to the Shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
At 11:33am on May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old man from Uvalde, Texas walked into the Robb Elementary School carrying a semi-automatic "AR-15-style” rifle manufactured by Daniel Defense and killed 19 children and two adults. Three days later, Representative Carolyn Maloney...
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Gun Violence;
Gun Policy;
Second Amendment;
Legal Liability;
Government Legislation;
Marketing Strategy;
Business or Company Management;
Product Marketing;
Ethics;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Moral Sensibility;
Crime and Corruption;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Advertising Industry;
Advertising Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "Daniel Defense: Responding to the Shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX." Harvard Business School Case 323-058, December 2022. (Revised February 2023.)
- April 2020
- Teaching Note
Tailor Brands: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Branding
By: Jill Avery
Using proprietary artificial intelligence technology, startup Tailor Brands set out to democratize branding by allowing small businesses to create their brand identities by automatically generating logos in just minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
History Matters
marketing strategist in the wake of a softening economy, shrinking advertising budgets, and eroding consumer confidence, in addition to the aftershocks of September 11. “In this volatile environment, marketers and CEOs realize with new...
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