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- February 2017 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
Kameda Seika: Cracking the U.S. Market
By: Elie Ofek, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
In spring 2016, Kameda’s CEO, Michiyasu Tanaka, is facing difficult questions from board members over the lackluster performance of the company’s U.S. subsidiary. Kameda was the leading player in the Japanese rice cracker market and was looking to expand overseas to...
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Keywords:
Marketing Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Adaptation;
Performance Improvement;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Japan;
United States
Ofek, Elie, Nobuo Sato, and Akiko Kanno. "Kameda Seika: Cracking the U.S. Market." Harvard Business School Case 517-095, February 2017. (Revised April 2018.)
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
marketing. "That day, Maria's life changed forever, and so did mine," says Max Eisenbud, her agent at sports agency IMG, as quoted in the recent Harvard Business School case "Maria Sharapova: View Details
- Research Summary
Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide
The organizational theory of the multinational firms holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination...
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- 2012
- Article
Journalists and the Stock Market
By: Christopher Parsons, C. Dougal, J. Engelberg and D. Garcia
We use exogenous scheduling of Wall Street Journal columnists to identify a causal relation between financial reporting and stock market performance. To measure the media's unconditional effect, we add columnist fixed effects to a daily regression of excess Dow Jones...
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Parsons, Christopher, C. Dougal, J. Engelberg, and D. Garcia. "Journalists and the Stock Market." Review of Financial Studies 25, no. 3 (March 2012): 639–679.
- August 1984 (Revised October 1992)
- Background Note
Marketing Implementation
By: John A. Quelch
Describes a framework for evaluating marketing implementation problems and assesses the interfaces between marketing strategy and implementation.
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Marketing Strategy
Quelch, John A. "Marketing Implementation." Harvard Business School Background Note 585-024, August 1984. (Revised October 1992.)
- June 2005 (Revised October 2007)
- Background Note
Market Efficiency
By: Joshua D. Coval, Erik Stafford, Rodrigo Osmo, John Jernigan, Zachary Page and Paul Passoni
Covers how prices react to information, the incentives for bringing information into prices, and the paradox of market efficiency in equilibrium--for investors to work hard keeping markets efficient, they must always be somewhat inefficient at the margin. Uses separate...
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- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
against federal law? But in the absence of enforcement action by the United States government, perhaps the better question is, what will the...
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- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
allocation such as heuristics, decision rules, and "bottom up" approaches still effective in today's complex marketing environment? To help practicioners answer this question, Harvard Business School professors Sunil Gupta and Tom...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Market Research Meets the “People Factor”
Knowledge about a market is no cinch to acquire, of course. And though information may have been painstakingly collected, analyzed, and presented by market researchers, it faces an even greater hurdle when...
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by Martha Lagace
- June 2013
- Supplement
Novozymes/Henrik Meyer, V.P. of Marketing and Business Development, Novozymes
Video Supplement to the case, "Novozymes: Cracking the Emerging Markets Code."
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Keywords:
Business To Business Marketing;
Emerging Markets;
Strategy;
Chemical Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
China;
Denmark
Palepu, Krishna G. "Novozymes/Henrik Meyer, V.P. of Marketing and Business Development, Novozymes." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 113-703, June 2013.
- May 1991 (Revised May 1991)
- Background Note
Focusing the Concept of Social Marketing
Examines those social marketing situations that pose challenges for adoption of conventional marketing principles. In addition to discussing how they differ the note explores underlying reasons and suggests alternate ways of conceptualizing such problems.
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Social Marketing
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Focusing the Concept of Social Marketing." Harvard Business School Background Note 591-047, May 1991. (Revised May 1991.)
- August 1991
- Background Note
Marketing Research
Summarizes and synthesizes materials in the following notes: Marketing Situation Assessment, Marketing Research: An Overview of Research Methods, and Research Methods in Marketing: Survey Research.
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Marketing
Sultan, Fareena. "Marketing Research." Harvard Business School Background Note 592-013, August 1991.
- 2016
- Article
Peer-to-Peer Markets
By: Liran Einav, Chiara Farronato and Jonathan Levin
Peer-to-peer markets such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb allow small suppliers to compete with traditional providers of goods or services. We view the primary function of these markets as making it easy for buyers to find sellers and engage in convenient, trustworthy...
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Keywords:
Peer-to-peer;
Online Platforms;
Matching;
Innovation;
Digital Platforms;
Marketplace Matching;
Market Design;
Internet and the Web;
Technology Adoption;
Network Effects;
Market Entry and Exit
Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, and Jonathan Levin. "Peer-to-Peer Markets." Annual Review of Economics 8 (2016): 615–635.
- January 2010
- Background Note
In the Spotlight: The Market for Iron Ore
By: Aldo Musacchio, Tarun Khanna and Jenna Bernhardson
This note discusses the structure and functioning of the market for iron ore. This market has traditionally functioned using a benchmark pricing mechanism, in which large steel mills in Japan (now in China) negotiate the benchmark price with the largest of the big...
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Keywords:
Industry Structures;
Mining;
Price;
Valuation;
Business Strategy;
Demand and Consumers;
Business and Government Relations;
Mining Industry;
China
Musacchio, Aldo, Tarun Khanna, and Jenna Bernhardson. "In the Spotlight: The Market for Iron Ore." Harvard Business School Background Note 710-049, January 2010.
- 26 Jan 2010
- News
Lessons for the American housing market
- 24 May 2011
- News
Marketing the Public Library
- Article
Market Structure, Oligopoly and the Stability of Market Shares
By: R. E. Caves and M. E. Porter
Caves, R. E., and M. E. Porter. "Market Structure, Oligopoly and the Stability of Market Shares." Journal of Industrial Economics 26, no. 4 (June 1978): 289–313.
- August 2017
- Case
RoboTech: Storming into the U.S. Market
By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Rachel Gordon and John J. Lafkas
This case describes the challenges facing the CEO of a small, Singapore-based industrial robotics company that decides to diversify away from its core industrial robot business by leveraging its expertise into the medical-devices industry. It launches an innovative...
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Keywords:
Market Entry and Exit;
Diversification;
Product Launch;
Competitive Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Technology Industry;
Singapore;
United States
Bartlett, Christopher A., Rachel Gordon, and John J. Lafkas. "RoboTech: Storming into the U.S. Market." Harvard Business School Brief Case 918-501, August 2017.