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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

The Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “Between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the century, conditions in the American economy and in society merged to satisfy the necessary pre-conditions for... View Details

01 Jan 2008
News

Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where collectors sold Beanie Babies to an... View Details

November 2007 (Revised March 2010)
Case

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Tom Cruise

By: Anita Elberse and Peter Stone

In November 2006, Harry Sloan, chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) offers movie star Tom Cruise and his business partner Paula Wagner a chance to run United Artists (UA), a dormant studio within MGM's portfolio. Just over two months earlier, Viacom... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Talent and Talent Management; Film Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Partners and Partnerships; Value Creation; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

01 Dec 2002
News

Alumni Bookshelf

did not give rise to a “new economy,” and offers advice on how to restore American economic growth. The Brand Management Checklist by Alan Bradley (“Brad”) VanAuken (MBA '84) (Kogan Page) A comprehensive resource on building winning... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

A World of Support

HBS Fund Supports the School’s Global Interests “No other management school has the global reach of HBS or a similar global brand power.” Gaëtan Hannecart (MBA 1994) Global Understanding is one of four key areas supported by the HBS Fund... View Details

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

Determination Through Brand Biography Authors:Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, Jill Avery, and Juliet Schor Publication:Journal of Consumer Research (forthcoming) Abstract We introduce the concept of an underdog View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Rahul Bajaj

Keywords: Diversified

Federico Braun

Keywords: Supermarkets

01 Dec 2004
News

Getting Personal

niche advertising. But these marketers realized the best way to create cachet for a young audience was to make it inaccessible and let the kids discover it on their own. So classic marketing wisdom doesn’t always hold true? That’s right. Take another piece of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Franklin P. Perdue

Under Perdue’s total-control leadership style, Perdue Farms grew from a small Maryland chicken farm into the United States’ third largest chicken producer with sales of almost $1 billion in the late 1980s. Perdue built his business on quality, becoming the personal... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

01 Mar 2019
News

3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)

about my kids succeeding me. But the second piece is, oh my God, this business is different than it was even five years ago. “Public relations” is not a complete description of our work anymore. Everything is being driven by brand... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

November 2002 (Revised February 2009)
Teaching Note

Value Retail (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel and Ani M Vartanian

Teaching Note for (9-803-008). View Details

Keywords: Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Performance Effectiveness; Brands and Branding; Planning; Strategy; Luxury; Milan

05 Dec 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

store; simultaneously, new customers are attracted to the direct channels, perhaps due to a branding effect stemming from the publicity surrounding the new store, which makes customers more aware of and more comfortable with the firm's... View Details

December 2016
Supplement

Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail

By: Ryan Raffaelli, Joshua D. Margolis and Das Narayandas

This is a video supplement, to be used when teaching the Ron Johnson case. See abstract:

In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Competition; Organizational Behavior; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Situation or Environment; Failure; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; United States

Heimbold focused on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s growth and created a scientific-based, world-leading pharmaceutical company with very strong consumer franchises. Sixty-two percent of its sales come from pharmaceuticals (where it holds leadership positions in anticancer... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Muhammad Alagil

Keywords: Electronics; office supplies; books; diversified

May 2006 (Revised June 2006)
Case

Icebreaker: The China Entry Decision

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Dan Heath

Jeremy Moon, CEO of Icebreaker, maker of merino-fiber activewear, thinks about the strengths and weaknesses of staying focused on his rapidly expanding U.S. and European markets vs. broadening his attack to include China. If he enters China, should he continue his... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Global Strategy; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; China; United States; Europe

January 2003 (Revised February 2003)
Case

Office Depot, Inc.: Business Transformation (A)

By: James L. Heskett, Dan Maher, Daniel F. OBrien, Thomas Watson and Jeffrey F. Rayport

The company's management is considering the possibility of launching a rebranding campaign around the promises "What you need. What you need to know." The questions are whether and when to launch the campaign in view of the large number of training efforts and... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Advertising Campaigns; Brands and Branding; Business Strategy; Technology Adoption; Transformation; Market Timing; Growth and Development; Training; Retail Industry