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  • October 2013 (Revised August 2015)
  • Case

Outotec (A): Project Capture

By: Robert J. Dolan and Doug J. Chung
Outotec was a market leader in providing mining solutions to large mining companies. The company’s specialization and proprietary technology created value for its customers and helped the firm differentiate from its competitors. Yet, Outotec was not pricing or... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Pricing; Bargaining Power Of Buyers; Marketing; Segmentation; Price; Policy; Sales; Management; Value Creation; Mining Industry
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  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

customers to come to them, they need to go to their customers. Past research demonstrates that firms who maintain or accelerate customer-centric philosophies consistently outperform firms that do not. In fact, they gain market share from... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

innovation, Google Stadia, following disappointing early uptake by premium videogamers, the segment of the market that Google had targeted. Google had invested substantial resources and time into building a... View Details
  • Web

Propose an Independent Project - MBA

for an expanded role in the multibillion-dollar Bank/Broker-dealer back-office segment Helping the CEO determine how to manage the business and political issues around the pricing and marketing of... View Details
  • November 1999 (Revised February 2000)
  • Case

Granny's Goodies, Inc.

By: Das Narayandas and Katherine B. Korman
The young entrepreneurs of Granny's Goodies, Inc., a corporate gift package specialist, face the challenge of finding ways to create consistent revenue streams and reduce sales costs. Outside of a few long-term contracts, the two founders have had to work very hard for... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Customer Relationship Management; Entrepreneurship; Cost Management; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Segmentation; Service Industry
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  • 30 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

featured in the April 2018 issue of Marketing Science. He co-authored the article with Yale assistant professor Vineet Kumar and former HBS doctoral student Pavel Kireyev. Is self-matching an effective strategy? Price-matching among... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • Web

Faculty & Research - Leadership

following disappointing early uptake by premium videogamers, the segment of the market that Google had targeted. Google had invested substantial resources and time... Load More Initiative Leadership Linda A.... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian & Xiaoxue Zhao
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Stakeholder Relations (4) Business or Company Management (19) COVID-19 (127) Capital Markets (13) Capital Structure (1) Capital (65) Cash Flow (1) Cash (2) Central Banking (2) Change Management (67) Change (116) Civil Society or Community... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

segments to existing products, lowering price by removing features, failing to think through all the technical requirements, neglecting stakeholders, and refusing to believe products created for low-income View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

understanding of customers who may buy the product. Level 2: Companies at level 2 have a basic understanding of their customers, typically coming from some market research and segmentation studies. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products
  • 01 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Better by the Bundle?

separately. "Bundling is pervasive in several markets, and it works in many cases," says Vineet Kumar, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. People appreciate bundles even at places like McDonald's,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

Theory O change, Scott Paper operated in a highly competitive, cyclical, capital-intensive global industry. Like Champion International, it operated in two different segments of the paper industry and had several businesses in View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
  • Web

Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

scientists over 50 years ago — business is vital. Managers have a key role to play in confronting climate change in the market sectors in which they operate and in the political and civic circles in which they hold influence. Policy... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

weather that depressed sales of natural gas and home heating oil. As you know, this is also the first quarter we are operating with the Balanced Scorecard, so I can see performance across a broader set of indicators. Market shares in our... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

provide further major challenges for new ventures. Creative talent, astute marketing skills, and the ability to understand and respond rapidly to consumer fashions and preferences are all needed to succeed. There are fortunes to be made... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

offerings of dot-coms. Industry leaders have compromised their existing competitive advantages by entering market segments to which they bring little that is distinctive. Merrill Lynch's move to imitate the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
  • August 2006 (Revised February 2009)
  • Case

Tanishq: Positioning to Capture the Indian Woman's Heart

By: Das Narayandas and Kerry Herman
The firm has to choose between an established brand, Tanishq, and a new skunkworks brand, GoldPlus, to go after the Indian plain gold jewelry market: Tanishq, initially targeted at a western customer, has undergone strategic retooling and has currently been... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Segmentation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; India
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  • 01 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

notion that a large segment of consumers might prefer automobiles that were safe and fuel-efficient. Coca-Cola ignored evidence that "New Coke" would fizzle and launched it anyway. Companies in the mechanical-watch and... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Case Study: Testing the Waters

Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade