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  • 31 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

the more eclectic business careers of the last few decades. His entrepreneurial journey culminated (at least temporarily) in the sale of his electric toothbrush company to Procter & Gamble for almost a... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology
  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

just wrote a case on Procter & Gamble in Japan. They understand that Japanese women are incredibly sophisticated, demanding customers who spend more money on cosmetics than anyone else in the world.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

internally focused manner. Innovation today must be managed as an open system, with a far greater external focus. Q: Which companies today are the best examples of open innovation, and why? A: IBM, Intel, and Procter & View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

market or a community for its suppliers.” More practically, working with outside innovators does not mean that all the "keys to the kingdom" have to be given away. Instead, firms can become intelligent about selectively revealing core issues in ways that their IP is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 14 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

Londoners, many of whom live around the corner from the Olympic Park. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510039-PDF-ENG Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (A): Becoming Truly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

problems—be it a Hewlett-Packard or more recently Procter & Gamble and JC Penney—is the only alternative firing the CEO and starting over? A: You don't have to fire the CEO. A lot depends on establishing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

to use the technology; but it's an elaborate and complex relationship, because these companies themselves also work much more closely together. It is more than Wal-Mart working with Procter & Gamble as a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

P&G Harvard Business School Case 706-435 In 2000, Procter & Gamble Co. introduced Crest Whitestrips, a new, revolutionary product that allowed consumers to whiten their teeth at home. With... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

negotiations in the 1980s that led to a significant and growing partnership between Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Wal-Mart. From the perspective of Lou Pritchett, P&G's Vice President of Sales and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

In one recent case, Procter & Gamble purchased a company producing a low-cost, mass-produced disposable electric rotary toothbrush to be marketed under its famous Crest brand umbrella. As it turns out,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!

Blockbusters break sales records and exceed expectations. Around 100 pharmaceutical brands exceed $1 billion in annual sales. Procter & Gamble has 23 such brands. Speed. It's not just the sales volume;... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation; Pharmaceutical
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

U.S. market? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516117-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-039 Supply Chain Finance at Procter & Gamble In April 2013, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

Harvard Business School Case 707-519 In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

reach that level of trading volume. Building A Consumer-products Empire But the negatives haven't scared off consumer products giant Procter & Gamble. Since 1987, the company's Latin American sales have grown by 4.5 times to $2.8... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 11 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

behavior. Good examples of such companies are leaders in the consumer packaged-goods industry such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Kraft Foods—or retail organizations such as Wal-Mart and... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413126-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 403-127 Procter & Gamble On July 12, 2012, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management announced publicly that... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

must pay the cost of the marketplace, not the sellers. Sahlman: Scott, can you give us the short version of your career? Randall: After working at Procter & Gamble in brand management and in consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • 25 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

Companies and government leaders have long tried to recreate the kind of Silicon Valley innovation magic that made Facebook and Google such goldmines. Cities from Cincinnati to Saskatoon have launched startup labs. Companies including Nationwide Insurance, Walt Disney,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 02 Oct 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

McDonald of Procter & Gamble and the company's shift to more emphasis on digital media as an example, commented that "it is possible to allow experimentation trial and error without the CEO looking... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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