Publications

December 2010 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Kanebo Ltd. (A)

By: David F. Hawkins, Suraj Srinivasan, Akiko Kanno and Lizzie Gomez

Speculation as to how Japanese companies might implement IFRS with particular emphasis on consolidation accounting. View Details

Keywords: History; Business Conglomerates; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Consolidation; Financial Statements; International Finance; International Accounting; Standards; Goodwill Accounting; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

01 Dec 2012
News

Tidy Minds

In a wide-ranging Q&A in the "Global Manager" column of the New York Times (September 2, 2012), Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA 1968), chief executive of the WPP Group, the world's largest advertising and marketing firm, had some thoughts on... View Details

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

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?

gone. "You still see big companies like Spotify, but what's their source of power?" Asked Oberholzer-Gee. "Network effects. Now, we pair lots of ears with lots of advertisers and we create a different form of power, but where the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Music

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends

sleeves.—Jeff Fagnan Lisa L. Wiersma, Principal, Tribune Ventures, invests around core businesses or newspapers and television stations. Her firm, perhaps not too surprisingly, is particularly interested in ventures that are not driven by View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

14 Feb 2018
Blog Post

Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Verdell Walker, Sesame Workshop

HBS, I worked as an equity research analyst at Goldman Sachs and as a strategy analyst in the advertising sales division of The Wall Street Journal. My stint in finance helped me develop my analytical and research capabilities. Working at... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Sep 2008
News

Where Are They Now?

he also spearheaded the effort to open the School’s MBA Program to women. “Marty was a terrific teacher,” recalls HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, a former MBA student of Marshall’s and his successor in teaching the Advertising... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1999
News

Pearson Hunt

advertising - and returned to my academic work after 1946. (Now an emeritus professor at HBS, Pearson Hunt is enjoying an active retirement from his home in Cambridge.) View Details

Keywords: Pearson Hunt

12 May 2015
Blog Post

Just Starting to Recruit?

club-sponsored events, and more. 5) Partner with a Club - Organizations can reach targeted groups of students by connecting with relevant career-related student clubs. Work with club leaders to sponsor events, advertise job opportunities,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Oct 2000
News

Internet Tsunami

system, much more so than in the United States," the New York Times (June 7, 2000) reported. Merchants, ranging from toy stores to fishmongers, pay a monthly fee to access Rakuten's e-commerce software and customer database. Merchants also enjoy low-cost View Details

Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2005
News

Style Check

Benetton Brain Trust: After learning at the knee of his father, Luciano, Alessandro is taking the family business forward. Working for his family’s company, whose colorful sportswear and controversial advertising made it a brand of... View Details

Keywords: Formula 1; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

was largely a formality. The CEO saw it differently. He felt that the company's advertising had become stale and that a makeover should start right away—and this would most likely mean hiring a new agency. He put the marketing campaign on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

organization is involved, we charge. Advertising also brings in revenue." ALISON enables potential employers to immediately test the skill of certificate-holding ALISON graduates through 20-question "flash tests" that assess their... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

(Parliament) called for reforms to limit the activities of corporate pyramids. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 416-003 Big Spaceship: The Evolving Agency This case discusses the evolution of Big... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2013
News

Seeing the Light

EVANS: A second career emerges from a lifelong avocation. Photo courtesy of Chip Evans For decades, Chip Evans (MBA 1973) was a Mad Man in Manhattan, doing account work for major Fortune 500 clients at iconic advertising agencies such as... View Details

Keywords: painting; Arts, Entertainment

May 2009 (Revised December 2009)
Case

Reliance Baking Soda: Optimizing Promotional Spending

By: John A. Quelch and Heather Beckham

Reliance Baking Soda is Stewart Corporation's oldest and most established product. The new Domestic Brand Director needs to create a 2008 marketing budget that delivers a profit increase of 10% over 2007 levels. She must first evaluate the effectiveness of past... View Details

Keywords: Communication Strategy; Quantitative Analysis; Consumer Marketing; Marketing Planning; Product Management; Sales Promotions; Program Budgeting; Marketing Strategy; Advertising; Product Marketing; Budgets and Budgeting; Sales; Consumer Products Industry

May 1981 (Revised December 1992)
Case

Chesebrough-Pond's, Inc.: Vaseline Petroleum Jelly

By: John A. Quelch

The product manager for Vaseline Petroleum Jelly has to prepare the 1978 brand budget and determine expenditure levels for advertising, trade promotion, and consumer promotion. View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Budgets and Budgeting; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

26 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

Advertising Authors:Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta Abstract As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2009 (Revised March 2025)
Case

Phreesia: The Patient Intake Company

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Sunaina Yarlagadda and Brian L. Walker

How should the co-founders of an organization that provides patient sign-in and billing services scale their company after five years of successfully targeting small private physician practices? Phreesia had deployed a direct mail and sales force strategy that resulted... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Social Entrepreneurship; Revenue; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry