Publications

February 2003 (Revised September 2003)
Teaching Note

Aqualisa Quartz: Simply a Better Shower (TN)

By: Youngme E. Moon and Kerry Herman

Teaching Note for (9-502-030). View Details

June 2002
Case

Vans: Skating on Air

By: Youngme E. Moon and David Kiron

Vans is best known for selling footwear and apparel to skateboarders, surfers, and other alternative sports athletes. In April 2002, Gary Schoenfeld, the CEO, is facing a number of challenges. With respect to footwear, he must decide what to do about two product lines... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; California

November 2001 (Revised March 2002)
Case

Digital Angel

By: Youngme E. Moon and Kerry Herman

Digital Angel is considering the appropriate marketing plan for the launch of its new locator device. The device, a watch and pager worn in combination, provides GPS location information and monitors heart rate and body temperature via body sensors. Parents of young... View Details

Keywords: Information; Safety; Rights; Market Entry and Exit; Ethics; Product Launch; Brands and Branding; Product Development

01 Dec 2011
News

Welcome to the Future

be adopted for all. “Perhaps the most fundamental change is that, whereas Aldrich is a half circle, we wanted to create a whole circle,” says MBA Program Chair Professor Youngme Moon. Managed by HBS... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Construction of Buildings; Construction

June 2007
Article

Companies and the Customers Who Hate Them

By: Gail McGovern and Youngme Moon

Keywords: Customers; Business Ventures

Find at Harvard

1999
Working Paper

Machines and Mindlessness: Social Responses to Computers

By: Clifford Nass and Youngme Moon

26 Aug 2015
News

HBX Intros HBX Live Virtual Classroom

20 Dec 2018
Blog Post

A Time For Opportunity In Food and Agriculture

fundamentals, and take advantage of all the school has to offer. Ledoux reflected that courses she took in negotiation and marketing have been crucial to her success in building her business. She frequently thinks back to cases that Prof. View Details

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

The center approached Alessi, a medium-sized tableware company in Italy, at the request of professors Youngme Moon and Gail McGovern for a case in the Consumer Marketing MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

Web

Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

B2C Marketing Compilation of posts on B2C marketing , Tom Eisenmann Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us , Duncan Watts Building Brand Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd , Youngme Moon... View Details

April 2009 (Revised April 2009)
Teaching Note

(PRODUCT) RED (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Michael I. Norton and Youngme E. Moon

Teaching Note for [509013 and 509014]. View Details

March 2002 (Revised January 2003)
Case

Microsoft: Positioning the Tablet PC

By: Youngme E. Moon and Christina L. Darwall

Microsoft is preparing for the launch of the Tablet PC, which allows users to use a pen (stylus) to run Windows and Windows applications, annotate documents, and create handwritten documents for later reference or even conversion to text. Microsoft's original equipment... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Positioning; Market Entry and Exit; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Computer Industry

May 2005 (Revised March 2007)
Teaching Note

Sony EyeToy

By: Anita Elberse and Youngme E. Moon

Teaching Note to (9-505-024). View Details

Keywords: Electronics Industry

August 2004 (Revised July 2006)
Case

PROPECIA TM: Helping Make Hair Loss History

By: Marta Wosinska and Youngme E. Moon

In late 1997, Tom Casola, brand manager for Propecia, debates the best approach to market this breakthrough one-a-day pill for hair loss. This launch would be atypical for a prescription drug because of the key position of the consumer. As a result, the team's... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Communication Strategy; Customers; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Pharmaceutical Industry

July 2004 (Revised March 2007)
Case

Sony EyeToy

By: Anita Elberse and Youngme E. Moon

In early 2004, less than a year after its launch, Sony's EyeToy, a unique video gaming concept, had become a tremendous success across Europe. Developed for use with Sony's PlayStation 2 console, the revolutionary technology allowed users standing in front of a small... View Details

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Software; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Europe

March 1999 (Revised August 1999)
Case

Coop, The: Market Research

By: Ruth Bolton and Youngme E. Moon

Daryl Buckmeister, CEO of The Chicken Coop, must decide whether to invest in market research, how much money to spend, and which programs to fund. His two vice presidents (of quality and marketing) have presented very different proposals. View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Cost; Research; Markets; Quality; Decisions; Management Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry