brands - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

turnaround—form the basis for a terrific debate on the importance of brand and location, according to Jeffrey Fear, an associate professor, and Carin-Isabel Knoop, executive director of the HBS Global Research Group. The two resulting... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

29 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement

approach decisions regarding endorsements. Similarly, because star athletes and other celebrities are "brands" that have certain meanings for consumers, companies can spend millions of dollars to align themselves with those celebrities. They hope those... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

01 Oct 1999
News

Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic

President and CEO of Banana Republic since 1995, Jeanne Jackson (MBA '78) has been credited with transforming the faltering safari clothing brand into one of the nation's leaders in - and definers of - casual attire. In 1998, Business... View Details

Profile

Jeremy Andrus

now is managing growth and our increasing organizational complexity. Last year was very active: we opened an office in Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to build our View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

01 Jun 2025
News

Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

Creating Brand Value, Ofek and his co-authors look at the company’s evolution from toy manufacturer to IP franchise manager and the reinvigoration of the famous and famously fraught brand. It wasn’t just the considerable hype around the... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; Illustrations by Miguel Porlan; Educational Services

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

of the American Marketing Association's 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award. The power of "The Rings"—the brand power of the Olympics—derives from the global recognition of the five rings (representing the five... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

generate cash very quickly. So Jobs' first great attribute was extreme focus. There is a window right now for a desktop alternative to Microsoft in many markets around the world.— David Yoffie Number two; he went back to creating sizzle and real View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2004
News

Luxe Redux

Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher — or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a result, the market’s most... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

addition, the supermarkets offer private label wines in Europe, while they generally do not in the United States. (The exception is Wal-Mart, which recently introduced a private label wine through an alliance with E&J Gallo.) The View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

trademark lawsuit, or spending money on a domain name or logo that turns out to be unusable. As head of Master-McNeil, a Berkeley-based naming and branding agency behind names like Ariba, PayPal, Athlon, Affirm, and over 60 projects for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Profile

Omowale Casselle

expectations of our consumers, retailers, and brand partners." "In addition to managing our product lines, I also lead our operations team, which means that I make sure that each retail partner (Walmart, Walgreens, Kroger, and... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products

04 Sep 2019
News

Action Plan: A New ’Cue

sketch out Pork & Mindy’s—the fast-casual barbecue brand that will have 65 locations in the West and Midwest by the end of 2019, along with a growing retail line. On that white board Corsello identified three obstacles. Two were... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Sep 2019
News

Clicks and Mortar

has to create a branded experience that goes beyond the purely transactional—one that aims to build a relationship with the customer and communicate the brand in an experiential way. There’s still a purpose... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2020
News

Giving Amazon the Boot

direct-to-consumer brands are bypassing Amazon from the get-go. “What I have learned from talking to hundreds of our merchants is that when they start a business, it’s really an expression of themselves. And it’s important for their... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

07 Nov 2007
Op-Ed

How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple

damage to Apple brand equity among its core customers. After heavy blogging complaints about Apple exploiting its loyal followers, Steve Jobs had to apologize publicly (after a curt "That's technology" response fueled the fire)... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products

15 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

itemizes what it spends on cotton, cutting, sewing, dyeing, finishing, and transporting each shirt, consumers become more attracted to the brand and more likely to purchase. “By unpacking the costs, you have the opportunity to explain... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

have two types of "sponsors" for their loyalty reward investments: manufacturers of the branded goods sold by retailers, and other partner companies presumably with higher margins, who find it economically advantageous to pay... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2017
News

Lego Stays on Script

fanatics. “Getting under the skin of the brand made it much easier to understand the right stories to tell and the right people to bring on to our team,” he says. The movie’s success was “gratifying on both a personal and a View Details