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- September 2000 (Revised November 2000)
- Teaching Note
Alexander Bandelli (A) and (B) TN
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Stephanie L. Woerner
Teaching Note for (9-899-146) and (9-899-230).
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- August 2000
- Article
Building Store Loyalty Through Store Brands
By: Marcel Corstjens and R. Lal
Corstjens, Marcel, and R. Lal. "Building Store Loyalty Through Store Brands." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 37, no. 3 (August 2000): 281–291.
- July 2000 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
BMG Entertainment
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Gerrit Meier
As dramatic changes in technology and customer tastes roil the music industry, the top executives of BMG Entertainment, one of the world's largest record companies, must decide how to organize for digital distribution of music. This case includes a brief history of the...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Competitive Strategy;
Distribution Channels;
Organizational Structure;
Technological Innovation;
Industry Structures;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Information Technology;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Rivkin, Jan W., and Gerrit Meier. "BMG Entertainment." Harvard Business School Case 701-003, July 2000. (Revised September 2005.)
- April 2000 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
DoubleClick Buys Abacus (A)
By: John A. Deighton
By acquiring Abacus, DoubleClick won the power to serve ads with unprecedented precision, because it brought together Web surfers' online and offline identities. Several competitors had developed advanced systems for serving ads on the web, but DoubleClick had the...
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Keywords:
Information;
Rights;
Internet and the Web;
Ethics;
Competitive Advantage;
Social Issues;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Digital Marketing;
Advertising Industry
Deighton, John A. "DoubleClick Buys Abacus (A)." Harvard Business School Case 500-091, April 2000. (Revised June 2001.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- April 2000 (Revised September 2001)
- Case
Peppers and Rogers Group, The
By: John A. Deighton
Can two successful authors build a scalable consulting practice based on their unique view of customer relationship management (CRM)? Should they emphasize strategy or execution? The case describes how Peppers and Rogers grew from two people earning speaker fees to a...
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Keywords:
Customer Relationship Management;
Growth and Development;
Information Publishing;
Going Public;
Strategy;
Competition;
Internet;
Consulting Industry
Deighton, John A. "Peppers and Rogers Group, The." Harvard Business School Case 500-096, April 2000. (Revised September 2001.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- March 2000 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Hewlett Packard--Computer Systems Organization: Selling to Enterprise Customers
By: Das Narayandas and Robert C. Dudley
In late 1996, Manuel Diaz, head of Worldwide Sales for Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Computer Systems Organization (CSO), is reviewing the results of an audit of HP's enterprise customer management approach with the objective of identifying market and organizational...
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Keywords:
Accounting Audits;
Transformation;
Customer Relationship Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Marketing Strategy;
Sales;
Computer Industry
Narayandas, Das, and Robert C. Dudley. "Hewlett Packard--Computer Systems Organization: Selling to Enterprise Customers." Harvard Business School Case 500-064, March 2000. (Revised February 2005.)
- February 2000 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Venture Law Group (A)
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scott D Landry
Craig Johnson, Venture Law Group's (VLG) chairman, founded VLG in 1993 with a goal of "zero voluntary turnover." In late 1998, Johnson faces the departure of three important partners, prompting himself to ask what VLG can do in the midst of an "economic hurricane" that...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Customer Relationship Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Retention;
Legal Services Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, and Scott D Landry. "Venture Law Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-065, February 2000. (Revised March 2004.)
- February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Boston.com
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
How aggressively should an incumbent move when developing an online business that threatens its core product? With Internet competitors taking direct aim at the traditional print newspaper business model, the Boston Globe fought back with its own web initiative,...
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Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Decision Making;
Change Management;
Internet and the Web;
Customer Relationship Management;
Competitive Strategy;
Publishing Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Jon K Rust. "Boston.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-165, February 2000. (Revised August 2000.)
- February 2000 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Owens & Minor, Inc. (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
A forward-thinking manager at Owens & Minor (O&M), a large national medical and surgical distribution company, enlisted the help of both logistics and cost managers to develop an innovative pricing schedule based on the customer's activities instead of the price of the...
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Keywords:
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Logistics;
Distribution;
Price;
Supply Chain Management;
Customer Relationship Management;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Owens & Minor, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 100-055, February 2000. (Revised February 2002.)
- February 2000 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
CNET 2000
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Pauline M Fischer
CNET's managers explain the strategic analysis that led to their decision to increase their annual marketing budget from $1 million to $100 million. CNET is an online information intermediary that helps consumers make purchase decisions about PC hardware and software,...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Strategy;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Financial Strategy;
Decisions;
Growth and Development;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Business Divisions;
Marketing Strategy;
Distribution Channels;
Consumer Behavior;
Online Technology;
Information Technology Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Pauline M Fischer. "CNET 2000." Harvard Business School Case 800-284, February 2000. (Revised April 2001.)
- February 2000 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
InSite Marketing Technology (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Genevieve J.S. Feraud and Sheila L Marcelo
Introduces students to products and services that improve customers' online shopping experience. Also discusses the challenges of marketing new product concepts and finding funding for start-up ventures.
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Financing and Loans;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Service Delivery;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Service Industry;
Web Services Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Genevieve J.S. Feraud, and Sheila L Marcelo. "InSite Marketing Technology (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-279, February 2000. (Revised April 2003.)
- February 2000 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
InSite Marketing Technology (B)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Genevieve J.S. Feraud
Provides students an example of partnerships/acquisitions that allow delivery of packaged solutions to customers in the electronic commerce space.
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Satisfaction;
Entrepreneurship;
Partners and Partnerships;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Web Services Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Genevieve J.S. Feraud. "InSite Marketing Technology (B)." Harvard Business School Case 800-280, February 2000. (Revised April 2003.)
- February 2000 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law
By: Debora L. Spar and Jennifer Burns
For over a century, the international diamond market has been dominated by one of the most successful cartels on earth. Run by the legendary De Beers Corp., the cartel has managed to keep diamond prices increasing and to prevent the defection that dooms most other...
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Keywords:
Lawfulness;
Monopoly;
Luxury;
Business and Government Relations;
Consumer Products Industry;
Mining Industry;
Africa;
United States
Spar, Debora L., and Jennifer Burns. "Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law." Harvard Business School Case 700-082, February 2000. (Revised September 2002.)
- January 2000
- Case
Talbots - A Classic
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
This case traces why the $1 billion women's clothing retailer decided to attract younger customers, what went wrong, and the actions taken to recover. By the end of 1999, the company has reestablished itself and faces several growth opportunities and must decide on the...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decisions;
Crisis Management;
Product Positioning;
Problems and Challenges;
Segmentation;
Fashion Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Talbots - A Classic." Harvard Business School Case 500-082, January 2000.
- January 2000 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
Alloy.com: Marketing to Generation Y
By: John A. Deighton and Gil McWilliams
A profitable dot com company? Alloy.com retails clothing to teens by catalog. Alloy uses a Web site to convert prospects and build community. The result is a business with the economics of a direct marketer and the market capitalization of an Internet start-up. The...
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Keywords:
Marketing Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Business and Community Relations;
Partners and Partnerships;
Customer Relationship Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Business Startups;
Information Technology Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Deighton, John A., and Gil McWilliams. "Alloy.com: Marketing to Generation Y." Harvard Business School Case 500-048, January 2000. (Revised June 2000.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 2000
- Article
Georgia Regional Transportation Authority: A Case Study of an Innovative Regional Planning Institution
By: Brian Trelstad
The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA), a new regional planning institution, is a governor-appointed body of 15 regional leaders with broad authority over land use and transportation planning throughout the state. Created in the summer of 1999, GRTA...
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Trelstad, Brian. "Georgia Regional Transportation Authority: A Case Study of an Innovative Regional Planning Institution." Berkeley Planning Journal 14 (2000): 23–45.
- 2000
- Chapter
Relationship Marketing and Key Account Management
By: Joseph P. Cannon and N. Narayandas
Keywords:
Customer Relationship Management
- December 1999
- Case
Lees Supermarkets: Customer Loyalty Programs
By: David E. Bell, Rajiv Lal and Ann Leamon
Bell, David E., Rajiv Lal, and Ann Leamon. "Lees Supermarkets: Customer Loyalty Programs." Harvard Business School Case 500-038, December 1999.
- 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...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Customer Relationship Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Cost Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Design;
Problems and Challenges;
Sales;
Segmentation;
Service Industry
Narayandas, Das, and Katherine B. Korman. "Granny's Goodies, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 500-049, November 1999. (Revised February 2000.)