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- May 1986
- Case
Sunshine Toy Co., Software Case
By: Thomas R. Piper
Keywords:
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Piper, Thomas R. "Sunshine Toy Co., Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 286-088, May 1986.
- 13 Dec 2022
- Video
Santa Claus Debates Whether to Outsource Toy Production
- August 2003
- Teaching Note
Toys "R" Us (A) and (B) (TN)
By: Dennis A. Yao and Michael G. Rukstad
Teaching Note for (9-703-445) and (9-703-446).
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Keywords:
Retail Industry
- February 1992
- Background Note
Virtual Reality and the General Manager: Toys Becoming Tools
Konsynski, Benn R. "Virtual Reality and the General Manager: Toys Becoming Tools." Harvard Business School Background Note 192-090, February 1992.
- November 2012 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Learning Resources: A Hands-On Toy Company Deals with New Challenges and Opportunities
By: Boris Groysberg and Anahita Hashemi
Learning Resources is a family-owned educational toy company that, by late 2011, was facing a myriad of challenges, including increased competition, entry into new markets, new distribution methods, rising costs of production in China, and changing customer behavior....
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Keywords:
Leading Teams;
Strategy Formulation;
Strategy And Execution;
Innovation;
Corporate Culture;
Industry Analysis;
Organizational Alignment;
Entrepreneurs;
Sales Channels;
Leadership;
Strategy;
Change Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Family Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Product Design;
Sales;
Retail Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, and Anahita Hashemi. "Learning Resources: A Hands-On Toy Company Deals with New Challenges and Opportunities." Harvard Business School Case 413-086, November 2012. (Revised September 2013.)
- 30 Apr 2013
- News
Price Matching Criticized From Wal-Mart to Toys ‘R’ Us
- 14 Dec 2022
- News
Santa Claus Debates Whether to Outsource Toy Production
- 2023
- Article
Moral Escalation: Contested Category Emergence and Its Consequences in the Toy Industry
By: Ryann Noe
Preexisting research has outlined the cognitive, competitive, and economic barriers to market category emergence. Yet scholars have paid scant attention to the processes and consequences of moral resistance to nascent categories. Through a longitudinal, qualitative...
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Keywords:
Moral Sensibility;
Market Entry and Exit;
Product Positioning;
Technology Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Noe, Ryann. "Moral Escalation: Contested Category Emergence and Its Consequences in the Toy Industry." Academy of Management Proceedings (2023).
- 07 Dec 2018
- Video
Current Events Through the Lens of Theory: Toys 'R' Us
- September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
Hot Wheels at Mattel: Reinventing the Wheel
By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller
In 2017, Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., were considering which innovation path to pursue in order to "future proof" the Hot Wheels franchise going forward. Hot Wheels was the...
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Keywords:
Toys;
Industry Evolution;
Innovation Strategy;
Product Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Decision Making;
Digital Transformation
Ofek, Elie, Andres Terech, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Hot Wheels at Mattel: Reinventing the Wheel." Harvard Business School Case 521-015, September 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Case Study Illustration by Corbis/Matthias Kulka Sometimes, a company's history contains more drama than a Russian novel. A recent case, "LEGO," explores how the toy maker grew to global dominance from humble beginnings, the mistakes that...
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- September 2020
- Case
Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience
By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller
Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., had developed an entirely new “mixed play” product experience that blended familiar Hot Wheels play in the physical world with breakthrough play in...
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Keywords:
Toys;
Go-to-market Strategy;
Product Development;
Technological Innovation;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Decision Making;
Marketing;
Strategy;
Los Angeles
Ofek, Elie, Andres Terech, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience." Harvard Business School Case 521-017, September 2020.
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
shape a strategic plan that will make Gap “the place of choice to work,” she says. In creating that plan, Ross will draw heavily on her experience shaping a groundbreaking team-based approach to product development that she piloted to success at Mattel Inc., the...
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- November 2012 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
The LEGO Group: Envisioning Risks in Asia (A)
By: Anette Mikes and Dominique Hamel
On January 1, 2012, the LEGO Group announced a major new initiative to enhance its market penetration in Asia. Later in the year, a cross-functional group of senior managers gathered at company headquarters to discuss the status of the Asian initiative and the risks...
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Keywords:
LEGO;
Toy Industry;
Fashion And Creative Industries;
Organizational Structure;
Risk Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Organizational Design;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Denmark;
Asia
Mikes, Anette, and Dominique Hamel. "The LEGO Group: Envisioning Risks in Asia (A)." Harvard Business School Case 113-054, November 2012. (Revised January 2014.)
- February 2013 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
The LEGO Group: Publish or Protect?
By: Willy C. Shih and Sen Chai
Senior managers at the LEGO Group are faced with a quandary: Should they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and...
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Keywords:
Plastics;
Injection Molding;
Toys;
LEGO;
LEGO Group;
Tools;
Additive Manufacturing;
3D Manufacturing;
Toolmaking;
Patenting;
Spillovers;
Knowledge Spillovers;
Change;
Trends;
Engineering;
Machinery and Machining;
Intellectual Property;
Patents;
Operations;
Production;
Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Consumer Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Technology Industry;
Europe;
Denmark
Shih, Willy C., and Sen Chai. "The LEGO Group: Publish or Protect?" Harvard Business School Case 613-079, February 2013. (Revised March 2015.)
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
Although it isn't part of the admissions criteria, experience playing with LEGOs can come in handy at Harvard Business School. When Stefan H. Thomke teaches his new case about the iconic toy company, he gives students eight-studded LEGO...
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- 18 Dec 2014
- Blog Post
Turnaround & Restructuring Club Conference Recap
On Friday, November 14th, the Turnaround & Restructuring Club successfully hosted its annual Turnaround Conference featuring esteemed panelists from the industry. The event kicked off with a fireside chat featuring Stephen Toy (Senior...
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- August 1995 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Passion for Learning
Describes the challenges confronting a recent HBS graduate who has started a direct-mail toy company. The entrepreneur must evaluate industry conditions in both toys and direct mail, and determine whether he has developed a viable business concept. Presents detailed...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship
McGahan, Anita M., Dale Coxe, Israel Yellen Ganot, and Greg Keller. "Passion for Learning." Harvard Business School Case 796-057, August 1995. (Revised July 1997.)
- January 2023 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Learning Resources: Driven by Purpose
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Mehta and Heather Poco
In January 2023, CEO Rick Woldenberg must make several strategic decisions for his family-owned toy company Learning Resources.
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Keywords:
Change;
Change Management;
Ownership;
Family Ownership;
Leadership;
Decisions;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States;
Chicago;
Illinois
Groysberg, Boris, Sarah Mehta, and Heather Poco. "Learning Resources: Driven by Purpose." Harvard Business School Case 423-053, January 2023. (Revised May 2023.)
- February 2013
- Case
LEGO (A): The Crisis
By: Jan W. Rivkin, Stefan H. Thomke and Daniela Beyersdorfer
As this case opens, iconic toymaker LEGO stands on the brink of bankruptcy. Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, LEGO's young and newly appointed CEO, must size up changes in the toy industry, learn from the company's recent moves, and craft a strategy that will put LEGO back on...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Competitive Strategy;
Crisis Management;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Consumer Products Industry
Rivkin, Jan W., Stefan H. Thomke, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "LEGO (A): The Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 713-478, February 2013.