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Think You Have a Great Idea? Ask These 6 Questions to Gain Perspective.
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A New Approach to Innovation Investment
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleOver the years, we've seen a lot of potentially valuable innovations flop because the companies sponsoring them were using the fundamentally wrong logic... -
Too Soon to IPO? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFour years ago, Diane Ashton and Sundeep Lal were working together at MIT on a titanium extraction project. Durable and highly heat resistant, titanium... -
The Best Way to Name Your Product 2.0
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleAlthough there's ample research to guide marketers in naming new products, little of it has addressed follow-on offerings, even though these make up the... -
Finding the Perfect Pace for Product Launches
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Why Most Product Launches Fail
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleVeteran product launch PR executives Joan Schneider and Julie Hall examine the five most frequent reasons why new products flop: The company can't support... -
Corporate Imagination and Expeditionary Marketing
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleIn the 1990s, competitive success will come from building and dominating fundamentally new markets. Core competencies are one prerequisite for creating... -
"I Think of My Failures as a Gift"
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLafley, the former CEO of Procter & Gamble, is regarded as one of the most successful chief executives in recent history. But like everyone else, he's... -
Start-ups: Before You Launch Your Product, Start With a Service
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Using Experiments to Launch New Products
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Designing the Best Strategy for Your Next Global Product Rollout
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How Xiaomi Beats Apple at Product Launches
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Designing a Great Early-User Program
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Should You Launch Products During a Recession?
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleEconomic downturns are frightening. Consumers curb spending, companies cut costs, and we all wait anxiously for the economy to recover. In such a climate,... -
10 Tactics for Launching a Product Using Social Media
Marketing Digital ArticleGet customers excited with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Meerkat, and more. -
Innovating for Cash
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleReprint: R0309E Despite companies' almost fanatical worship of innovation, most new products don't generate money. That's because executives don't realize... -
Sales Learning Curve
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWhen a company launches a new product into a new market, the temptation is to ramp up sales force capacity immediately to gain customers as quickly as... -
Marketing Breakthrough Products
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleProducts without precedent are a tough sell; consumers stick with the goods they understand. The key to marketing breakthrough products is to educate... -
4 Things Your Innovation Efforts Shouldn't Focus On
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Being Early Beats Being Better
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleResearch on product adoption in the airline industry suggests that being first to market can make a big difference to an offering's success, even if the...
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Nestle Refrigerated Foods: Contadina Pasta & Pizza (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Serious Materials
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Serious Materials is a start up who is moving into clean tech markets. The company's first product, QuietRock, originated the sound proofing drywall category... -
Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods, offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious... -
Loctite Corp.: Industrial Products Group
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details A new product introduction strategy covering all elements of the marketing mix must be planned for equipment designed to dispense industrial adhesives.... -
The Passion of the Christ (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Bob Berney, president of Newmarket Films, must decide on a distribution and marketing strategy for Mel Gibson's controversial new movie, The Passion of... -
Documentum, Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Describes Jeff Miller's attempt to implement Geoffrey Moore's crossing the chasm ideas at enterprise software vendor, Documentum. -
TiVo
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details TiVo is a digital video recorder that allows viewers to watch what they want, when they want to watch it. Fourteen months into the launch, sales are very... -
X-IT Products, LLC
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Two entrepreneurs, Andrew Ive and Aldo DiBerlardino, are poised to launch their first product. The decisions they make will have a crucial impact on the... -
Merrick Pet Care: Trial, Error, and Success
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In 2014, Merrick Pet Care saw an opportunity to enter the oral pet care category by introducing dental brushes for dogs. Although its close connections... -
Barco Projection Systems (A): Worldwide Niche Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Deals with the issue of niche marketing in a worldwide market. Barco Projection Systems makes video, data, and graphics projectors for the industrial... -
Power Play (C): 3DO in 32-bit Video Games
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The 1980s were the "Nintendo" decade in video-games, while the early 1990s saw Sega rise to prominence on the basis of next-generation, 16-bit technology.... -
Goodyear: The Aquatred Launch
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details After many years of R&D, Goodyear has developed the Aquatred, an innovative new tire. However, the tire industry has matured and evolved, raising questions... -
SATTVA eTECH: Challenges in Embedded New Product Development
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details SATTVA eTECH is an electronics company involved in design and development of embedded new products. The company designs and manufactures client's requirements... -
Biopure Corp.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details It is early 1998 and Biopure Corp., a small biopharmaceutical firm with no sales revenues in its ten-year history, has just received government approval... -
Hewlett-Packard Imaging Systems Division: Sonos 100 C/F Introduction
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The marketing manager for the Imaging Systems business unit (ISY) at Hewlett-Packard Medical Products Group is considering channel strategy and channel... -
Researching and Monitoring Consumer Markets
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Describes the major research techniques for consumer goods new product development, i.e. pre-test markets and electronic purchase monitoring. Provides... -
Boeing 767: From Concept to Production (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Updates the (A) case to the present day. The issue facing students is whether Boeing's approach to managing new airplane programs must be modified to... -
TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details On August 1, 2007, 61-year-old Jan-Olaf Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with... -
Optical Distortion, Inc. (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details A new product, contact lenses for chickens, is to be introduced by a small firm formed to market the product. An entry strategy must be planned including... -
InvestorSoft
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details InvestorSoft is preparing to launch its one and only product, a subscription-based software service that will make it convenient and economical for companies...
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Nestle Refrigerated Foods: Contadina Pasta & Pizza (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Serious Materials
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Serious Materials is a start up who is moving into clean tech markets. The company's first product, QuietRock, originated the sound proofing drywall category... -
Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods, offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious... -
Loctite Corp.: Industrial Products Group
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details A new product introduction strategy covering all elements of the marketing mix must be planned for equipment designed to dispense industrial adhesives.... -
The Passion of the Christ (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Bob Berney, president of Newmarket Films, must decide on a distribution and marketing strategy for Mel Gibson's controversial new movie, The Passion of... -
Documentum, Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Describes Jeff Miller's attempt to implement Geoffrey Moore's crossing the chasm ideas at enterprise software vendor, Documentum. -
TiVo
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details TiVo is a digital video recorder that allows viewers to watch what they want, when they want to watch it. Fourteen months into the launch, sales are very... -
X-IT Products, LLC
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Two entrepreneurs, Andrew Ive and Aldo DiBerlardino, are poised to launch their first product. The decisions they make will have a crucial impact on the... -
Merrick Pet Care: Trial, Error, and Success
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In 2014, Merrick Pet Care saw an opportunity to enter the oral pet care category by introducing dental brushes for dogs. Although its close connections... -
Barco Projection Systems (A): Worldwide Niche Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Deals with the issue of niche marketing in a worldwide market. Barco Projection Systems makes video, data, and graphics projectors for the industrial...