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Dunia Finance LLC (A), (B), and (C) - Teaching Note
Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Bodily, Samuel E.; Yemen, Gerry; Gibbs, SheaTeaching Note DARDEN-M-0842TN-EMarketingTeaching note for product M-0842Starting at €0.00
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Picante Mexican Grill: A New Delhi Experience
Raz, Gal; Weiss, Elliott N.; Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Bodily, Samuel E.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-OM-1520-EService and Operations ManagementModeled loosely after the American restaurant chain Chipotle, Picante Mexican Grill seeks to offer fresh and healthy vegetarian fast-food options. The owners of this start-up chain in Gurgaon, India, struggle to manage their quickly growing operation. As they consider expanding into new locations, diverse issues—including determining store hours, location, managing centralized production, and meeting staffing needs—challenge the entrepreneurial t...Starting at €8.20
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VinConnect, Inc.: Digital Marketing Strategy
Venkatesan, RajkumarCase DARDEN-M-0864-EMarketingThis case is used in the course elective "Big Data in Marketing." The VinConnect company helped European wineries sell their products directly by using it to facilitate the direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales model to American consumers via offers delivered in e-mail. Unfortunately, the number of purchases has not been as high as VinConnect's president had projected and the open rate for e-mails was high, so potential customers who received the offers...Starting at €8.20
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The Seven Questions of Marketing Strategy
Farris, Paul W.; Parry, Mark E.; Borden, Neil H. Jr.; Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Sharpe, Kathryn M.Technical Note DARDEN-M-0779-EMarketingThis simple model of marketing strategy can provide keys to creating a sustainable competitive advantage. Suitable for MBA and executive formats, this technical note demonstrates that individual marketing strategy concepts are interconnected, which renders the strategic process vulnerable to the political machinations of executives. Evolving customer needs and competitors' proactive efforts to steal market share require a dynamic marketing strate...Starting at €8.20
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Customer Insights
Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Kim, TamiExercise DARDEN-M-1013-EMarketingIn this set of three exercises, students are cast in the role of marketing manager of one of three product categories. They must choose a specific brand in their category and use research trend tools and Google Ads Keyword Planner to explore and analyze consumer demand, identify customer segments, research product features, identify competitors, and, finally, choose paid-search keywords. The exercises culminate in a presentation using the PowerPo...Starting at €8.20
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Customer Insights
Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Kim, TamiExercise DARDEN-M-1013MarketingIn this set of three exercises, students are cast in the role of marketing manager of one of three product categories. They must choose a specific brand in their category and use research trend tools and Google Ads Keyword Planner to explore and analyze consumer demand, identify customer segments, research product features, identify competitors, and, finally, choose paid-search keywords. The exercises culminate in a presentation using the PowerPo...Starting at €8.20
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Loma Vista Medical
Gompers, Paul A.; Kovvali, SilpaCase HBS-819050-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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Unused Coupons Still Pay Off
Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Farris, Paul W.Article HBS-F1205C-EMarketingConventional wisdom holds that manufacturers and retailers see little benefit from unused coupons, but new research shows that unredeemed coupons serve as advertisements to consumers. In an experiment with eight retailers, the authors analyzed campaigns involving more than 500,000 targeted coupons for items representing more than 300 brands, mailed out over a 16-month period. They found that consumers who received but did not redeem coupons still...Starting at €8.20
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The Other Diversity Dividend
Gompers, Paul A.; Kovvali, SilpaArticle HBS-R1804D-ELeadership and People ManagementResearchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship between diversity and financial performance--especially at large companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors chose a "lab rat" with fewer barriers to understanding: the venture capital industry. VC firms are fairly flat: Every investor is a decision maker, and choices have clear business cons...Starting at €8.20
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The Entrepreneurial Manager: Course Overview, 2019 Spring Term
Gompers, Paul A.Case HBS-818080-EEntrepreneurshipThis note serves as an overview of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit's required curriculum course, "The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM)." General management has been a core educational organizing framework at the Harvard Business School since its inception. Today TEM provides a powerful context in which to learn about general management. TEM seeks to build the knowledge, skills, tools, frameworks, and attitudes required to succeed as a manager. T...Starting at €8.20