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Going Social: Durex in China
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Smith, AaronCase HBS-714430-EStrategyWhen Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a leading consumer goods company, first entered China, it encountered significant challenges. RB's strategy relied on selling high margin products supported by cost-effective advertising and distribution, but the highly competitive Chinese market made it hard to sustain high margins, inflated television advertising rates made marketing expensive, and an inefficient distribution system increased costs further. In 2010,...Starting at €8.20
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Zopa: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Lending
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Fernandez-Mateo, Isabel; Chen, DavidCase HBS-709469-EStrategyZopa, a U.K.-based peer-to-peer lending company, connected individual lenders and borrowers via an online interface. The company charged a small fee for completed loan transactions but has not turned a profit. Zopa offered two platforms, Markets and Listings. Markets was an automated system that assembled loans by combining lowest loan offers from different Zopa lenders. Zopa Listings allowed prospective borrowers to post eBay-like listings expla...Starting at €8.20
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Zopa: el poder del préstamo de persona a persona
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Fernandez-Mateo, Isabel; Chen, DavidCase HBS-712S02StrategyZopa, una compañía de préstamos peer-to-peer basado en Reino Unido se, conectado prestamistas y prestatarios individuales a través de una interfaz en línea. La empresa cobrará una pequeña cuota para las transacciones de préstamo completa, pero no se ha vuelto un beneficio. Zopa ofreció dos plataformas, mercados y anuncios. Mercados era un sistema automatizado que ensambla los préstamos mediante la combinación de ofertas de préstamos más bajas de ...Starting at €8.20
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Social Strategy at Nike (Spanish version)
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Johnson, RyanCase HBS-716S13StrategyNike, which first started experimenting with social media and networking in 2004, has been consistently reducing its spending on traditional advertising. Yet, Nike has not pulled back on its overall marketing budget, instead opting to focus on "nontraditional" advertising through new mediums. In doing so, the team hoped to build online communities to foster a closer relationship with its consumers. By 2012 Nike had committed to a social strategy ...Starting at €8.20