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A Step-by-Step Guide to Smart Business Experiments (Spanish version)
Anderson, Eric T.; Simester, DuncanArticle HBS-R1103HMarketingTake one action with one group of customers, a different action (or no action at all) with a control group of customers, and then compare the results. The feedback from even a handful of experiments can yield immediate and dramatic improvements. In this article, the authors provide a step-by-step guide to conducting business experiments. They look at organizational obstacles to success and outline seven rules to follow.Starting at €8.20
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Smart Business Experiments
Anderson, Eric T.; Simester, DuncanArticle HBS-R1103H-EMarketingThe power of analytics in decision making is well understood, but few companies have what it takes to successfully implement a complex analytics program. Most firms will get greater value from learning to do something simpler: basic business experiments. Managers need to become adept at routinely using techniques employed by scientists and medical researchers. Specifically, they need to embrace the "test and learn" approach: Take one action with ...Starting at €8.20
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Escaping the Discount Trap (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Anderson, Eric T.Article HBS-R1309L-EMarketingBrazilian medical-devices maker Bosi e Faora has seen its prices decline as its sales reps scramble to sign up clinics by offering steep discounts. The company aims to turn things around with a "solutions" strategy that, along with medical equipment, offers ideas and training to health care providers that want to improve patients' overall health, not just purchase hardware. When one semirural but influential customer resists the upsell at a high-...Starting at €8.20
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Escaping the Discount Trap (HBR Case Study)
Anderson, Eric T.Article HBS-R1309X-EMarketingBrazilian medical-devices maker Bosi e Faora has seen its prices decline as its sales reps scramble to sign up clinics by offering steep discounts. The company aims to turn things around with a "solutions" strategy that, along with medical equipment, offers ideas and training to health care providers that want to improve patients' overall health, not just purchase hardware. When one semirural but influential customer resists the upsell at a high-...Starting at €8.20
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Escaping the Discount Trap (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Anderson, Eric T.Article HBS-R1309Z-EMarketingBrazilian medical-devices maker Bosi e Faora has seen its prices decline as its sales reps scramble to sign up clinics by offering steep discounts. The company aims to turn things around with a "solutions" strategy that, along with medical equipment, offers ideas and training to health care providers that want to improve patients' overall health, not just purchase hardware. When one semirural but influential customer resists the upsell at a high-...Starting at €8.20
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Coca-Cola India: More than Just Sugar and Fizz
Sandeep Puri; Archit Kacker; Shreya GuptaCase IVEY-9B18A013-EMarketing, StrategyWhen the chief executive officer of The Coca-Cola Company made his maiden visit to India in August 2017, it was clear that he wanted the Indian branch of the company, Coca-Cola India Private Limited, to achieve many ambitious goals. These included reducing the sugar content in the company’s products, introducing more juice-based drinks and water, and making small entries into the dairy segment. For a company that had long stressed its carbonated ...Starting at €8.20
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Coca-Cola India's Frozen Dessert Plan Heats Up Competition - Teaching Note
Sandeep Puri; Shreya Gupta; Archit KackerTeaching Note IVEY-8B18A050-EMarketingTeaching note for product 9B18A050.Starting at €0.00
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Coca-Cola India: More than Just Sugar and Fizz - Teaching Note
Sandeep Puri; Archit Kacker; Shreya GuptaTeaching Note IVEY-8B18A013-EMarketingTeaching note for product 9B18A013.Starting at €0.00
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Coca-Cola India's Frozen Dessert Plan Heats Up Competition
Sandeep Puri; Shreya Gupta; Archit KackerCase IVEY-9B18A050-EMarketingIn November 2017, Coca-Cola India Private Limited (Coca-Cola India) laid out a plan for the next summer-the introduction of a whipped frozen fruit dessert. Minute Maid Perfect Fruit, which Coca-Cola India planned to launch in India's top 10 cities in 2018, was to be an extension of the company’s Minute Maid brand. Coca-Cola India also intended to expand Maaza, its fruit drink brand, with two new variants. These extensions were to be part of the c...Starting at €8.20