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Domino’s Pizza Japan: Fortressing or Market Expansion? - Teaching Note
Paul W. Beamish; Colette Southam; Alex BeamishTeaching Note IVEY-8B21M028-EMarketing, StrategyTeaching note for product 9B21M028.Starting at €0.00
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Tilt, 8. Knowing Who Your Competitors Are
Dawar, NirajBook Chapter HBS-0011BC-EMarketingTilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers is an 11-chapter book published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and written by Niraj Dawar, professor of marketing at the Ivey School of Business. The author presents his theory on how sustainable competitive advantage depends today on a company's ability to tilt, or shift, its business model from product innovation to value innovation. He explains that, unlike the traditional focus...Starting at €8.20
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A Better Way to Map Brand Strategy
Dawar, Niraj; Bagga, CharanArticle HBS-R1506G-EMarketingCompanies may want to shift a brand's position--to exploit less crowded territory, for example, or grow sales. Companies have long used perceptual mapping to understand how consumers feel about their brands relative to competitors', to find gaps in the marketplace, and to develop brand positions. But the business value of these maps is limited because they fail to link a brand's market position to business performance metrics such as pricing and ...Starting at €8.20
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Marketing in the Age of Alexa
Dawar, NirajArticle HBS-R1803E-EMarketingOver the next decade, as artificially intelligent assistants like Alexa and Siri become the main channel through which people get information, goods, and services, the way companies acquire, serve, and retain customers will radically change. Because the bots will have deep knowledge about individuals' habits and preferences, they'll be able to anticipate a consumer's needs even better than the consumer herself can. They'll ensure that routine pur...Starting at €8.20
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Domino’s Pizza Japan: Fortressing or Market Expansion? (Spanish version)
Paul W. Beamish; Colette Southam; Alex BeamishCase IVEY-W29925Entrepreneurship, MarketingIn late 2018, the chief executive officer and president of Domino's Pizza Japan Inc. was convinced that a substantial expansion in the Japanese market was needed and feasible for continued growth. His company had already grown to nearly 550 stores across Japan, which was over double the number only five years earlier. The company had numerous opportunities to grow further, including opening new markets; opening stores closer to the company's cust...Starting at €8.20
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Mattel and the Toy Recalls (B)
Hari Bapuji; Paul W. BeamishCase IVEY-9B08M011-EMarketing, Service and Operations Management, StrategyThis case, which outlines the product recall, is a supplement to Mattel and the Toy Recalls (A).Starting at €5.74
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Domino’s Pizza Japan: Fortressing or Market Expansion?
Paul W. Beamish; Colette Southam; Alex BeamishCase IVEY-9B21M028-EMarketing, StrategyIn late 2018, the chief executive officer and president of Domino's Pizza Japan Inc. was convinced that a substantial expansion in the Japanese market was needed and feasible for continued growth. His company had already grown to nearly 550 stores across Japan, which was over double the number only five years earlier. The company had numerous opportunities to grow further, including opening new markets; opening stores closer to the company's cust...Starting at €8.20
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Tilt, 1. Finding the New Locus of Competitive Advantage
Dawar, NirajBook Chapter HBS-0002BC-EMarketingChapter 1, Finding the New Locus of Competitive Advantage (28 pages), presents a review of the upstream-versus-downstream spectrum and guides managers in identifying where their businesses lie on the spectrum. He illustrates the development of a successful downstream strategy with Nestle's response to a mature instant coffee market by inventing a new customer value: easy and authentic at-home espresso brewing. He reviews the history of the indust...Starting at €8.20
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Tilt, 3. Seizing the Downstream Advantage
Dawar, NirajBook Chapter HBS-0004BC-EMarketingIn Chapter 3, Seizing the Downstream Advantage (10 pages), the author looks at the unique value of customer-focused strategies. He explains that to create a successful tilt strategy, a company must categorize its company's resources as either upstream or downstream. While an upstream strategy focuses on products and production, the downstream strategy involves a company's knowledge of and relationship with customers. The author then analyzes both...Starting at €8.20
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Tilt, 4. Seeing New Value in Your Customers
Dawar, NirajBook Chapter HBS-0005BC-EMarketingChapter 4, Seeing New Value in Your Customers (22 pages), launches a three-chapter exploration of how successful companies create competitive advantage using their market and customer data. The author argues that a company's ability to aggregate data to reveal patterns and changes across its customer base is an important proprietary asset. Advances in technology have revolutionized how a business can collect and use a greater volume and range of ...Starting at €8.20