Marketing
October 2013
Nokia Siemens Networks: Branding a Global Merger from the Inside Out
By Simona Botti, Nader Tavassoli, Gudrun Herrmann
A handful of global players dominated the telecommunications infrastructure industry in 2007. The benefits to scale were significant: substantial funding requirements were necessary to sustain continuous innovation and development of networks, products and services; key…
January 2019
Brand Valuation: What, How and Why?
By Nader Tavassoli
As Chief Marketing Officer of a privately held Swiss luxury goods company, Lena Müller was tasked with valuing the company’s brand, whose products traded under the same name as the company itself. The reason her…
January 2008
Silverglide Surgical Technologies (B)
By John Mullins
This is a two-case series. From a rocky perch above the city of Boulder, Colorado, Jon Thorne gazed across the city and onto the great plains that stretched eastward before him. ‘There’s nothing like a…
January 2008
Silverglide Surgical Technologies (A)
By John Mullins
This is a two-case series. From a rocky perch above the city of Boulder, Colorado, Jon Thorne gazed across the city and onto the great plains that stretched eastward before him. ‘There’s nothing like a…
August 2018
Pearl River Piano: Tuning in to the Global Market
By J B Steenkamp, Nirmalya Kumar
This case traces the rise of Chinese piano maker Pearl River Piano (PRP) from a factory with dirt floors producing just four pianos a month using crude machinery to the world’s largest acoustic piano maker…
August 2018
M-Pesa & Nick Hughes
By Lisa Duke, Rajesh Chandy
It was February 2009, and Nick Hughes, head of Global Payment Solutions at Vodafone, contemplated his notes as he waited to enter the company’s Executive Meeting at its headquarters in Newbury, amid the Berkshire countryside…
December 2018
M-KOPA Solar: Using Digital Disruption to Connect the World’s Poor
By Nader Tavassoli
Launched in East Africa, M-KOPA is an innovative pay-as-you-go solar system that provides reliable energy to low-income households. To serve these customers profitably, M-KOPA’s solution relies on digital innovation and the integrated adaptation of every…
August 2013
Galanz: From Price Killer to Consumer Brand Innovator?
By Nirmalya Kumar, J B Steenkamp, Jiaxun He
Chinese company Galanz was the world’s largest microwave oven manufacturer in 2013. It had sales of 20 million microwave ovens, group revenues of RMB46 billion (US$7.3 billion) and 46,000 employees. Founded in 1978, it started…
January 2012
Nespresso: What Else?
By Nader Tavassoli
In 2011 Nespresso, the premium single-serve coffee brand of the multinational Swiss company Nestle, found itself at a crossroads. Between 2006 and 2010 Nespresso had managed to nearly triple sales – from CHF1.16 billion to…