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- March 2022
- Teaching Note
Allianz Customer Centricity: Is Simplicity the Way Forward?
By: Eva Ascarza
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-008.
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- July 2021 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Allianz Customer Centricity: Is Simplicity the Way Forward?
By: Eva Ascarza and Emilie Billaud
This case explores the tradeoffs between product personalization and simplicity as companies grow. The case presents an opportunity to understand whether and how each of these approaches enables and/or limits companies’ abilities to provide customer satisfaction while...
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- January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
- Teaching Note
Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods
By: Jill Avery
Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods (CPG), offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products delivered directly to their homes with the simplicity of one fixed $3.00 price point that promised...
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- November 2017 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods
By: Jill Avery
Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods, offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products delivered directly to their homes with the simplicity of one fixed $3 price point that promised an...
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Keywords:
Brand;
Brand Management;
Retailing;
Retailing Industry;
Private Label;
Direct To Consumer Marketing;
Ecommerce;
Digital Marketing;
Consumer Packaged Goods;
Startup;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Disruption;
Food;
Product Marketing;
Marketing Channels;
Consumer Behavior;
Brands and Branding;
Venture Capital;
E-commerce;
Consumer Products Industry;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Retail Industry;
United States;
North America
- June 2012
- Article
Leadership Is a Conversation
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course of a recent research project, the authors concluded that by talking with employees, rather than...
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- July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!
By: Willy Shih
For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical...
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- June 1994 (Revised October 1999)
- Background Note
Beer Game, The: Board Version
The beer game is an exercise that demonstrates supply channel dynamics. Simulates the flow of material and information in a simplified channel of beer production and distribution, focusing on the linkages among a beer manufacturer, its distributors, a wholesaler, and a...
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- Forthcoming
- Article
The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences
By: Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde
This paper presents an experimentally validated survey module to measure six key economic preferences—risk aversion, discounting, trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity—in a reliable, parsimonious and cost-effective way. The survey instruments included in...
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