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1) Avon Products China (A)
Lynn Sharp Paine; Jennifer Benqing Gui
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-300-053 Pub. Date: December 22, 1999
Length: 27p
When the Chinese central government bans all forms of direct selling in China in April 1998,
executives at Avon China must decide how to respond.... Avon Products China (B)

2) Amway Japan Ltd.
David J. Arnold; John A. Quelch; Yoshinori Fujikawa; Patrick Reinmoller
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-598-029 Pub. Date: February 23, 1998
Length: 27p
In April 1997, the president of Amway Japan (AJL, Tokyo, Japan), pondered how to reverse the first performance decline the company has...

3) Customer Profitability and Lifetime Value
Elie Ofek
Product Type: Note
Product#: 9-503-019 Pub. Date: August 07, 2002
Length: 9p
Introduces the central concepts involved in determining customer lifetime value, with detailed analysis and examples from the realm of direct...

4) DoubleClick, Inc.: Gathering Customer Intelligence
Scott Schneberger; Ken Mark
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 901E05 Pub. Date: February 14, 2001
Length: 16p
DoubleClick, Inc., with global headquarters in New York City and over 30 offices around the world, was a leading provider of comprehensive...

5) Cofidis
Luc Wathieu
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-501-055 Pub. Date: January 22, 2001
Length: 19p
An offspring of French catalog marketer 3 Suisses, and a popular sponsor of Tour de France, Cofidis sells consumer credit over the phone, defying...

6) BizRate.com
Youngme Moon
Product Type: Other
Product#: 9-501-024 Pub. Date: October 10, 2000
Length: 22p
BizRate is a market research firm that collects point-of-purchase customer feedback data from retailing merchants. It then makes its findings...

7) Freeport Studio
Rajiv Lal; James B. Weber
Product Type: Other
Product#: 9-501-021 Pub. Date: September 05, 2000
Length: 27p
Describes the start-up and first year difficulties of Freeport Studio, a unit of L.L. Bean, founded in 1998 to sell women's clothing by catalog....

8) yesmail.com
Luc Wathieu
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-500-092 Pub. Date: March 22, 2000
Length: 15p
David Tolmie wants yesmail.com to become a leader in "permission marketing." Yesmail sends clients' promotional email messages to targeted...

9) Alloy.com: Marketing to Generation Y
John Deighton; Gil McWilliams
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-500-048 Pub. Date: January 05, 2000
Length: 14p
A profitable dot com? Alloy.com retails clothing to teens by catalog. Alloy uses a Web site to convert prospects and build community. The result...

10) Hunter Business Group: TeamTBA
Das Narayandas; Elizabeth Caputo
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-500-030 Pub. Date: December 01, 1999
Length: 16p
The Hunter Business Group (HBG), a direct marketing consulting firm specializing in reorganizing the sales and marketing efforts of industrial...

11) Interactive Technologies and Relationship Marketing Strategies
Youngme Moon
Product Type: Note
Product#: 9-599-101 Pub. Date: March 27, 1999
Length: 12p
Outlines the role of interactive technologies in the development of relationship marketing strategies.

12) St. Clair Interactive Communications

Sid L. Huff; David Koltermann
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 98E002 Pub. Date: November 11, 1998
Length: 27p
St. Clair Interactive was in the business of designing, manufacturing, selling, installing, and maintaining multimedia transactional kiosks. Such...

13) Dell Computer: Inspiron Product Development
Jacquelyn S. Thomas; Michael Rosenstein
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: M293 Pub. Date: September 01, 1998
Length: 22p
Describes the organizational, strategic, and tactical challenges that Dell Computer faces as it develops a new laptop computer that is targeted...


14) Bronner Slosberg Humphrey
David E. Bell; Donald M. Leavitt
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-598-136 Pub. Date: March 25, 1998
Length: 22p
Bronner Slosberg Humphrey has succeeded by providing integrated direct marketing solutions for major service companies such as AT&T, American...

15) SITEL Corp.
Howard H. Stevenson; Martha Gershun
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-898-153 Pub. Date: February 24, 1998
Length: 24p
SITEL has grown extremely rapidly and is now operating worldwide with operations in over 30 countries. Since many of its locations serve the same...

16) Frontgate Catalog
Jeffrey F. Rayport; Carrie L. Ardito
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-898-080 Pub. Date: January 28, 1998
Length: 36p
Frontgate is a high-end, Lebanon, Ohio-based catalog. The decision-makers are trying to determine how much financial and personnel resources to...

17) Charles Veillon, S.A. (A)
Lynn Sharp Paine; Howard Firestone Reitz
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-398-011 Pub. Date: September 26, 1997
Length: 31p
The top management team at Charles Veillon, a Swiss mail order company, is considering whether to work with a human rights organization to... Charles Veillon, S.A. (B)

18) First Direct (A)
Jeffrey F. Rayport; Dickson L. Louie
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-897-079 Pub. Date: February 19, 1997
Length: 30p
Describes the operations and strategy of the world's largest, fastest growing branchless bank. Using a person-to-person interface over... First Direct (B)

19) Note on Marketing and the Internet

John Deighton; John Barabino; Alison Berkley
Product Type: Note
Product#: 9-597-037 Pub. Date: December 03, 1996
Length: 16p
The World Wide Web is new, a comprehensive marketing environment. It is a medium for direct marketing, for retailing and distribution, for the...

20) Project "Dial-Tone"
William A. Sahlman; Andrew Janower
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-897-003 Pub. Date: November 12, 1996
Length: 21p
Bob Hellman, a partner in a West Coast middle-market buyout firm, is attempting to simultaneously acquire and merge three disparate firms in the...

21) Edmund's--www.edmunds.com
John J. Sviokla
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-397-016 Pub. Date: July 22, 1996
Length: 14p
Describes a firm that publishes an automobile price guide in books (600,000 units per year) and over the Internet (16,000 users a day and... Edmund's--www.edmunds.com, Supplement

22) Trans National Group
Christopher A. Bartlett; Takia Mahmood
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-397-015 Pub. Date: July 12, 1996
Length: 18p
Focuses on the changing role of Steve Belkin as the CEO of Trans National (TN). Starting as a classic entrepreneur, he drives the company through...

23) Dell Computer Corp.
Das Narayandas; V. Kasturi Rangan
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-596-058 Pub. Date: October 17, 1995
Length: 23p
Traces the evolution of the personal computer industry over the last 20 years and uses this as a backdrop to look at how Dell Computer Corp. grew...

24) Passion for Learning
Anita McGahan; Dale O. Coxe; Israel Ganot; Greg Keller
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-796-057 Pub. Date: August 21, 1995
Length: 17p
Describes the challenges confronting a recent HBS graduate who has started a direct-mail toy company. The entrepreneur must evaluate industry...

25) Avalon Information Services, Inc.
Lynn Sharp Paine; Wilda L. White
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-395-036 Pub. Date: January 10, 1995
Length: 17p
The Privacy Review Committee of Avalon Information Services must decide how to deal with concerns voiced by its retail supermarket customers...

26) Note on the Mail Order Industry
David E. Bell; Dinny Starr Gordon
Product Type: Note
Product#: 9-595-014 Pub. Date: July 12, 1994
Length: 15p
Serves as a general introduction to catalog and mail-order sales. Identifies trends in the United States and Europe over the past few years...

27) The King-Size Co.
David E. Bell; Dinny Starr Gordon
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-595-013 Pub. Date: July 12, 1994
Length: 23p
King-Size is a mail-order company specializing in apparel for big and tall men. The case describes their operations in some detail. Issues...


28) Flanders of Springfield
Arthur Schleifer Jr.
Product Type: Case (Gen Exp)
Product#: 9-894-005 Pub. Date: August 04, 1993
Length: 8p
Flanders is a catalog merchandiser. Various decisions on catalog distribution policy, ordering and inventory policy, and catalog format design...

29) Harlequin Romances--Poland (A)

John A. Quelch; Nathalie Laidler
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-594-017 Pub. Date: July 22, 1993
Length: 26p
Harlequin Enterprises, the world's leading publisher of series romances, has been particularly successful in Poland. The case explores some of... Harlequin Romances--Poland (B)

30) MathSoft, Inc. (A): Mathcad Demonstration, Video
Mathsoft
Product Type: Case Video
Product#: 9-593-518 Pub. Date: May 07, 1993
Length: 17 min
Presents a demonstration of MathSoft's software product.

31) MathSoft, Inc. (A)
V. Kasturi Rangan; Gordon Swartz
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-593-094 Pub. Date: April 30, 1993
Length: 24p
MathSoft's VP of sales has doubled the size of the company's direct field sales force to support the launch of a new, high-end workstation... MathSoft, Inc. (B)
MathSoft, Inc. (A): Mathcad Demonstration, Video

32) L.L. Bean, Inc.: Item Forecasting and Inventory Management
Arthur Schleifer Jr.
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-893-003 Pub. Date: October 27, 1992
Length: 5p
L.L. Bean must make stocking decisions on thousands of items sold through its catalogs. In many cases, orders must be placed with vendors twelve...

33) International Airlines
Thomas O. Jones
Product Type: Case (Gen Exp)
Product#: 9-693-045 Pub. Date: September 25, 1992
Length: 15p
A frequent flyer for a large international airline encounters typical, but recurring, service problems. The marketing management of the company...

34) Vintage Directions, Inc.
Howard H. Stevenson; Laura Pochop
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-393-043 Pub. Date: September 22, 1992
Length: 33p
Focuses on the problem of determining whether to continue with a start-up after the first market test. The company has seen product success but...


35) Maison Bouygues
John A. Quelch; Greg Conley
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-592-059 Pub. Date: January 06, 1992
Length: 22p
The vice president of marketing is reviewing the 1991 marketing plan and budget for Maison Bouygues, the leading builder of new single family...

36) Lotus MarketPlace: Households
Lynn Sharp Paine; Lexanne J. Abbott
Product Type: Case (Library)
Product#: 9-392-026 Pub. Date: October 22, 1991
Length: 23p
Managers at Lotus and Equifax must decide what to do about their new jointly developed database and software product Lotus MarketPlace which has...

37) National Demographics & Lifestyles (B)
Michael J. Roberts
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-390-006 Pub. Date: July 11, 1989
Length: 21p
Picks up where National Demographics & Lifestyles (A) left off, describing the company's financing and very successful performance through...

38) National Demographics & Lifestyles (A)
Michael J. Roberts; Ennis J. Walton
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-388-043 Pub. Date: October 02, 1987
Length: 24p
Describes National Demographics and Lifestyles (NDL), a Colorado-based company that compiles a database from product "warranty registration...

39) Wright Line, Inc. (B)
E. Raymond Corey
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-586-143 Pub. Date: March 03, 1986
Length: 6p
After working unsuccessfully for three years with the new sales and distribution channels organization, Wright Line's managers assess their...

40) Wright Line, Inc. (A)
E. Raymond Corey; Constance M. Kinnear
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-585-135 Pub. Date: November 14, 1984
Length: 34p
The Wright Line division of Barry Wright sells accessories used to store, protect, and provide access to computer media such as cards, tapes, and...

41) Ruth M. Owades
Howard H. Stevenson; Richard O. Von Werssowetz; Robert W. Kent
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-383-051 Pub. Date: November 01, 1982
Length: 18p
Ruth Owades developed a concept for a new mail order venture offering gardening products. Her current employer turned down the idea, so with...


42) SafeCard Services, Inc.
Norman J. Bartczak
Product Type: Case (Library)
Product#: 9-182-156 Pub. Date: December 15, 1981
Length: 32p
SafeCard is a rapidly growing service company engaged in direct mail marketing. Professor Briloff is an outspoken accounting critic and accuses...

43) L.L. Bean, Inc.: Corporate Strategy
Hirotaka Takeuchi; Penny Pittman Merliss
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-581-159 Pub. Date: June 01, 1981
Length: 26p
L.L. Bean, Inc., a Maine-based manufacturer and mail-order retailer of sporting goods and apparel, has grown from $3 million in sales (1967) to...

44) L.L. Bean, Inc.
Frank L. Tucker
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-366-013 Pub. Date: August 20, 1965
Length: 11p
Discusses the development and operations of a small manufacturing and mail order company doing $3 million sales. L.L. Bean operates in violation...

45) Akamai Technologies
Thomas Eisenmann
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-802-132 Pub. Date: February 11, 2002
Length: 25p
As the leading content delivery network, Akamai helps Internet companies deliver web site content to end users with fewer delays and lower costs....

46) Z Corp.
Joseph B. Lassiter III; Matthew C. Lieb
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-801-210 Pub. Date: October 02, 2000
Length: 20p
Tom Clay, president of Z Corp. and founder/CEO Marina Hatsopolous must decide between using a direct sales force or using a value-added reseller...

47) Bonny Doon Vineyards
Amy J. Hillman; Gerry Keim; Kay Glasgow
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 900A18 Pub. Date: July 20, 2000
Length: 19p
A small, founder-centered business, which is increasingly facing competitive imitation of its core activities, is at a crossroads. Expansion...

48) Hewlett-Packard Imaging Systems Division: Sonos 100 C/F Introduction
Frank V. Cespedes; Marie Bell
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-593-080 Pub. Date: February 22, 1993
Length: 19p
The marketing manager for the Imaging Systems business unit (ISY) at Hewlett-Packard Medical Products Group is considering channel strategy and...


49) Kanthal (A)

Robert S. Kaplan
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-190-002 Pub. Date: July 27, 1989
Length: 13p
Multinational company needs an improved cost system to determine the profitability of individual customer orders. Its strategy is to have... Kanthal (B)

50) Electrolux Corp. (A)
Frank S. Leonard; Steven C. Wheelwright; Richard L. Brewer
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-687-095 Pub. Date: May 11, 1987
Length: 33p
Describes the manufacturing turnaround situation at Electrolux, a designer/manufacturer and direct sales force distributor of vacuum cleaners. A...

51) BOC Group: Ohmeda (A)

Rowland T. Moriarty Jr.; Gordon Swartz
Product Type: Case (Field)
Product#: 9-587-080 Pub. Date: September 25, 1986
Length: 26p
The president of Ohmeda, a wholly owned company of the BOC Group, plans to grow the company's medical equipment sales from $95 million in 1985 to... BOC Group: Ohmeda (B)