HBS Case: AQUALISA QUARTZ – SIMPLY A BETTER SHOWER. 1. (A) After spending 5.8 million developing the Quartz‚ the product is definitely worth the investment because (1) The Quartz is the product that answer directly to the customer needs and wants. Most consumers need and want the product that can fix the problems – poor pressure‚ fluctuations in pressure and tolerance in using. (2) Choosing a shower brand depends mostly on which brand plumbers are familiar to so with new technology of the
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Lecture 10: Product Team Cialis: Getting Ready to Market (case 12) 1-) The most relevant dimensions along which to segment the patient market for the Erectile Dysfuction (ED) treatment are demographic‚ psychographic and behavioral dimensions. With demographic segmentation‚ we divide the market into groups on the basis of variables such as age‚ family size‚ family life cycle‚ gender‚ income‚ occupation‚ education‚ religion‚ race‚ generation‚ nationality and social class. The prevalence of
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spokesman Jeff Cook said.(1*)QuestionWhat would be the most effective way to position Cialis in the marketplace?•I suppose that Cialis should follow directly compete strategy and go head by head with Viagra ’s positioning. •Aggressive marketing campaign in US‚ what naturally bleeds into Europe‚ and educational campaigns in other countries (educating partners)•Cialis should emphasize lifestyle and inspirational images•Cialis should emphasize no side effects‚ shorter
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Product Team Cialis: Getting Ready to Market MKT Q1. In 2002‚ Viagra was the only clinically proven‚ FDA approved medication for Erectile Dysfunction (ED) on the market (Cialis – Dec 2003‚ Levitra – Sept 2003). Viagra had the highest brand recognition of any pharmaceutical product on the market. It had generated over one billion dollars in annual sales for 3 consecutive years since its introduction in 1998. In 2002‚ Viagra accounted for 5.3% ($1.73 billion) in sales of Pfizer’s annual
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Midland Resources 1. How are Mortensen’s estimates of Midland’s costs of capital used? How‚ if at all‚ should these anticipated uses affect the calculations? The cost of capital is the minimum acceptable rate of return for new investments in the corporation. Estimates of Midland’s cost of capital are used in many analysis within Midland‚ including asset appraisal for both capital budgeting and financial accounting‚ performance assessments‚ M&A proposals‚ and stock repurchase decisions. These
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-MFS- 1. Does the MFS system have weak or strong pay-to-performance? What type of behavior does the MFS system motivate? Basically‚ culture of MFS is focused on teamwork and community so that MFS manages their employees very fair and its compensation system also reflects this characteristic. For sustaining this team –based culture of MFS‚ which don’t prefer star(anti star culture)‚ MFS assesses their employees to the ways that not only fund-performance(performance factor) but also contribution
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1.i. Test Marketing Expense: These can be identified as sunk costs‚ using the with-or-without test. These costs were undertaken to determine whether the Super project was feasible‚ and would exist even if the project were deemed unfeasible. 1.ii. Overhead Expenses: Mr. Sanberg proposed to include these in the fully allocated method used in Alternative III. However‚ we believe that these expenses have already been attributed to the Jell-O line of products‚ and the data does not explicitly provide
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The Problem The joint venture company between Eli Lilly and ICOS has been successful in completing development of a male impotency drug with significantly improved benefits over the market leading drug in the category – Viagra1. However‚ the company is faced with the challenge of launching the drug in a market with a highly successful and established brand. Positioning of the drug‚ and marketing its value proposition to the most appropriate target market is key to the successful launch of the product
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1. Having in regard all the information that is given in the Case Study‚ what is‚ in your opinion‚ the best Investor/Partner choice for NatuRi Corporation? Is it the Angel Investor‚ the Strategic Investor‚ Waltham Partners or Westlake Partners? Please justify your answers. We are going to discuss each investor separately before coming to our conclusion. 1. The Angel Investor An angel investor bears extremely high risk and is usually subject to dilution from future investment rounds. Therefore
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Case Study Analysis HBS: The Coop: Market Research Case Study Analysis HBS: The Coop: Market Research Task 1 Decision Statement of the Coop. Where and how should the Coop invest money to retain the sales to their normal level? Why it is important to the company? The Coop had been going through an impressive growth since the foundation of the restaurant chain in 1974. However‚ about 20 years later‚ it found itself struggling with a sharp decrease in sales of certain restaurants that represented
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