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Moore, Marian Chapman

A Note on Market Definition, Segmentation, and Targeting: Three (of Four) Steps in Developing Marketing Strategy

Moore, Marian Chapman; Whitler, Kimberly A.

M-0895 | Published January 14, 2016 | 13 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

Marketing strategy, part of the marketing planning process, flows directly from a company's goals and helps define how the marketing organization will help the firm achieve its objectives. Marketing ... Read More

Your Professional Brand: Creating a Brand Essence Statement for Your Internship

Whitler, Kimberly A.; Moore, Marian Chapman

M-0881 | Published October 19, 2015 | 3 pages Exercise

Collection: Darden School of Business

Although not all MBA students end up working in a marketing function and/or on a brand per se, all students will develop a professional brand, whether it is proactively built or created through happen... Read More

Your Professional Brand: Creating a Brand Essence Statement for Your Career

Whitler, Kimberly A.; Moore, Marian Chapman

M-0887 | Published October 19, 2015 | 3 pages Exercise

Collection: Darden School of Business

Although not all MBA students end up working in a marketing function and/or on a brand per se, all students will develop a professional brand, whether it is proactively built or created through happen... Read More

Land O'Lakes: The Search for Growth

Moore, Marian Chapman; Liedtka, Jeanne M.; West, Mimi

S-0248 | Published May 29, 2015 | 5 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This field-based case is one of three available case-based simulations that can be used as the basis for a multisession course on design thinking (alongside “Design Thinking at Arena Industries: Desig... Read More

Makeup Shake-Up: The Challenge of Multichannel Marketing

Farris, Paul W.; Moore, Marian C.; Bunyan, Cara; Fineo, Kenneth

M-0865 | Published February 17, 2014 | 27 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Multichannel retail shopping is quickly becoming the norm for consumers in many industries. Multichannel shopping, however, has the potential to frustrate the historical "house of brands" strategies t... Read More

PLBsearch: Growing with LinkedIn

Murray, Meghan; Moore, Marian Chapman

M-0858 | Published November 05, 2013 | 10 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case is used in Darden's "Digital Marketing" course elective. It explores the experience of a niche search firm whose founder attributed her ability to open her recruiting firm to LinkedIn and th... Read More

ZYRTEC: Responding to Allegra

Moore, Marian Chapman; Bergqvist, Karin; Li, Angela

M-0847 | Published September 04, 2013 | 22 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

In April 2010, the ZYRTEC brand manager at Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare, learned that Sanofi's Allegra, the leading brand in the prescription antihistamine category, was anticipated ... Read More

Altamar Brands and Absinthe: Feeding "the Green Fairy"

Moore, Marian Chapman; Correll, Brooke

M-0844 | Published March 20, 2013 | 11 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

In May 2007, Altamar Brands signed a contract to represent Kübler Absinthe in the United States. The next month, U.S. consumers greeted the news of absinthe's legalization with abandon. Industry veter... Read More

Wheaties: Reinvigorating an Iconic Brand (A)

Moore, Marian Chapman; Weinberg, Adam

M-0828 | Published September 11, 2012 | 7 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case series is taught in Darden's course elective, Managing Consumer Brands. In the spring of 2008, the marketing editor for Wheaties was getting ready for a meeting to discuss ideas about how to... Read More

Wheaties: Reinvigorating an Iconic Brand (B)

Moore, Marian Chapman; Weinberg, Adam

M-0829 | Published September 11, 2012 | 1 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

The marketing manager and the Wheaties brand team launched a line extension they believed would bolster the legendary brand. Wheaties FUEL, a ready-to-eat cereal targeted specifically toward men and d... Read More

Wheaties: Reinvigorating an Iconic Brand (C)

Moore, Marian Chapman; Weinberg, Adam; Tang, Jeff

M-0830 | Published September 11, 2012 | 5 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

The results were not promising following the initial campaign and launch of Wheaties FUEL as sales dipped five months after it had been put on store shelves. Still there was a 96% incremental gain in ... Read More

Wal-Mart Sustainability Through Lightbulbs: Flickering Out?

Moore, Marian Chapman; Norton, Tucker

M-0801 | Published February 20, 2012 | 14 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) were a signature piece in Wal-Mart's sustainability effort, and although by October 2007, Wal-Mart's goal of selling 100 million CFLs had been achieved, the acco... Read More

The Customer-Focused Growth Project

Moore, Marian Chapman; Urbany, Joel E.

M-0798 | Published January 20, 2012 | 19 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This note guides students or Executive Education participants through an exercise to help identify growth opportunities for their business units. The Customer-Focused Growth Project consists of 10 ste... Read More

Brooke Correll and Clos Du Val: Adventures in Napa Valley (A) and (B) (Condensed)

Moore, Marian Chapman

M-0788 | Published February 02, 2011 | 18 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

An established winery's first marketing director is charged with reviving the once-hot brand. Cofoun Read More

Philip Morris USA: Life After the Master Settlement Agreement (A)

Moore, Marian Chapman; Wicks, Andrew C.; Powell, Elizabeth A.; Correll, Brooke

S-0157 | Published March 25, 2010 | 12 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

When Philip Morris USA (PMUSA) president and CEO Michael Symanczyk took office in 1997, he began to re-envision how to take his company forward in the midst of public outrage over the negative health ... Read More

Brooke Correll and Clos Du Val: Adventures in Napa Valley (C)

Moore, Marian Chapman; Glinska, Gosia

M-0749 | Published November 29, 2007 | 9 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

In this three-part case, an established winery's first marketing director is charged with reviving t Read More

Linking Products and Consumers: The Consumer Benefit Ladder Approach

Moore, Marian Chapman

M-0750 | Published September 19, 2007 | 6 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This note provides a brief overview of the consumer benefit ladder (CBL) technique, a tool used to uncover why consumers buy particular products or services. CBLs are similar to means-end chains, hier... Read More

Green Ox

Moore, Marian Chapman; Wilcox, Ronald T.; Henderson, Geraldine

M-0722 | Published July 11, 2007 | 9 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

"Green Ox" was written specifically for a midterm exam in an MBA marketing management class. Rather than focus on one particular concept or issue (e.g., segmentation, product line depth), the case cha... Read More

Brooke Correll and Clos Du Val: Adventures in Napa Valley (B)

Moore, Marian Chapman; Glinska, Gosia

M-0742 | Published April 17, 2007 | 9 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

In this three-part case, an established winery's first marketing director is charged with reviving t Read More

Positioning: The Essence of Marketing Strategy

Moore, Marian Chapman; Helstein, Richard

M-0754 | Published March 16, 2007 | 10 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

This note follows the development of a positioning statement for a target market. The exercise includes determining the relevant point of reference (market definition, product category, competitive se... Read More

Brooke Correll and Clos Du Val: Adventures in Napa Valley (A)

Moore, Marian Chapman; Glinska, Gosia

M-0733 | Published March 01, 2007 | 10 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

This case is the first in the series. An established winery's first marketing director is charged with reviving the once-hot brand. Clos Du Val had seen its glory days, with high ratings accompanied b... Read More

Kalashnikov: What's in a Name? (A)

Isabella, Lynn A.; Moore, Marian Chapman; Hatem, Hatem; Borunda, Chris; Yemen, Gerry

M-0697 | Published June 26, 2006 | 7 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

What can you do with a brand name? How can you extend it? What if the brand name is associated with a weapon? The AK-47 had been part of every major revolution over the last 50 years and a mainstay i... Read More

Kalashnikov: What's in a Name? (B)

Isabella, Lynn A.; Moore, Marian Chapman; Yemen, Gerry

M-0743 | Published June 26, 2006 | 6 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

What can you do with a brand name? How can you extend it? What if the brand name is associated with a weapon? The AK-47 had been part of every major revolution over the last 50 years and a mainstay in... Read More

Snibbie: Spit Happens (A)

Moore, Marian Chapman; Henderson, Geraldine; Yemen, Gerry

M-0700 | Published November 05, 2004 | 10 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Who hasn't had a great idea and believed it could generate millions? Greg Heard actually took his idea and developed a bib for infant caregivers he called the "Snibbie." The A case explores the entrep... Read More

Snibbie: Spit Happens (B)

Moore, Marian Chapman; Henderson, Geraldine; Yemen, Gerry

M-0701 | Published November 05, 2004 | 7 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Who hasn't had a great idea and believed it could generate millions? Greg Heard actually took his idea and developed a bib for infant caregivers he called the "Snibbie." The A case explores the entrep... Read More

Marketing Economics

Farris, Paul W.; Moore, Marian C.; Wilcox, Ronald T.; Johnson, Richard R.; Mentus, Ron

M-0648 | Published August 07, 2001 | 10 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

The purpose of this note is to prepare the student for a series of exercises in making marketing economics calculations. These calculations are not replacements for spreadsheets or more detailed econo... Read More