This classic case study focuses on the highly impactful 2018 Super Bowl commercial for the Tide brand. It is a great task to explore how creative advertising reinforces brand positioning, drives awareness, and builds customer loyalty.
Classic Case Study: Tide’s Super Bowl Ad of 2018 Review the Teaching Activity
Walmart has been progressively edging up its brand positioning to target more affluent consumers. But this repositioning poses brand risks as they move away from, and potentially alienate, their established and loyal customer base. This mini case study – and video – provides students with an opportunity to assess and mitigate the challenges involved with repositioning such an established and tightly positioned brand.
Walmart’s Repositioning to Attract Higher-Income Shoppers Review the Teaching Activity
In this task, students explore remarketing and creatively design retargeting ads to increase consumer motivation and trigger a sale (converting a prospect into a customer). An ideal mix of fun and creativity, while delivering on marketing objectives.
Remarketing Ads Design Challenge Review the Teaching Activity
This case study examines Old Spice’s classic 2010 brand repositioning, in which the long-established men’s grooming brand released a video ad titled ‘The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.’ The commercial quickly became a pop-culture phenomenon, not only boosting Old Spice’s sales and market share but also redefining how companies could successfully reposition a well-established (and even dated) brand.
Classic Case Study: Old Spice Brand Repositioning Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity, students will explore a new pricing strategy proposed by a cinema chain that offers a $50/month subscription for unlimited movies. The cinema chain’s goal is to defend against the growing competition from streaming services by potentially attracting more loyal customers. The debate centers on whether to roll out this pricing universally or target it toward specific customer segments.
Should We Use Segmented Pricing? Review the Teaching Activity
This activity explores service recovery and challenges students to decide whether the hotel should adopt a uniform recovery policy for all guests or tailor its response based on different customer segments. The same service failure situation is presented, but there are seven segments to consider each with varying long-term value to the hotel chain.
Service Recovery Across Customer Segments Review the Teaching Activity
This activity uses KFC’s fried‑chicken–flavored toothpaste (launched in 2025) to explore how novelty products can generate viral buzz, earned media, and support brand positioning. This task helps students with identifying the marketing objectives, consumer behavior triggers, and success behind the use of novelty product brand extensions.
KFC Toothpaste Case Study Review the Teaching Activity
This task is designed as a series of trade-off choices to identify the power and impact of country-of-origin effects in consumer decision making. Your students will act as consumers and identify which one product that your would choose to buy from each of the choices. They will consider three options for each product: a product connected to its country of origin (at a premium price), a locally made version (mid price) and a product from a non-connected country (low price).
Impact of Country of Origin Effects Review the Teaching Activity
This activity is centered on Bud Light’s Superbowl TV ad in 2025. This ad signaled a return to their traditional brand image and target market, following the consumer backlash they received in 2023 for straying too far away from their established brand positioning and loyal customer base.
Bud Light Returns to their Traditional Positioning Review the Teaching Activity
This McDonald’s case study reviews their iconic and enduring Happy Meal offering. The case explores a variety of marketing concepts with a particular focus on family decision making, product bundling, brand associations, ethical considerations, and the ability to offer multiple benefits to deliver consumer value. Although it is a relatively simple product, its continued and significant market success is undeniable, making it a classic and important case study for your students.
Classic Case Study: McDonalds Happy Meals Review the Teaching Activity