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Learning How to Make Market Segmentation Work Again

Harvard Business Review

Gaming industry leader Harrah's has profiled casino visitors over the past half-decade to separate loyal, repeat visitors (a highly profitable segment) from "professionals" (a group that is hard to please and a revenue drain) so they can properly hand out customized freebies and loyalty perks.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. This final chapter puts it all together.

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Peru's Innovation Drive

Harvard Business Review

The first round of presidential polls on April 10, 2011, set the stage for a June runoff between the leftist Ollanta Humala, a former military commander, and right-winger Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a former Peruvian president who is in jail. The ability to do that, I believe is going to keep Peru's economy on the path to development.

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It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change. The situation is particularly dire at the very early stages.

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If Your Mobile Strategy Can Win Here, It Can Win Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

Kirsten Gagnaire is the Global Director of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), launched in May 2011 by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And these messages use strong market segmentation. How do women in that market get information? Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center.

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Top Line Growth? There's an App for That

Harvard Business Review

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. They didn't treat the internet seriously, or if they did, they didn't know how to formulate a strategy once they had moved to the net. Four main factors go into developing and positioning an app strategy: Brand.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse.