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James Bond, Dunder Mifflin, and the Future of Product Placement

Harvard Business Review

An obvious solution is product placement, a company paying for its product to be featured prominently in a film or television program as a form of advertising. Audiences are increasingly skeptical. And it’s particularly true when audiences like the film or show. According to PQMedia, the U.S. Research by Eva A.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” Importantly, the research landscape we mapped out suggests that disruption is not about technology alone, but rather the combination of technologies and business model innovation. It appealed to a niche of film nerds.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

More than 80 percent of what one sees and hears is clever, informative, research-based, sensibly executed and intended to orient target audiences toward marketplaces. Direct mailings to niche audiences. Their words overstate, get into the media and are accepted by audiences as fact. Business-to-business publication advertising.

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