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Are Apple’s Patent Wars a Marketing Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

The first one is the marketing effect of IP litigation. How much would it cost to have similar media coverage through a traditional advertising campaign? And this is particularly interesting given the aggressive marketing strategy implemented by Samsung in the past few years. Probably way more than Apple’s lawyer bills.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

Event marketing is currently a very expensive and sloppy process in most firms because the relevant information is fragmented, difficult to assemble, and the “database” is often a pile of business cards. ” But it’s far from moneyball when it comes to event marketing. But it needn’t be that way.

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JP Morgan's Loss: Bigger than "Risk Management"

Harvard Business Review

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." How Competitive Intelligence Rules Encourage Cheating. Many people, including quite a few U.S.

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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Big data providers from Nielsen to Gartner to IMS specialize in painting a picture of the market at any moment. Insight Center.

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

Everyone and everything is connected or soon will be by social media, on mobile platforms, and in the cloud. But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. Rapid Innovation/Move-to-Market Cycles. The Invisible Children, Inc.

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