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Are Appleā€™s Patent Wars a Marketing Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. How much would it cost to have similar media coverage through a traditional advertising campaign? AdvertisingAge reports that in 2012, Samsung increased its U.S. billion requested).

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, even in the midst of an anemic global economy and budget tightening at firms, the amount spent on these events worldwide was an estimated $565 billion. Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend.

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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. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

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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. Achieving those effects is no accident. The Invisible Children, Inc.

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