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How CMOs Build Brands by Collaborating Across Silos

Harvard Business Review

The challenge for the Chief Marketing Officer is to create marketing and brand building that is both exceptional and efficient in the face of country, product, and functional silos. David Aaker is the Vice-Chairman of Prophet and the author of Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant and the davidaaker.com blog on branding.

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Why Do We Get So Emotional About Brands?

Harvard Business Review

Honestly, it’s puzzling that an inanimate, imaginary thing such as a brand should seem to have gender. But obviously brands do send out gender signals, and sometimes they’re quite strong. Even though gender is increasingly understood to be fluid and multidimensional, brands continue to draw power from gender stereotypes.

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