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For Entrepreneurs, Three Ways to Control Your Destiny and Rekindle Joy

Harvard Business Review

Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters. Artisans' cooperatives help market products from diverse artists.

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Marketing’s Mission: Make it Meaningfully Different

Harvard Business Review

Founded in 1998, Lululemon produces sports apparel for women that is fashionable, environmentally friendly, and as technically advanced as sports apparel for men. But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand. Good marketing helps ensure that brands are meaningful, different, and salient.

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Sustainability 3.0: When Products' True Costs Are Covered

Harvard Business Review

Ideally that sustainability could be achieved through market mechanisms — which would be possible if the products that took a bigger toll on the planet also cost more to buy in stores. Common measurements lead to cooperative management, and the pieces fall into place. Unfortunately, the opposite tends to be the case today.

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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

Henry Ford understood this, paying the workers at Ford more than their counterparts at other industrial companies, reasoning that helping to expand the new middle class was a way to expand the market for Ford’s product. As with other sustainability issues, the social and business consequences are inseparable. Take an Interest.