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Can Chinese Smartphone Darling Xiaomi Compete in Western Markets?

Harvard Business Review

The “jobs-to-be-done” theory articulates the gap between how producers view and market a product and how customers actually use it. In the words of Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt, “ People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. Hence the focus on non-consumers. Xiaomi’s Challenge.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

.” You still see this Taylorite assumption that selling can be deduced to a series of behaviors in various areas: generic assessment tests, selling methodologies and “pitches” that allegedly apply across all sales situations, and chic “neuro-marketing” factoids about buying and selling.