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Say “Hi” and “Bye”

Michael Lee Stallard

This year’s conference includes Karen Katz, President and CEO of Nieman Marcus, Maxine Clark, Founder of Build-a-Bear Workshop, Duncan Mac Naughtan, EVP, Chief Merchandising & Marketing Officer for Wal-Mart U.S. The Retailing Summit is a premiere event for senior leaders in retail.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

He argues that innovation has three core facets: Innovation generation , which is the sexy stuff you see all the time in the media. This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal. The new products, new technology, new startups.

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3 Reasons to Kill Influencer Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Marketers like to repeat the quote, “I know I waste half of my ad budget, I just don’t know which half.” So it shouldn’t be surprising that marketers like the idea of “influentials,” seemingly ordinary people who determine what others think, do and buy. Science finds little evidence to support influencer marketing.