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CEOs, Get to Know Your Rivals

Harvard Business Review

He claimed that based on this insight he could anticipate their market moves one or even two steps in advance. At the same time, we continued to invest in long-term product development and overseas markets, knowing it was unlikely he could follow us in the short term.”. expansion, out-maneuvering Adelson in the domestic market. “We

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The Case for Listening to the Maniacs

Harvard Business Review

Off the Bell Curve Pay Attention to Your “Extreme Consumers” Working Knowledge Marketers worry too much about the average consumer and don’t spend enough time thinking about “extreme” customers — those quasi-maniacs who passionately love or hate a brand. Norton of Harvard Business School. Avery and Michael I. And long lines ?

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Grandiose, Narcissistic, Impulsive E-Personalities — and What They Might Do to the Economy

Harvard Business Review

Was it the efficiency and convenience of not having to go to the store? A decade ago, it was thought that the Internet would render buying more rational by dispensing wiith the marketing distractions of traditional stores, facilitating price and product comparisons, and freeing us from time pressure. Norton & Company, 2011).

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How to Work with a Bad Listener

Harvard Business Review

“You need to use your colleague’s time efficiently.” Jim Jacobs, president of Focus Insite, the market research firm based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, once worked with a colleague — we’ll call him Gary — who was not a good listener. ” Reflect on your own behavior.

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So Long, Giant Check Ceremony: The New World of Charitable Giving

Harvard Business Review

Say goodbye to the glory of the “giant check” ceremony, the requisite Toys for Tots drop box, and the depressing ASPCA commercials: The ways corporations, marketers, and individual donors are approaching charitable giving is starting to change dramatically — for the better and worse.

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How Self-Service Kiosks Are Changing Customer Behavior

Harvard Business Review

To start, four researchers at the Rotman School of Management, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, and the National University of Singapore did a study where they found that , when a liquor store changed from face-to-face to self-service, the market share of difficult-to-pronounce items increased 8.4%.