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What Data-Obsessed Marketers Don’t Understand

Harvard Business Review

After working with numerous marketers, we developed the Intelligent Brand Framework to provide a structure for thinking about marketing investments across creative and operational disciplines, using a combination of data-driven and human-centric approaches. P&G, for example, is known as a pioneer in the observation category.

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Retailers Can’t Rely on Holiday-Season Gimmicks Like They Used To

Harvard Business Review

For example, last holiday season, Toys “R” Us carried some of the most in-demand products, including licensed goods from Frozen and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , but it still turned in a comparable store net sales decrease of 2.7% for the season.

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How to Improve the Engagement and Retention of Young Hourly Workers

Harvard Business Review

For example, the group that was least likely to see their job as a stepping stone to a career was African-American women, while the group most likely to see their job as a stepping stone to a career was white men. Work toward inclusion, not just diversity.

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More than One Way to Organize a Business

Thin Difference

Instead of operating top-down, power is distributed throughout the organization, giving individuals and teams more freedom to self-manage, while staying aligned to the organization’s purpose. Holacracy Examples. Cooperative Examples. Employee-owned Examples. Sociocracy Examples. Key Elements of Holacracy.