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Why Porter's Model No Longer Works

Harvard Business Review

These two key functions — Marketing and Service — are regularly discussed as shaped by social era dynamics. It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Big Isn't Enough.

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When to Make a Promise to Your Boss (and When Not To)

Harvard Business Review

Social Media Gets Physical Coke Designs a Friendly Bottle That Can Only Be Opened by Another Bottle Adweek The Colombian office of the Leo Burnett ad agency has designed a plastic Coke bottle with a cleverly engineered cap that can be opened only when it’s fitted together with another Coke bottle’s cap and twisted.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries.

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Why Social Marketing Is So Hard

Harvard Business Review

Of course, the notion of a passive consumer, and a mass market was overly simplistic; consumers were never as passive as companies like to think.). Try applying the marketing funnel to your love life and see how it goes. Relationships aren't rational, but emotional. They certainly aren't predictable.