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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Position yourself in market segments that will grow.

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Does Your Company Come Across as Too Male?

Harvard Business Review

He had no idea that the ad they’d just run to launch their latest mass-market device was so completely male-oriented. Whether it’s in recruiting materials or executive speeches, in advertising or marketing messaging, companies tend to talk in stereotypes, even if they have female-dominated marketing teams.

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If Your Mobile Strategy Can Win Here, It Can Win Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

As a marketer, I work to engage women online with brands and causes. of emails to my all-female marketing database are opened on iPhones, likely because many on my mailing list are busy moms who often aren''t in front of a computer. And these messages use strong market segmentation. It''s her phone. A stunning 64.7%

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.