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Apple: Luxury Brand or Mass Marketer?

Harvard Business Review

Meyer writes: So far, Apple has been a company focused on the mainstream, on the mass consumer, in an era where the most reliable profits could be found in the luxury market. To understand the cost of Apple products that we associate with mass market success, we mapped the U.S. Apple Customers Marketing'

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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that data from Rice University shows that market power today is more concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of incumbents than ever before. It runs the risk that startups targeting niche problems get crowded out in favor of those forced to chase mass market problems.

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10 TED Talks to Help You Reimagine Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Thousands of very lucky individuals are seated in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center are at TED 2013. In the spirit of TED 2013, here are 10 amazing TED Talks that have helped me think differently about what business can be, how to be a better leader, and how to become a better global citizen. It's happening right now.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

So the reengineered consumption models of the sharing economy are now well poised to go mass-market, and the battle cries of Hammer and Davenport won't be necessary this time around. In 2013, corporate America will need to pay very close attention to this new paradigm.

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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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Don't Draw the Wrong Lessons from Better Place's Bust

Harvard Business Review

Its approach was the first to align the key actors in the ecosystem in a way that addressed the critical shortcomings — range, resale value, grid capacity — that undermine the electric car as a mass-market proposition. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market).