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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business Review

” For both workers and employers, the boomerang represents “a positive development,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of several best-selling titles, including How Will You Measure Your Life? She returned in 2015. Bridget Forney enjoyed working at her first employer, Profiles, the Baltimore-based PR agency.

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Content Marketers Should Find Spokespeople Outside the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

The use of content marketing has grown exponentially in recent years, and in 2015, Content Marketing Institute found that 88% of B2B marketers are now using content marketing. With traditional PR, major risks usually include the author of an article misquoting your company rep or a message getting taken out of context.

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How Marketers Can Start Integrating AI in Their Work

Harvard Business Review

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. Smart marketers are developing, partnering to build, or integrating AI into their tech stacks to get better at what they do.

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Why Technology Won’t End the Marketing Hierarchy

Harvard Business Review

Looking ahead to 2015, marketers were wondering whether there would still be a role for hierarchy in marketing. So now that 2015 is almost here, has that come to pass? We could easily envision a landscape of lean, open, networked firms that managed their customers and their brands themselves but outsourced everything else to partners.

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Birthing a Baby Unicorn: The Anatomy of a Successful Startup Launch

Great Leadership By Dan

Bring PR to the table earl y. There are two types of PR firms: “upstream” strategic firms that have a seat at the big table in developing positioning and messaging, and “downstream” implementation firms. You can never have enough content, so start developing—and reviewing—it the moment your positioning is finalized.

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10 Tactics for Launching a Product Using Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Meerkat, which was the darling of SXSW 2015, allows people to experience anything virtually through live video streaming on their smartphones. Brands are using Snapchat to provide exclusive, limited-time opportunities to fans, closing the gap between virtual and in-store retail experiences. More apps of this nature are surfacing every day.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business Review

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. What does this mean for workforce learning and development? In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm. Development, not deficiency, is motivating learning. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.