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Make Your Competition Irrelevant

Harvard Business Review

The payoff of operating with no or little competition is, of course, huge. David Aaker is the Vice-Chairman of Prophet and the author of Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant and the davidaaker.com blog on branding. It is Econ 101. But it usually doable, especially at the level of subcategories. It's always more profitable.

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How CMOs Build Brands by Collaborating Across Silos

Harvard Business Review

As a facilitator, the CMO group at Nestle operates centers of excellence around topics such as the Hispanic market, mom & kids, and Walmart which are shared across silos. David Aaker is the Vice-Chairman of Prophet and the author of Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant and the davidaaker.com blog on branding.

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