Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Marketing That Works. Not long ago, market research shop Millward Brown released a ranking of the world's most valuable brands. The value of its brand was $153 billion, up 84 percent year on year. Yes, Apple spends lavishly on promoting its brand, but the study attributed the spike in brand valuation to the impact of two products — the iPad and, to a lesser extent, the iPhone. Branding Marketing

Brand Valuation 12

Brand Valuation Brand Advertising Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Since the birth of e-commerce, marketing experts have disagreed about the future role of brands. Some have predicted that digital technologies will hasten the demise of brands because customers will have ready access to information they need to make purchase decisions, and “brand” will therefore become less relevant. Others have prophesied an increasing importance of brand as a simple way to evaluate choices in an era of information overkill.

Brand Valuation 10

Brand Valuation Drucker Price Maturity 10