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Build Your Personal Value Proposition

Harvard Business Review

Executives set value propositions for their products — the target market segments, the benefits they provide, and their prices. With no experience with the special duties of a public corporation's CEO, he feels it doesn't make sense to have to learn all that on the job at this point in his work life.

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You Can Charge Women More, but Should You?

Harvard Business Review

For a variety of reasons — cultural, not being aware of cheaper men’s products, brand loyalty, the work necessary to band together to protest higher prices — markets for women’s products carry a higher price than men’s goods. Should auto company CEOs be concerned about these potential biases?

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