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How GM Uses Social Media to Improve Cars and Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

Out of curiosity, I ran it through a search engine and what did I get? The parallels to business are likely obvious to you, but let's just complete the picture: Between the creation of a new idea and that idea becoming a new market reality, many different decisions and actions need to happen. And that's alignment. Why is that?

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