Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

Marketers want to know intimate facts about individual behaviors, but only so they can fit them into increasingly refined demographic groupings of other individuals with similar behaviors and, they hope, similar interests. These laws in effect correct a creepy response that doesn't go away by itself or through market mechanisms.

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Advertising Software Information Ryan 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Today, the company does roughly $50 million in total sales, with the home market accounting for over 80% of them. That’s a healthy company. There is no paradox.

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Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The standard Gen Y stereotypes are pretty well accepted in the workplace," says Carrie Hirst, a Regional Marketing Coordinator at Allstate. The recession has forced millennials to develop this work ethic, with 44% of students who are working to help finance their education, reports Rutgers University.

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Ryan Mentor Ethics Talent Management 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

By second phase, I mean the creation of entirely new offerings that are possible only because of digital technology. Your employees are held back by a predigital worldview, and for the most part they lack the skills to develop cutting-edge digital offerings. One option is to buy your way in.

Advertising 8

Advertising Banking Learning Curve Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

McDonalds isn’t the first fast food chain to consider giving customers more control over their orders using technology (though there’s a fair amount of debate about whether customization is really the best way forward for the struggling company ). Avacado and shaved parmesan on your sandwich? No problem.

Banking 8

Banking Technology Norton Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Then came ill-advised decisions — like making a flip phone when market research showed that no one wanted flip phones — and an accretion of layers of management that operated by consensus. Oh, and an offer from then-up-and-coming star Justin Bieber to rep BlackBerry, an offer that was rebuffed by the marketing department.

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CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

While the technology supporting sales process have clearly evolved, the traditional sales strategies proffered by sales gurus 20 or 30 years ago have not kept pace with market needs. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The way in which we market presidents is broken, much like the way that we traditionally market businesses is broken. I say "market" presidents rather than "select" them because the way in which an organization commits to market its products and services can substantially determine the quality of the product it produces and sells.

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Marketing Politics Health Care Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

TPP’s high quality rules and new competition will also help economic reformers across the Pacific, from an aging Japan that needs structural changes for its economy to grow, to a rising Vietnam that needs an international legal framework to develop further. is not on “offense”—pushing to open markets—the U.S.

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Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8