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Use a Brand Council to Help Steer Strategy

Harvard Business Review

A 2008 survey of chief marketing officers and brand managers by the Association of National Advertisers found that 64% say their brands do not influence decisions made at their companies. It uses the brand identity and positioning as guardrails to assess the appropriateness of proposed initiatives and as standards to evaluate their execution.

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Rescuing Capitalism from Itself

Harvard Business Review

In the United States, the inclination has been to fix capitalism, mainly with proposals for what I call adjectival capitalism: Sustainable Capitalism, Caring Capitalism, Inclusive Capitalism, Conscious Capitalism, and others. Compare the influence of the World Economic Forum with that of the World Social Forum.

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