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Apple: Luxury Brand or Mass Marketer?

Harvard Business Review

Between recent high-profile hires from the fashion and watch industries to the rumored 18-karat gold Apple Watch, some observers are fretting about the company’s trend toward catering to the highly profitable 1%, possibly at the expense of the rest of us. Apple Customers Marketing' But is that really right?

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. LVMH’s approach is somewhat unique.

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business Review

Four examples in very different industries help illustrate the pitfalls of minivations. However, global first-year demand turned out to be 14% above projections; the demand for Audi turned out to be 80,000 Q7’s. The problem with wildly successful products. That likely made Audi a little too conservative.

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The $300 House: The Marketing Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Acumen creates these markets using patient capital. It lies in engaging directly and experientially with individuals, not getting distribution in front of markets. The broad, mass market approach of a Western marketer is foolish because there is no mass market in places where villages are the market.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. Breaking through the industrial ages rusting, cracking ceiling wont happen by just doing more of the same. Well have to invest not just in action, but in deep, sustained, prolonged reflection.