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Apple: Luxury Brand or Mass Marketer?

Harvard Business Review

It’s easy to make a case that Apple is now positioning itself to become more of a provider of luxury-level technology. To understand the cost of Apple products that we associate with mass market success, we mapped the U.S. Since those early days, did Apple’s products become more available to the middle class?

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The Internet of Things Needs Design, Not Just Technology

Harvard Business Review

Reaching these lofty projections over the next four years, however, will require a fundamental reorientation in the way that technologists and product designers work together to create successful “connected” personal devices and home appliance products. Product design considerations in the IoT 1.0

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Big-Box Retailers Have Two Options If They Want to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Mintel’s 2015 American Lifestyles report projects that vacations, dining out, and other experiential categories will drive the growth in total consumer spending. The use of technology by leading companies from Apple to Uber to personalize their offerings have raised people’s expectations. Personalization is expected.

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The $300 House: The Marketing Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor. When someone in poverty buys a device that improves productivity, the device pays for itself (if it didn't, they wouldn't buy it.)

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Why Porter's Model No Longer Works

Harvard Business Review

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. Let's think about the way that changes our modes of production. Big had the dollars to buy the mass-market access to consumers back when mass media was the only way to reach an audience. Big Isn't Enough.

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