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Six Ways Marketing Can Change the World
Jocz, Katherine E.; Quelch, John A.Article ART-1540-EMarketingThe erosion of public trust in politics is partly due to some bad practices for which marketing is frequently blamed. By exposing the principles underlying good marketing, the authors show how managers can practice marketing that benefits consumers and social institutions. Doing so could go a long way toward restoring a sense of citizenship and also help democracy flourish in the process.Starting at €8.20
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Un buen diagnóstico, el mejor remedio
Hanssens, DominiqueArticle ART-1791MarketingEn períodos de caída del consumo como el actual, los directivos ansían acelerar los "planes de reflotamiento" de las marcas. Pero antes de recetar un remedio milagroso, conviene acertar en el diagnóstico. De lo contrario, se corre el riesgo de administrar placebos. Partiendo de investigaciones sobre la industria alimentaria de Estados Unidos, el autor propone ampliar el marketing mix más allá de las típicas medidas a que recurren los directivos, ...Starting at €8.20
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Rediscovering Market Segmentation (Spanish version)
Yankelovich, Daniel; Meer, DavidArticle HBS-R0602GMarketingIn 1964, Daniel Yankelovich introduced in the pages of Harvard Business Review the concept of nondemographic segmentation, by which he meant the classification of consumers according to criteria other than age, residence, income, and such. The predictive power of marketing studies based on demographics was no longer strong enough to serve as a basis for marketing strategy, he argued. Buying patterns had become far better guides to consumers' futu...Starting at €8.20
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Match Your Sales Force Structure to Your Business Life Cycle (Spanish version)
Zoltners, Andris A.; Sinha, Prabhakant; Lorimer, Sally E.Article HBS-R0607FMarketingthe differing roles that internal salespeople and external selling partners should play, the size of the sales force, its degree of specialization, and how salespeople apportion their efforts among different customers, products, and activities. These variables are critical because they determine how quickly sales forces respond to market opportunities, influence sales reps' performance, and affect companies' revenues, costs, and profitability. I...Starting at €8.20
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Mismanagement of Customer Loyalty (Spanish version)
Reinartz, Werner; Kumar, VArticle HBS-R0207FMarketingIdentify early and don't invest anything.Starting at €8.20
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Don't Be Undersold!
Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict E.M.; Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0912K-EMarketing"Aldi" is a word that strikes fear in the hearts of brand managers across Europe. A chain of low-budget retail stores with sales of $73.5 billion in 2008, Aldi invented what is commonly referred to as the hard-discount store, a format that is destroying between a quarter and a half trillion dollars in brand sales annually. Brand executives at major consumer packaged goods companies have mostly been caught off guard by this success. The authors' r...Starting at €8.20
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Rethinking the 4 P's
Ettenson, Richard; Conrado, Eduardo; Knowles, JonathanArticle HBS-F1301C-EMarketingThe traditional marketing mix--product, place, price, promotion--yields narrow strategies that are increasingly at odds with the imperative to deliver solutions. Marketers need to adopt a new framework focused on solutions, access, value, and education--SAVE.Starting at €8.20
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Make Your Best Customers Even Better
Yoon, Eddie; Carlotti, Steve; Moore, DennisArticle HBS-F1403A-EMarketingCompanies that focus on their "superconsumers"--a subset of heavy consumers who are highly engaged with a category and a brand--can realize even greater sales from them, along with new product ideas and insights that can help products gain mass appeal.Starting at €8.20
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The Cause and the Cure (Spanish version)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Cook, Scott; Hall, TaddyArticle HBS-R0512DMarketingThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Ted Levitt used to tell his Harvard Business School students, "People don't want a quarter-inch drill--they want a quarter-inch hole." But 35 years later, marketers are still thinking in terms of products and ever-finer demographic segments. The structure of a mar...Starting at €8.20
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Sales Learning Curve (Spanish version)
Leslie, Mark; Holloway, ChuckArticle HBS-R0607JMarketingThe company--marketing, sales, product support, and product development--and its customers transfer knowledge and experience back and forth. As customers adopt the product, the firm modifies both the offering and the processes associated with making and selling it. The more a company learns about the sales process, the more efficient it becomes at selling, and the higher the sales yield. As the sales yield increases, the sales learning process u...Starting at €8.20