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Empower
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What common
In this extract from his recent speech to an audience of marketers, Chinese ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming outlines
In 1983, The Police released the Grammy award winning song Every Breath You Take, with the classic verse: Every
Rory Sutherland explains why it is easier to change behaviour by using simple rules than by using rational argument
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The ‘placebo effect’ in medicine is a well documented phenomenon whereby the perception of effectiveness influences the actual physical experience
Without a more nuanced analysis of what capitalism is, there is scant chance of ‘replacing it with something nicer’, writes
Anthropologist Grant McCracken looks at marketing as the management of meaning in culture. He argues that the meanings carried by
Even the most fundamental change rarely happens overnight – indeed the biggest changes are often irreversible because they have crept
Some of your prices are too low. Some customers would pay more, and there are times and places where you
I listened to a mature marketing consultant on Radio 4 the other day, a man keen to insist he was
For any executive, the first 100 days (F100D) of a new role are fraught with anxiety.
The greatest businessmen throughout history understood – almost instinctively – what people would value and why, and then delivered it
Even great companies lose their way. Consider Procter & Gamble. By the late 1990s, P&G was one of the best
From the vision of Apple to the insight of Zara, the passion of Nike and the customisation of Dell, today's
In may 2005, Coldplay's single 'Speed of Sound' went straight into the top ten of the US charts – the
Depending on which papers you read, and when you read them, this year's holiday trading period was either retailing's salvation
Historically, the success of the City of London probably has little to do with marketing, at least not marketing as