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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing (with featured article "Marketing Myopia," by Theodore Levitt)
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing (with featured article "Marketing Myopia," by Theodore Levitt)

by Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Theodore Levitt, Philip Kotler, Fred Reichheld
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 12m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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The Female Economy

by Michael J. Silverstein and Kate Sayre

WOMEN NOW DRIVE THE WORLD economy.

Globally, they control about $20 trillion in annual consumer spending, and that figure could climb as high as $28 trillion in the next five years. Their $13 trillion in total yearly earnings could reach $18 trillion in the same period. In aggregate, women represent a growth market bigger than China and India combined—more than twice as big, in fact. Given those numbers, it would be foolish to ignore or underestimate the female consumer. And yet many companies do just that, even ones that are confident they have a winning strategy when it comes to women.

Consider Dell’s short-lived effort to market laptops specifically to women. The company fell into ...

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing

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Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Theodore Levitt, Philip Kotler, Fred Reichheld

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ISBN: 9781422191521