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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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Getting Brand Communities Right

by Susan Fournier and Lara Lee

IN 1983, HARLEY-DAVIDSON FACED extinction. Twenty-five years later, the company boasted a top-50 global brand valued at $7.8 billion. Central to the company’s turnaround, and to its subsequent success, was Harley’s commitment to building a brand community: a group of ardent consumers organized around the lifestyle, activities, and ethos of the brand.

Inspired by Harley’s results and enabled by Web 2.0 technologies, marketers in industries from packaged goods to industrial equipment are busy trying to build communities around their own brands. Their timing is right. In today’s turbulent world, people are hungry for a sense of connection; and in lean economic times, every company needs ...

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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