On July 16, 2010
Lessons From the Old Spice Man
By Craig Reiss of Entrepreneur's Daily Dose. This week we saw two days that shook the viral marketing world. Old Spice, a decidedly old-school Procter & Gamble brand, unleashed a social media blitz so profoundly brilliant that it not only
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On July 16, 2010
The McChrystal Firing: Why Optimism Is Bad Strategy
Organizations are frequently surprised by the organizational catastrophes that befall them, but disasters from the McChrystal article in Rolling Stone to the mortgage crisis were preceded by advance warning. Stanford's Jeffrey Pfeffer explains why it's so difficult to heed these
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On July 16, 2010
Friday Links
? My favorite release of the month so far has been Diary of a Very Bad Year. It’s a series of interviews (an entire book’s worth) Keith Gessen of n+1 did with one “HFM,” an anonymous hedge-fund mananger, from…
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On July 16, 2010
A Is For Apple… And Arrogance
Apple's press conference today announcing how it will handle the iPhone 4 antenna came as no great shock to me. Disappointment; yes. But shock; no!
Apple will not be recalling the iPhone 4, despite a flaw in the antenna design and…
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The Old Spice Guy, a Media Darling, Has a Dirty Secret: Sales Are Down
Procter & Gamble (PG) faces an unpleasant dilemma on its Old Spice brand: Its campaign --- featuring an impossibly handsome man in a towel who tells women, "So ladies, should your man smell like an Old Spice man? You tell
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On July 16, 2010
Consumer Spending Index Dips In June
The Deloitte Consumer Spending Index fell in June for the second consecutive month, dues to weak real wages and the housing market. The index attempts to track consumer cash flow as an indicator of future consumer spending.
"Real hourly earnings,…
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Stolen Advair Shows How Pharmacies Are the Crime-Infested Ghettos of the Drug Business
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)'s report that that 25,600 Advair Diskus inhalers worth $5 million, stolen from one of its warehouses in August 2009, have started showing up on pharmacy store shelves illustrates that pharmacies are often the crime-ridden ghettos of the drug
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On July 16, 2010
Stolen Advair Shows How Pharmacies Are the Crime-Infested Ghettos of the Drug Business
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)'s report that that 25,600 Advair Diskus inhalers worth $5 million, stolen from one of its warehouses in August 2009, have started showing up on pharmacy store shelves illustrates that pharmacies are often the crime-ridden ghettos of the drug
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On July 16, 2010
Quiznos’ Turnaround Plans Won’t Fix Its Biggest Problems
After shrinking by nearly 1,000 restaurants in the past few years, sub-sandwich chain Quiznos has a plan to get the chain growing again. Unfortunately, Quiznos' growth strategies are likely to worsen its already contentious relationship with the chain's franchise owners.<div
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On July 16, 2010
Quiznos’ Turnaround Plans Won’t Fix Its Biggest Problems
After shrinking by nearly 1,000 restaurants in the past few years, sub-sandwich chain Quiznos has a plan to get the chain growing again. Unfortunately, Quiznos' growth strategies are likely to worsen its already contentious relationship with the chain's franchise owners.<div
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