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- 24 May 2013
- News
Four Lean Advertising Campaigns That Went Viral
- June 2013
- Article
How to Profit from 'Lean Advertising'
By: Thales S. Teixeira
This article introduces the concept of Lean Advertising, i.e., how to use non-traditional approaches to create and distribute advertising using extremely low-cost approaches online. A framework for Lean Advertising is proposed that identifies the four ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Viral Advertising; Viral Ads; Online Marketing; Lean Advertising; Digital Marketing; Advertising; Advertising Industry
Teixeira, Thales S. "How to Profit from 'Lean Advertising'." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 6 (June 2013): 23–25.
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
lean advertising. (Other lean advertising techniques include do-it-yourself content, crowd-sourced talent, and do-it-yourself distribution—also known as inbound marketing.) "It... View Details
- Article
From TV to Web: Content Strategies for Ads That Drive Online Sales
By: Thales S. Teixeira
Consumers have become avid media multitaskers, moving seamlessly between their TVs and digital devices. Shorter TV commercials have reduced both the quantity and quality of consumer attention during prime-time viewing hours. In this new media environment, can TV... View Details
Keywords: TV Advertising; Multitasking; Infotainment; Television; Prime Time; Advertising; Online Advertising; Advertising Industry
Teixeira, Thales S. "From TV to Web: Content Strategies for Ads That Drive Online Sales." IESE Insight, no. 23 (Fourth Quarter 2014): 54–61.
- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Ranjan Kapur
Ranjan Kapur, the India country manager of the WPP advertising agency, describes his human resources philosophy: empowering employees (which he describes as "letting the tiger out of the cage"), using... View Details
- 29 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention: Why You Should Care, and What You Can Do about It
Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention: Why You Should Care, and What You Can Do about It
By: Thales S. Teixeira
Attention is a necessary ingredient for effective advertising. The market for consumer attention (or "eyeballs") has become so competitive that attention can be regarded as a currency. The rising cost of this ingredient in the marketplace is causing marketers to waste... View Details
Teixeira, Thales S. "The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention: Why You Should Care, and What You Can Do about It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-055, January 2014.
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
non-traditional approaches to create and distribute advertising using extremely low-cost approaches online. A framework for Lean Advertising is proposed that identifies the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- December 2009 (Revised September 2024)
- Case
Phreesia: The Patient Intake Company
How should the co-founders of an organization that provides patient sign-in and billing services scale their company after five years of successfully targeting small private physician practices? Phreesia had deployed a direct mail and sales force strategy that resulted... View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Phreesia: The Patient Intake Company." Harvard Business School Case 310-066, December 2009. (Revised September 2024.)
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
increased dramatically (seven- to nine-fold) in the last two decades. To counteract this trend, I propose novel approaches to lower its cost or use attention more efficiently by adopting multitasker-tailored ads, Lean Advertising, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World
phone, “You can do it, Mary Kay, you can do it.” When she launched her own firm, Beauty by Mary Kay, she leaned on the early lesson her mother taught her about motivation to inspire her salespeople. “Especially in the beginning, the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
transforming how work is done and how people are paid for it. This heightened tension between moral and material goals may be nowhere as intense as it is in journalism, a field with strong ethical convictions at its core, but whose business model has been decimated by... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 17 Jan 2024
- HBS Case
Psychological Pricing Tactics to Fight the Inflation Blues
businesses today will need to lean hard on psychological pricing strategies to convince customers to overcome their reluctance to spend, according to recent research by Elie Ofek, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
gets lost? What sticks?” But there’s another level to Graeber’s findings. Do you want the information you’re presenting to be acted on in the immediate future? If so, lean harder on numbers than stories. “Think about a politician out... View Details
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
company in January 2001. In the late 1990s, the company increased prices and lost many consumers to less expensive soup brands. Rather than bring prices back down, to maintain earnings Campbell cut costs by reducing advertising and laying... View Details
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
New research from Harvard Business School shows that mass advertising is better at swaying undecided consumers while face-to-face personal selling is more suited at closing the deal for those already leaning... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
strongly lean toward those. Question: How important is advertising for big companies? Cohen: Advertising is a lifeblood for corporations, even though how they’re doing it... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
brands. He describes four different ad types and explains how each can influence multitasking consumers. To create an effective media mix, he recommends that companies take advantage of lean advertising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
IEEE Security & Privacy Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
an easier time balancing these goals with the ever-constant push for profits. The challenge comes when companies encounter lean times or reach certain tension points when faced with the possibility of layoffs, mergers, or other difficult... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman