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The High Art of Photographic Advertising: The 1934 National Alliance of Art and Industry Exhibition

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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 toward a particular product.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

Post·cook·ie (adj.) Cookies—those bits of data that track online browsing history and save your passwords—aren’t going anywhere. But third-party cookies that allow a shoe advertisement to follow you from page to page will become a thing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

companies will manage the marketing of e-cigarette brands to maximize profitability for their shareholders” The growing sales of electronic cigarettes also caught the attention of regulators. The products had been completely unregulated—they could be View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Advertising

19 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

By now, it’s an expected right-of-passage. As you enter credit card information for an online purchase, up pops two familiar words: “Privacy Notice.” Does seeing those words make you more confident about the transaction, knowing that the company will safeguard your... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

July 1993
Supplement

Ethics in Marketing

By: John A. Quelch

Compilation of commercials for six marketing case studies included in the book Ethics in Marketing by N. Smith and J.A. Quelch, published by Richard D. Irwin, Homewood, IL. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Communications; Advertising

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02 Aug 2011
Working Paper Summaries

To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman, Sonia Jaffe & Scott Duke Kominers; Retail; Technology

05 May 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

Summing Up Questions raised in this month's column about the possibility of an era of marketing productivity based on innovative research techniques evoked a number of skeptical comments. However, in defense of such techniques, B. V. Krishnamurthy pointed out that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

1978
Article

Optimal Advertising: An Intra-Industry Approach

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Advertising; Business Ventures

Citation

Video

Dr. R.S. Sodhi

Dr. R.S. Sodhi, former Managing Director of GCMMF (Amul), relates the history of the Amul name and traces the origins of "Amul butter girl" - one of the world's longest running ad campaigns. View Details

13 May 2022
News

When Keyword Poaching Pays Off

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Cookie Information | HBS Online

parties to provide advertising tailored to your interests on other websites, apps and services you visit. Pixel tags (also called web beacons clear GIFs) are typically invisible tags placed on certain pages of the Services but not on your... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

Long defined almost exclusively in terms of print and broadcast outlets, mass media as an industry has been undergoing a major transformation - and that means big changes for the advertising industry, too. The Internet, for example, which... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

June 1999
Case

Major League Baseball--1999

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Elizabeth (Lisa) Smyth

Major League Baseball (MLB) has experienced a very positive 1998 season and must assess its situation and consider new initiatives for 1999. The latter include building, a fan base, television coverage, etc. View Details

Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Situation or Environment

Citation

Find at Harvard

November – December 2008
Article

Holding a Mirror up to Marketing

By: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz

The Dove campaign addressed a common concern that crossed cultural boundaries. Confronted by standard visual stereotypes of beauty in the global media, many young women develop self-image and self-esteem problems. The Dove Real Beauty campaign rejected these narrow... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Advertising Campaigns; Welfare; Diversity; Emotions; Government and Politics

Citation

Read Now

March 1996 (Revised October 1997)
Case

Dewar's (B): Preliminary Results of the Repositioning Campaign

By: Alvin J. Silk and Lisa Klein Pearo

Reports the strategic choices made by Dewar's and briefly describes the implementation of the campaign from its launch in September 1993 through September 1995. View Details

Keywords: Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Advertising Campaigns; Food and Beverage Industry

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01 Dec 2006
News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

HICKS Illustration by Joe Ciardiello Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97) arrived at HBS with ten years of experience as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett in Chicago. Disillusioned with the trend toward “unbundling” agencies into different... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2008
News

New Face at Facebook

advertising arm, which generates more than half its revenue and employs thousands of people. In addition to developing an advertising network for Facebook, she will be in charge of marketing and human... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?

In a recent op-ed piece for the Sunday London Times, Harvard Business School professor John Quelch warned that popular U.S. brands could be in for a rough ride overseas should anti-American sentiment grow over President Bush's handling of Iraq. In this e-mail... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne