Branding - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Branding in Digital and Social Media

This very contemporary line of research explores the rapidly changing digital world, and investigates how emerging technologies are creating a new consumer culture in which consumers expect to be partners in the co-creation of brands. The work explores the branding... View Details

23 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

When Apple launched its latest iPad, experts and nonexperts alike expected it to be dubbed "iPad 3," a natural follow-on to the second-generation iPad 2. Instead, the company called the new iPad just that: "the new iPad." Observers debated whether... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Apr 2012
News

The Paradox of Personal Branding

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Brand Tourists: How Non-Core Users Enhance the Brand Image by Eliciting Pride

By: Silvia Bellezza and Anat Keinan

This research examines how core consumers of selective brands react when non-core users obtain access to the brand. Contrary to the view that non-core users and downward brand extensions pose a threat to the brand, this work investigates the conditions under which... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Attitudes; Brands and Branding

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Brand Values and Capital Market Valuation

By: Mary Barth, Michael B. Clement, George Foster and Ron Kasznik

Brand value estimates are significantly positively related to prices and returns, incremental to accounting variables. Questionable brand value estimate reliability underlies lack of financial statement recognition for brands. Findings suggest estimates are relevant... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Valuation

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07 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

In the marketplace, Brand Trump is authentic. It stands for aspiration and success, but more the ostentatious and flashy success that appeals to the newly wealthy, the entrepreneur, the outsider. For these consumers, View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

19 May 2011
News

Brand Oprah Has Some Marketing Lessons

25 Feb 2011
News

Building America's Most Innovative Brands

Jul 11 2023
Interview

Consumer Brands Today: Q&A with Jill Avery

29 Mar 2013
News

New Life for Old Brands

January 2007
Class Lecture

Brand Positioning (FSS)

By: Youngme E. Moon

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Product Positioning

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2014
Other Teaching and Training Material

Marketing Reading: Brands and Brand Equity

By: Rohit Deshpandé and Anat Keinan

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22 Dec 2020
News

Dove: Maintaining a Brand with Purpose

03 Nov 2014
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Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

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Creating and Consuming Brand Meaning

By: Jill J. Avery

This vibrant stream explores how managers build meaning into their brands through narrative stories, and nurture, leverage, and maintain meaning over time. It also explores how consumers use this meaning embedded in brands to construct their identities and live their... View Details

10 Sep 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

positions taken by a number of people. It wasn't just a descriptive story." “There are two elements of brand authenticity, and they appeal to two different sorts of people” Deshpandé decided that the business of yoga would make a... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation