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Lessons in Analytical Agility From the Architect of the F-16

Lessons in Analytical Agility From the Architect of the F-16

How do you get your organization to learn from the insights you have uncovered? And how can it adapt?

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Muddled Marketing Saves 'the Cloud' From Backlash

Muddled Marketing Saves 'the Cloud' From Backlash

Cloud computing should be suffering a PR crisis of epic proportions. But it's been saved, in part, by its own hazy marketing.

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A PR Dilemma: What If a Gaddafi Asks You to Repair His Country's Image?

A PR Dilemma: What If a Gaddafi Asks You to Repair His Country's Image?

Representing a country with image problems can be complex, rewarding work. But some nations have a bad image for good reason -- and pose big risks.

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JC Penney Has a Sound Strategy Despite Marketing Errors

JC Penney Has a Sound Strategy Despite Marketing Errors

It would be easy to count Mr. Johnson out and join the chorus of those marking the days until his demise. I, however, will not be among them.

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Why Ron Johnson's JC Penney Plan Simply Can't Work

Why Ron Johnson's JC Penney Plan Simply Can't Work

The point is not that Mr. Johnson is failing -- it's that he just can't win.

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How I Got a Foot Through the Door of the Advertising Industry

How I Got a Foot Through the Door of the Advertising Industry

I owe my foot in the door to the ad industry to the multicutural internship. It showed me possibilities and helped me knock down barriers.

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How New York's Marathon Organizer Is Running in the Wrong Marketing Direction

New York Road Runners' top-down approach undermines its most important marketing asset: its community.

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Helen Gurley Brown May Not Have Been a 'Serious' Feminist But She Empowers Women to This Day

Helen Gurley Brown May Not Have Been a 'Serious' Feminist But She Empowers Women to This Day

Helen Gurley Brown would be loving the tributes she's been receiving of late -- she's getting the recognition she deserves as a visionary who empowered young women to escape the straitjacket of non-opportunity.

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The Reason Women's Magazines Are Missing Millennials Online? No News

The Reason Women's Magazines Are Missing Millennials Online? No News

Brands such as Cosmopolitan or Glamour are in no way set up to respond to this audience's all-important need to know information, now.

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The Talent-Crunch Crisis: We've Got to Step Up Outreach to Young People

The Talent-Crunch Crisis: We've Got to Step Up Outreach to Young People

It's getting increasingly harder to recruit young people into advertising, and more than ever education outreach is a role that we must undertake.

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Viewpoint: What General Motors' CEO Dan Akerson Should Do Now

Viewpoint: What General Motors' CEO Dan Akerson Should Do Now

Here are a couple of things chief Dan Akerson can do to now to accomplish what he set out to do a couple of years ago: a better -- maybe even great -- job of marketing its four major brands.

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An Ad Block on the Olympics or One Unit on the Super Bowl?

An Ad Block on the Olympics or One Unit on the Super Bowl?

Super Bowl or Summer Olympics, which to buy? Brands can draw insights from comparing the two mega events.

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One Solution to Do-Not-Track: Let Consumers Build Their Own Tracking Profiles

One Solution to Do-Not-Track: Let Consumers Build Their Own Tracking Profiles

The ad industry has done nothing to stop messages that target uninterested consumers, but Microsoft's new privacy default shows they're a real intrusion.

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Women Find Social Media Make Them More Social Offline, Too

Women Find Social Media Make Them More Social Offline, Too

A study shows that women use social media to connect aspects of their fragmented lives and stay in touch with others.

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Why Is Pew Being Bashed for Its Glowing Study of Asian Americans?

Why Is Pew Being Bashed for Its Glowing Study of Asian Americans?

Lessons from the bashing of Pew's study of Asian Americans: Target, but reflect nuance, show consumers you respect their diversity.

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Corporate and Entertainment Brands Show Off New Ways to Team Up

Corporate and Entertainment Brands Show Off New Ways to Team Up

An unlikely dynamic from the Licensing Expo: collaboration between corporate and entertainment brands.

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Fashion's a Factor at the Licensing Expo

Fashion brands finally are attending the International Licensing Expo, looking for retail partners, with Hasbro actually leading the way.

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New Apps Abound and Old Brands Return

The 2012 Licensing Expo sees the return of Coke and the Postal Service, '50 Shades of Gray' rushing to market and new apps in droves.

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What You Need to Know About the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Marketers and agencies can face substantial penalties for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

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Predict the Future? We Aren't Even Reporting the Present Accurately

Predict the Future? We Aren't Even Reporting the Present Accurately

Our understanding of media behavior is more important than ever, but it seems we are becoming less informed, argues the Advertising Research Foundation's Horst Stipp.

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