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Four Kinds of Commerce, and What Each One Does to Brand Value

Lucas Perraudin maps how people still shop, how they increasingly shop, and how they are starting to shop. The four modes coexist, and each rewards a different marketing
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Brand Do, Not Brand Say: A Chief Executive on Purpose That Holds Up

Alan Jope explains why a brand only earns the right to campaign on what it has already done, ranks employees first among seven stakeholders, and describes the agility
Empty chair at a long boardroom table. Cover image for Marketing Kept One of the Four Ps: A CMO on Why the Role Is Disappearing.
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Marketing Kept One of the Four Ps: A CMO on Why the Role Is Disappearing

Raja Rajamannar on the companies that removed the role and what they were reacting to, the promotions that fund their own social programs, and the five hours he
Signing a document with a fountain pen. Cover image for Nobody Took It to the Board: What the Roundtable Signatories Thought They Were Signing.
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Nobody Took It to the Board: What the Roundtable Signatories Thought They Were Signing

Colin Mayer traces corporate purpose back two thousand years, defines it as profitable solutions to the problems of people and planet, and explains why the crisis broke the
Two speakers on stage at a business conference. Cover image for The CEO Presented the Hits, and the CMO Presented the Misses.
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The CEO Presented the Hits, and the CMO Presented the Misses

Keith Weed on nine years running marketing, sustainability and communications at Unilever: the targets nobody knew how to reach, why he took the missed ones on stage himself,
Bare tree in a quiet winter landscape. Cover image for Growth Has a Winter: A Founder on the Contraction Nobody Puts on the Chart.
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Growth Has a Winter: A Founder on the Contraction Nobody Puts on the Chart

Elana Rosenfeld built a coffee company from a garage and sold most of it. She takes her definition of growth from nature, would choose values over purpose if
Empty desk in a bright modern office. Cover image for Fire Yourself Every Eighteen Months: A Chief Brand Officer on Not Owning the Past.
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Fire Yourself Every Eighteen Months: A Chief Brand Officer on Not Owning the Past

Marc Pritchard on building good into the business model so a bad quarter cannot cut it, the campaign that became simultaneously the most liked and most disliked, and
Open road winding through mountains. Cover image for Operational Progress Creates Strategic Degrees of Freedom.
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Operational Progress Creates Strategic Degrees of Freedom

Hubert Joly on why Best Buy waited four years before defining its purpose, the childhood photographs he asked his executive team to bring to an offsite, and a
Crumpled paper drafts scattered on a desk. Cover image for Ten Versions Before the Right One: Writing a Purpose for a Company Not Yet Born.
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Ten Versions Before the Right One: Writing a Purpose for a Company Not Yet Born

GSK Consumer Healthcare's chief executive and chief marketing officer on six months of fortnightly meetings, the wording they were told to change, and the brand whose whole promise