Marketing is Dead was from the HBR Blog network on how traditional marketing is no longer effective. Bill Lee (the writer) suggests companies to consider peer influenced based and community oriented marketing to sustain long term relationship with customers. Another…
Year: 2012
“Inventory as piles of carbon and water”
Larissa Ho
Posted in Operations, Strategy, Sustainable Business, Transportation & Logistics
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