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Featured Book Review

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How P&G Pampers New Thinking

CEO Lafley lays out the principles of innovation that turned around his company and can fire growth anywhere

 

Podcast: Innovation of the Week

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Creating Open Brands

Dr. Nita Rollins, co-author of the book The Open Brand, assesses some companies that are embracing the potential of the web and user-generated content to create compelling marketing campaigns

 

Featured Blog

Many people are anti-brand to a point. They relentlessly buy generic products. They skip every TV commercial they can. They also say that they don't vote based on ads they see. I'm not buying it.

David Kiley, Brand New Day

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Special Report

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Best Global Brands

Scour this year's list of the 100 Best Global Brands. Look behind the rankings. Read exclusive interviews with the CMOs of companies including Google and McDonalds. All this—and more

 

Special Report: Customer Service

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The 2008 Winners

Overall, customer service has dipped, perhaps a victim of spending cutbacks. But there's good news, too

 

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Hundreds of job openings with design-driven companies.

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Top Stories

McDonald's Specialty Coffee Kick

Jan Fields is the confident dynamo behind McDonald's push into specialty coffees. She says it's ready

Converse's All-Star Image

The century-old sneaker maker has been undergoing an overhaul since it was bought by Nike. The new global VP for footwear talks about the classic retro shoe

How to Build Brand Friendship

To create a truly powerful brand, you need to establish a sense of belonging, friendship, and dependability between product and customers

Advertising: The Bottom Line

For the second year in a row, BusinessWeek joined the Effie Awards to get the lowdown on the ad industry

Media Centric

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Can Craigslist Stay Oddball?

The Web phenom was never into maximizing profits. A scrap with eBay may change things

 

IN YOUR FACE: IS APPLE ONTO SOMETHING?

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Reader Jodeo Writes:

"What Apple should fear most is a Microsoft takeover of a computer business like Dell or Microsoft expanding their own PC business, then optimizing their OS for their machines."

 

Debate Room

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Internet Ads: Irritating, Ineffective

The advertisements that appear on Web sites are a nuisance for readers and a false economy poised to fall to Earth. Pro or con?

 

Anatomy of a Brand

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Starbucks' Retro Logo

How Starbucks is using a special brown logo to evoke the chain's beginnings and restore some goodwill for the brand

 

Web Watch

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Web Design of the Times

Khoi Vinh has emerged as a leading critical voice in the evolving discipline of web information design. He talks about the challenges of integrating traditional and internet design

 

Innovation Top Story

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Facebook's Big Facelift

The social networking site's coming redesign will be marked by a cleaner, more organized look to appeal to its vastly bigger, more diverse user base