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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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Top Stories

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

Advertising: The Bottom Line

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

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 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

Obama: $1 Million in a Minute

The latest salvo in the Presidential hopeful's Web campaign is a site designed to process a million dollars in 60 seconds

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: FORD'S BETTER IDEA

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Reader Jeff B Writes:

"Ford deserves credit for improving quality, but it's not enough to simply build cars that don't break. You need to make great cars people want to buy—Ford doesn't."

 

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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Quality over Green: Nike's New Air Jordan

The latest in the popular line of basketball shoes hits stores as part of Nike's sustainable design line. But the company is hyping performance, not green

 

Web Watch

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Generation MySpace Is Getting Fed Up

Annoyed with the ad deluge on social networks, many users are spending less time on the sites

 

Innovation Top Story

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Is U.S. Innovation Headed Offshore?

Apparently not, even though more research and development is joining manufacturing in the shift toward low-cost nations