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Marketing & sales

New Product Sales: Turn Innovation Into Growth

Darden Professor Thomas Steenburgh and co-author Michael Ahearne discuss how salespeople and companies can better sell new products business to business.

Marketers on Board: The Secret Ingredient to Firm Growth

As executives and recruiters choose talent for boards, they should consider knowledge and functional diversity.

MIPFuturo: A Public-Private Partnership

Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation, a USAID-funded program, and Popoyán, a Guatemalan agribusiness, partnered to commercialize a line of biological products for smallholder farmers in Guatemala.

Customer Engagement: 4 Types and New Maps

To compete effectively in a fast-paced environment, companies are realizing they need to build deeper attachments with customers. They want customers who will do more than just shop — who will influence others, make referrals and even co-create new products.

How to Be Cool

What makes a product or person “cool”? Darden Professor Lalin Anik presents a theory of coolness and explains four traits that contribute to coolness.

Sanitation Marketing Systems in Bangladesh: A Public-Private Partnership

Sanitation Marketing Systems in Bangladesh was a finalist for the annual P3 Impact Award, which recognizes leading public-private partnerships that improve communities around the world.

Marketing ROI: From Art to Science

In recent decades, marketing efforts have grown in sophistication, speed and expense. Now the field’s metrics need to catch up, so that marketers can effectively assess what a campaign did — or failed to do.

Consumer Pokénomics: Go-Time for Augmented Reality

Pokémon Go was a smash hit this summer. But did it also provide a glimpse into the future of consumer marketing?

Runaway success of ‘Hamilton’ shows the power of creating buzz on social media

Before Lin-Manuel Miranda and his hit show Hamilton were on Broadway, he was working to create buzz, connecting with the public through an active social media presence, particularly on Twitter. His savvy use of social media serves as a case in point in how to engage multiple audiences.