by Minter Dial | Dec 8, 2009 | Marketing
Momentum Effect by JC Larréché I attended a presentation last week by Jean-Claude Larréché, famed marketing professor from INSEAD (still teaching there and also was there when I attended in 1993). Jean-Claude gave a short and punchy overview of the key points of his...
by Minter Dial | Nov 24, 2009 | Leadership
I attended a GEF (Grandes Ecoles au Féminin [1]) conference yesterday, here in Paris, at which I listened to the results of an Ipsos study entitled, “How to improve the mix of women in management [in France].” You can read the French results here. This was...
by Minter Dial | Mar 9, 2009 | Social Media
Friends, Romans and World Citizens, Lend me Your Ears…. Some INSEAD classmates, at VoiceCorp*, have launched a new service (just a month old) called ReadSpeaker: a way to listen to online content read out loud. I have added the new function to this blog...
by Minter Dial | Mar 6, 2009 | Marketing
This morning, I was piling through some old notes from a lecture I attended with Professor Miklos Sarvary at INSEAD, and this led me to plunge into the story of RCA whose 70-year tale is very rich. There is a great timeline available on NationMaster. RCA is a...
by Minter Dial | Oct 13, 2008 | Business, Marketing, Mobile, Podcast, Politics
Despite the sleek look & feel, I know that the Apple iPhone is still not perfect for my needs, so I have resisted the temptation thus far. Instead, I am content to max out my iPod. Although the agenda and contacts are weak applications in the Apple mobile...