First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 16, 2011

Brand Portfolio Strategy: Creating Relevance, Differentiation, Energy, Leverage, and Clarity David A. Aaker Free Press (2004) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it. If anything, Aaker’s insights are even more valuable now than they were then.

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Aaker Brand Strategy Books 75

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The challenge for the Chief Marketing Officer is to create marketing and brand building that is both exceptional and efficient in the face of country, product, and functional silos. Pharmacia had a global team representing regional silos that met to coordinate marketing globally and to coordinate new product planning.

Brand 15

Brand Aaker Objective Team Building 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

And brands are part of that everything. Some of the pioneering work on applying this idea to brands and actually measuring their personalities was done in the 1990s by Jennifer Aaker, then at UCLA and now at Stanford. In subsequent decades the thinking about brands as humanlike entities has gone in a lot of different directions.

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Brand Aaker Participative Media 8