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Most Requested Articles in the Academic Market
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Customizing Social Media Marketing
By Christian Schulze (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management), Lisa Scholer (Strategy&), and Bernd Skiera (Goethe University Frankfurt)
First to Market, First to Fail? Real Causes of Enduring Market Leadership
By Gerard J. Tellis (USC Marshall School of Business) and Peter N. Golder (Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business)
Why Forecasts Fail. What to Do Instead
Spyros Makridakis (INSEAD), Robin M. Hogarth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), and Anil Gaba (INSEAD)
Managing Project Uncertainty: From Variation to Chaos
By Arnoud De Meyer (INSEAD Singapore), Christoph H. Loch (INSEAD Singapore), and Michael T. Pich (INSEAD Singapore)
What By Really Happened to Toyota?
Robert E. Cole (Haas School of Business University of California Berkeley)
Creating Value Through Business Model Innovation
By Raphael Amit (Univeristy of Pennsylvania Wharton School) and Christoph Zott (University of Navarra IESE School of Business)
Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains
By Hau L. Lee (Stanford Graduate School of Business), V. Padamanabhan (INSEAD), and Seungjin Whang (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
Scenario Planning: A Tool for Strategic Thinking
By Paul J.H. Schoemaker (University of Pennsylvania Wharton School)
Competing in the Age of Omnichannel Retailing
By Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT Sloan School of Management), Yu Keffrey Hu (Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business), and Mohammad S. Rahman (University of Calgary Kaskayne School of Business)
The 12 Different Ways for Companies to Innovate
By Mohanbir Sawhney (Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business), Robert C. Wolcott (Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business), and Inigo Arroniz (Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business)
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