John Malmo

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7:50 am
Wed October 3, 2012

Avis Quits Trying

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My Space?

The "Avis: We-Try-Harder" campaign has identified the brand for fifty years in a category with no other indelible advertising identity. 

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8:45 am
Wed September 19, 2012

More Information, Less News

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In the last fifty years only the postal business has changed as fundamentally as has journalism. 

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7:30 am
Wed September 12, 2012

Who Saved Up To 40 Percent?

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The government has approved of the undertakings.

One great problem with laws and rules and regulations is that in almost all cases, obedience requires oversight. We’re beset with Medicare and Medicaid fraud, not because they’re bad programs, but because there’s inadequate oversight.

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7:50 am
Wed September 5, 2012

Ivory Gets Another Little Slap

My generation grew up with a steady advertising diet of “Ivory Soap. Ninety-nine-and-one-hundredths-percent pure. And it floats.” 

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7:40 am
Wed August 29, 2012

You Gotta Know the Box

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Outside the Box?

Harvard Business Review reports that thinking outside the box has become ubiquitous in business. 

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