(Published by the Cambridge Marketing Review, August 2013: Overview: Philip Kotler and Milton talk us through the global economy of cities in this fascinating feature. This excerpt is taken from their forthcoming 2015 book “Winning Global Markets: How Businesses Invest and Prosper in the World’s High-Growth Cities) Much of the growth of nations is tied to the growth of their [read more]
(Foreword: We have asked Tom Osenton to contribute a blog to Kotler on Growth because of his scholarship and provocative strategic insights on economic growth. We were very impressed by his book The Death of Demand, 2004, FT Prentice Hall. He traces the historic decline of U.S. consumer decline and challenges us to find a way to live in a permanently low growth [read more]
Wal-Mart faces a daunting business challenge. When Wal-Mart started its high growth strategy in 1969, it followed the movement of American middle class families from declining cities to new suburbs. Wal-Mart built thousands of stores to service this massive migration of growing household income, along with distribution centers to link these suburban and exurban stores into the largest retail chain [read more]
The U.S. Justice Department has sued AB InBev’s planned $20 billion acquisition of Corona from Mexican owner Grupo Modelo, on the grounds that the expanded AB InBev and MillerCoors would dominate the U.S. beer market and raise prices to the detriment of consumers. This is the same Anti-trust concern that prevented the AT&T acquisition of TMobile and UPS’s bid to [read more]