3BL Blog

By Zoe Dunn, principal, Hale Advisors

Not only do I like Brand X, I LOVE it. I LOVE it so much that all I want to do is sing from the rooftops, shout from the mountains, and take out a full-page ad in The New York Times. I tell everyone on my Facebook page that they have to buy Brand X right now. I tweet that Brand X has changed my life, that it will change yours too, that my followers should follow Brand X’s hashtag right away! But, most importantly, I set up a Pinterest page to share other themes that remind me of Brand X, maybe other brands too.

Hey, Pharma – does...

DAVID CONNOR 

Michael Porter knows his stuff. He’s a professor at Harvard and widely respected author on strategic thinking in business, especially of multiple books with ‘Competitive’ in the title.  More importantly though is his attention to the less traditional side of competitive business, my side, the good side.

The capitalist system is under siege.

One ongoing focus of this attention has been his interrogation of the world of CSR. A couple of years...

By Karen Ammann and Doug Fulton

If the Internet is a “series of tubes,” how do you push ahead of a clog? Search Engine Optimization.

Google recently announced significant changes to their search engine optimization, cutely named Penguin 2.0, aiming to make search results more accurate and dissuade use of what is often termed “black hat” SEO techniques. There are many aspects to this announcement that target press releases.

Most significantly, press releases are now categorized as paid advertisements. Google will not increase the PageRank for any URLs that are...

By Zoe Dunn

This just in: another example of a Pharma company trying to use social media in a responsible way and being undermined by shifting technology – meta tags where you don’t expect them. You can read about it here.

We are learning, we are evolving, and we are trying to stay a step ahead of technology that is changing at a pace few can keep up with – especially if it is not the focus of your job, like many...