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Robin higie coulter and gerald zaltman 1994,using the zaltman metaphor elicitation technique to understand brand images, in na advances in consumer research volume 21, eds. How listeners think aka how customers think by gerald. Latency response and neuroimaging come to think of it reading the mind of the market. Dont forget the sales team after a merger bob hatcher. Essential insights into the mind of the market, boston. Professor zaltman held positions at northwestern university and the university of pittsburgh before joining harvard university in 1991. The latest business management research and ideas from hbs faculty. Focus group participants rave about a new personal digital. There thus seems to be a rather contradictory view of how customers are affected by a merger or acquisition, if they are affected at all. His research interests focus on customer behavior and marketing strategy. Ironically, what you think would be important, might not be the same things that the acquiring company would see as important. Zaltman insists that marketers who ignore the importance of the unconscious level doom. Zaltman is a professor of marketing at harvard business school and a fellow at harvard universitys mind, brain, behavior initiative. Zaltman, harvard business press, 2008, 1422121151, 9781422121153, 230.
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