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Duflo, Daniel Feenberg, William Gale, Claudia Goldin, Alan Krueger, Howard Rosenthal, and numerous seminar participants. We acknowledge financial support from the MacArthur foundation. All our series are available in machine readable format in an electronic appendix of the working paper version at www.nber.org/papers/W8467. © 2003 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2003 1 2 QUARTERLY

for further development often go nowhere because they’re languishing in a part of the organization that’s too busy doing other things or that fails to see their potential. For instance, to address the burgeoning demand for energy-efficient lighting, consumer appliances, and heating systems, General Electric invested in a small energymanagement services business in Canada in the 1990s. Despite the business’s early successes in winning contracts and some market share, there was no natural home for it within

du positionnement. Le ciblage est aussi en opposition avec celui de ses concurrents. Pendant que Sony et Microsoft ont visé en particulier les innovateurs, Nintendo a clairement choisi le grand public, et notamment les familles. Lors du Tokyo Game Show 2006, Saturo Iwata a déclaré, en parlant de la Wiimote : « Pour étendre le public joueur, c’est à nous de concevoir une manette avec laquelle n’importe quel membre de la famille peut se sentir familier ». Objectif réussi, d’après Reggie Fils-Aimé (président

Tous domaines. ♦ Équivalent étranger : fit. Source : Journal officiel du 26 mars 2004. 10 administration à consommateur en ligne ♦ Abréviation : ACL. ♦ Domaine : Économie et gestion d’entreprise. ♦ Équivalent étranger : administration-to-consumer (A2C, A-to-C). Source : Journal officiel du 14 mai 2005. affacturage, n.m. ♦ Domaine : Finances. ♦ Définition : Opération ou technique de gestion financière par laquelle, dans le cadre d’une convention, une entreprise gère les comptes clients

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standardization creates scale economies, and market value to the brand. It can also prevent the consumer’s confusion and the confusion of the brand’s image. On the other hand, it can create understanding and different comprehensions of the message by the consumers. At the same time, it does reduce the probability of being efficient because the target becomes too heterogeneous. The subject of my thesis pretends to discuss the global communication strategies, if they are successful, or if they should be adapted

competitions for able-bodied athletes and has created a lot of controversy because he can run faster than most able-bodied people can. Picture 4 is the late Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, inventor, businessman and visionary. His determination to put electronic devices on the market that were as much works of art as machines led to the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. Picture 5 is a painting, St George and the Dragon, by Edward Coley Burne-Jones, done in 1866. The legend, which probably originated in Lebanon

different practice.’ ‘She was rather ill-tempered so I never went back.’ ‘The facilities were drab, so I went to a different one next to my office.’ ‘I felt rushed at his practice so didn’t go back.’ T hese were some of the remarks made by German consumers of healthcare in surveys conducted for this publication. If anything, the French were even more demanding. One French woman we spoke to told us that she had found some of the nursing staff in a French public hospital ‘rude and uncaring’. We pressed