Theodore Levitt

Thinkers1925 to 2006Marketing scholar

Works

  • The Marketing Mode: Pathways to Corporate Growth, 1969

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Known for

A Harvard Business School professor and editor of the Harvard Business Review, known for Marketing Myopia (1960). The Marketing Mode carries the line that people do not want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole, which he credited to Leo McGivena.

Caveat: The drill and hole line is not his: he credited Leo McGivena, and Percy H. Whiting printed it in 1947.

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