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The Problem with Trend Tracking

Harvard Business Review

To qualify as a trend, something must represent an emerging consensus. Both parties are to this extent "glocal" — global and local. A trend, for anthropological purposes, has to be a change in how culture defines how we see and act in the world. Novelties come and go. Keates certainly believes there's a trend here.

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How Story Platforms Help Global Brands Go Local

Harvard Business Review

Despite the truth of most of these observations, "Go Crazy" is part of a global campaign originated for Coke by Ogilvy Brazil. The Coke campaign is one example of what three prominent co-authors addressed in a March HBR post titled " Great Advertising is Both Local and Global." It''s not easy to do, however.

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