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To Size Up Your Market in India, Look Twice

Harvard Business Review

Our goal was to rejuvenate a dying 40-year-old brand so it would appeal to a new generation of Indian children, many being raised on a diet of American cartoon shows and films. Over the next four years, Amar Chitra Katha's revenues grew seven-fold. One of the trickiest challenges in India is to get the size of the market right.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

Using the same 1 – 100 scale ask yourself: How well does our organization support the achievement of our strategy? If your organization is incapable of delivering its strategy, the strategy is effectively worthless and your company’s purpose will go more or less unfulfilled.

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Superman Was a Reporter. Now He Owns the Newspaper.

Harvard Business Review

There''s much more in this article, from how the Medium team built its strategy from the ground up to how it established key management tenets that revolve around what the company needs to accomplish in order to serve its core purpose. You Don''t Actually Watch Foreign Films. So does it work? Dark dramas featuring a strong female lead."

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else.

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most and Least Resilient Economies

Harvard Business Review

The continent’s long-term potential remains attractive, but a company’s success in the current environment will depend on its strategy. And despite government revenues having been hit hard in Angola, medical device companies are still selling expensive equipment to the ministry of health.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Kodak accepted the pain of shuttering plants and laying off tens of thousands of film-factory workers. The blind spot in its strategy and the root cause of its collapse, was its failure to see how progress in the other components of its ecosystem would eliminate the value of the end goal. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. 3 globally).