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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. A few years later, Iger made another successful deal to buy Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in 2009. That deal brought the Stars Wars and the Indiana Jones franchises within Disney’s fold.

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What’s Missing from Annual Reports

Harvard Business Review

Its revenue comes from franchises ($AU4.77 The company’s 2013 annual report contained the usual statements on income, changes in equity, and cash flows — standard stuff. Take the example of Harvey Norman , an Australia-based household-goods retailer that operates under various brands and has stores in several countries.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

The second was at what was the fourth KFC franchise to open in the United States. There became too many competitors, too much franchising, too much hype and just as many who exited the industry as quickly as they entered it. Its recognition and success evolved into the national ad campaign: “We Do Chicken Right.”

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How to Understand the EU-U.S. Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review

The most recent report from the FCC finds that at the end of 2013, 95% of all U.S. By the end of 2013, for example, the European Commission reports that only 62% of Europeans had access to next-generation broadband services, more than 20% less than in the U.S. Despite the vast size of the U.S. and the EU, but again the more open U.S.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics.

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