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Know When to Kill Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

The first Blockbuster store opened in 1985 and quickly became a popular provider of video games and movies to be used on all the new VCRs people were buying at the time. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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India’s Botched War on Cash

Harvard Business Review

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. billion annually in currency operations costs. According to a 2013 Mastercard study , India was in the “Inception” category of both absolute level of cashlessness and the trajectory of change. Related Video.