Remove Budgeting Remove Decentralization Remove Management Remove P&L
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The $2,000 Car

Harvard Business Review

Companies such as GE, Deere & Company, P&G, PepsiCo, Unilever, and Nestle already get it, and have a huge jump on their competitors, bringing their emerging market innovations "back home" to their home markets. To meet the budgets of customers in poor countries, they de-featured existing products. The future is far from home.

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Case Study: Time for a Unified Campaign?

Harvard Business Review

She led him down a long corridor to a door marked "Hotel Manager." But I can't offer a price promotion within my current budget. You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. Honestly, Fernando, not much," Beatriz said.