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The $2,000 Car

Harvard Business Review

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. and which they now sell in Europe and the U.S. and which they now sell in Europe and the U.S.

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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." You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. It was Hans Edelman, a Dutchman who managed Alegre's most profitable hotel, in Buenos Aires. Distinct Personalities.