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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. In the first, it centers on compliance to a pre-determined plan, in the latter on decentralized initiative taking and experimentation. Believing that users would want hard copies, they added digital technology to instant cameras, instead of creating a new product not requiring film.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets. Reliance MediaWorks. and the U.K.

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Blockchain Could Help Artists Profit More from Their Creative Works

Harvard Business Review

home marketers (Fox, HBO), cable and satellite services (Comcast, DirectTV), video syndicators (PMI, TVS), film libraries and archives (Eastman House, Getty Images), and talent agencies (WME, CAA, ICM), each with its own contracts and accounting systems. Consumers can view films on their mobile devices in exchange for bitcoin.