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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. Most, if not all, of the people and resources dedicated to reverse innovation efforts must be based and managed in the local market.

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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. Hans, hello.". I apologize.