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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business Review

It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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When to Change a Winning Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The other key finding from our research is that firms prepared to grow in diverse ways outperform the ones that narrowly focus on one single mode. To succeed, therefore, managers have to learn when and how to abandon the strategies they have grown up with. The reliance on a single growth mode is misplaced.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

In a world of such diverse political forms — democracies, monarchies, authoritarian states — we will increasingly differentiate societies on the basis not of their regime type or income, but of their capacity to harness technology. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization.