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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

And the essence of Walt Disney’s original strategy remains intact today: to construct a range of businesses — from animated film to fun parks, TV, retail, cruise ships, and more — around a group of engaging, family-friendly characters. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. Or consider U.S. When Innovation Is Strategy. Strategy'

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Linds Redding’s Short Lesson in Perspective

In the CEO Afterlife

The creative industry operates largely by holding ‘creative’ people ransom to their own self-image, precarious sense of self-worth, and fragile – if occasionally out of control ego. Economically I probably helped shift some merchandise. This has come as quite a shock I can tell you. An elaborate hoax. The scam works like this: 1.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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