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					<description><![CDATA[A child stood before a camera holding a teddy-bear handbag fitted with bondage-coded accessories. Before the photograph reached the public, it passed through a global luxury company, a creative team, a production process, and...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When the Brand No Longer Controls What the Brand Means</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[For most of the twentieth century, a corporation’s brand manual functioned like a property deed. Executives sat in boardrooms, decided exactly what their company meant, and had it printed on heavy paper, as if...]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[In October 2024, with Halloween approaching and a Joker sequel in theaters, Kraft Heinz found the cultural moment it wanted to borrow. The creative idea behind its Heinz Smiles campaign was simple enough: consumers...]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[A senior procurement leader finds the whitepaper she’s been looking for. She clicks download. The form arrives like a customs checkpoint: name, title, company, corporate email, direct phone number. She reads it the way...]]></description>
		
		
		
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