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Tablet Leadership Competition

Coaching Tip

Amazon was late to understand the speed of that transition; Apple, which launched the iPod in 2001 and iTunes two years later, wasn’t. The other is price. Samsung, ( RIMM )RIM, and others have entered the tablet race with similar devices at those prices and above. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 3, 2011.

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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. I hope your inspiring and heartfelt thoughts cause others to reflect on the great price that has been, and is continuing to be paid to protect our freedom.

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Should Regulators Block AT&T's Acquisition of T-Mobile?

Harvard Business Review

I tend to care about prices: Will this merger affect my monthly wireless bill? Wireless telephone prices are falling, a sign of competitive markets. And because the CPI cannot easily account for increases in call quality , this index understates the true decrease in the quality-adjusted price of wireless telephony.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In 2011, the U.S. Since 2001, when China joined the World Trade Organization, subsidies have annually financed over 20% of the expansion of the country''s manufacturing capacity. percent annually, while similar U.S.

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How Microsoft and Netflix Lost their Way

Harvard Business Review

At Microsoft, Eichenwald argues, leaders established "a corporate culture that by 2001 was heading down the path of self-immolating chaos." By early 2011, CEO Reed Hastings had concluded that maintaining the company's existing product and pricing options wasn't a viable long-term strategy.

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When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm

Harvard Business Review

This work is still ongoing, but in 2011 Gigerenzer and his colleague Wolfgang Gassmaier wrote that heuristics are likely to do well in an environment with moderate to high uncertainty and moderate to high redundancy (that is, the different data series available are correlated with each another). What they found surprised them.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. increase in stock price on the announcement day. For example, consider Zynga’s decision, announced in 2011, to build its own datacenters. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.