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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. In 2011, Kodak made the list of Top 10 Fortune 500 Employers With Older Workers, called out for employing a disproportionately high percentage of mature workers.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors.

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How Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth

Harvard Business Review

In May 2012, as part of our research , we gave out the new dies randomly to 35 of the 135 producers in Sialkot and sat back to watch. Their number one answer: employee resistance. To better understand how the balls are manufactured, see this video.). We asked owners why not.