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Do Apps Have Social Responsibility?

Harvard Business Review

How Hollywood can Capitalize on Piracy MIT Technology Review When the rogue file-sharing site Megaupload was shuttered in 2012, legal online revenue for blockbuster films rose. But the first season of Thrones became the best-selling television DVD of 2012 on Amazon, and the third season got better ratings than any other show on HBO.

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A Lesson In Innovation From The Red Planet

Tanveer Naseer

was the joyous cry that rang out across the central quad at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the night of August 5, 2012. When it came to landing the car-sized rover on Mars in 2012, there simply was no precedent – nothing nearly that big had ever landed there. And it needed to be accomplished within NASA’s newly streamlined budgets.

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Five of Steve Jobs's Biggest Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

Wendy Kopp started Teach for America, initially as a conference, on a shoestring budget after graduating from college. When Jobs was the last and only buyer standing in 1986 when George Lucas had to sell off the Pixar graphics arm of LucasFilms (for $10 million), he never expected the company to ever make money on animated films.

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

Strategy Driven

Nothing – not even reputable films – should be judged only by fickle box office ratings. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. The public also loves to see celebrities, products, trends and cultural icons fall just as quickly as they rise. It’s a sick phenomena. ‘Accelerate Your Business.’

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