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Patents, Copyrights and Innovation, Oh My!

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For example, Jack Valenti, the late former head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said "The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone." Source: Roger Parloff , senior editor, FORTUNE, July 23, 2012.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The topic model allows us to analyze similarities and overlap among topics between published papers. For example, the model revealed that the topic “disruptive innovation” is often mentioned alongside the topic “business model” in many studies. It appealed to a niche of film nerds.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. It's the business model, stupid.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

There is no better illustration of the need for business leaders to expand their focus beyond traditional views of disruption than the case of Kodak. Kodak accepted the pain of shuttering plants and laying off tens of thousands of film-factory workers. A misunderstood story. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. digital-camera sales (No.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market.

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

Making Money with Digital Business Models. Napster, Amazon, and the Apple store have annihilated Tower Records and Musicland; digital cameras replaced film and then smartphones upended camera makers. But the questions of timing and scale are still the minds of Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell in 2012. Insight Center.

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