Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Believing that Pixar would be a great hardware company. 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. billion in 2012. Trying to sell Pixar numerous times.

Film 8

Film Creativity Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

From my experience investing in emerging start-ups (I'm invested in 60 right now) and launching my share of both failures (4) and highly successful (3) companies, I can attest that Mr. Isenberg is perfectly correct in his assertion that it's dangerous to expect crowdfunding of equities to work the same way crowdfunded donations do.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence Real Estate Management Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Rather than publish another whitepaper on the topic, the company struck on a different communication tool: Legos. Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live. More specifically, Lego robots.

Education 12

Education Human Resources Participative Training 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

According to research presented at the 2012 Audio Branding Congress , congruent sound cues can increase the speed of a visual search for products (a key for success in both online and retail settings), as well as improve the perceived taste of food and wine (PDF). SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2012. SNCF Audio DNA, 2005.

Brand 10

Brand Advertising B2C B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out. .” What successful companies are doing right.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Valve Corporation's game platform, Steam , developed an anti-cheat solution in 2006 after it detected 10,000 cheating attempts in a single week. As of 2012, it had terminated more than 1.5 Since the basic game is free, currency plays a key role in the company's ability to generate revenue.

Airlines 8

Airlines Film Industry Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a 600-page proposed rulemaking , the SEC moved to implement key provisions of the 2012 Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (or JOBS Act). Kickstarter funds everything from art to food to fashion, films, and hardware. Securities and Exchange Commission took a major step toward allowing crowdfunded equity financing.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

The revelation highlighted an elephant in the room of our tech world: companies selling the magical speed, omnipotence, and neutrality of artificial intelligence (AI) often can’t make good on their promises without keeping people in the loop, often working invisibly in the background.

Content 8

Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Some companies claim that purchasing their product is the ‘be all, end all’ panacea for life’s dilemmas. Any company or organization is like a tree. Business development. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company).

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50