Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. Three of the company's directors quit near the end of last year, and word recently emerged that the company was on the brink of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Almost every great company became great by beating back a group of similarly minded startups.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

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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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. A misunderstood story. “How could they not have seen it coming?”

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

An obvious solution is product placement, a company paying for its product to be featured prominently in a film or television program as a form of advertising. And it’s particularly true when audiences like the film or show. In 2012 Staples Inc., According to PQMedia, the U.S. product placement market grew by 12.8%

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Bond Productivity Products Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. No doubt some people were surprised by this filing, because they grew up at a time when bright yellow boxes of film accompanied every family vacation and celebration. bankruptcy court.

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Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

This decision — to bet the company on a new and distinct business — was the first such move by Ma, but it would become the cornerstone of Alibaba’s strategy. Today, Alibaba looks more like a conglomerate than a typical tech company, with a diverse set of businesses operating largely independently.

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Porter Decentralization Film Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Like any creative process, any entrepreneur who wants to invent, innovate, or create must be willing to be imperfect and make mistakes in order to learn what works and what does not. Believing that Pixar would be a great hardware company. The company struggled from the start to find the right markets and customers.

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Film Creativity Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

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Education Human Resources Participative Training 12

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. We call this the victory of “innovation by combine” over traditional “innovation by design.”.

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Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

What successful companies are doing right. The implications of that insight were becoming obvious for companies that sold information, like newspapers and encyclopedias. Napster, Amazon, and the Apple store have annihilated Tower Records and Musicland; digital cameras replaced film and then smartphones upended camera makers.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 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.

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Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

It is estimated that they currently have about seven thousand of them (and Congress asked for about $5 billion worth of more drones in 2012). Interestingly, both Grygar and Jardine have also started companies to manufacture and sell drones to other businesses.

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Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9