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. Like many easy narratives, this one is not quite right. Start before you need to.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

Our goal was to rejuvenate a dying 40-year-old brand so it would appeal to a new generation of Indian children, many being raised on a diet of American cartoon shows and films. We also acquired India's largest media products distribution company to deliver magazines, books, and DVDs to thousands of vendors across the country.

Marketing 13

Marketing Film GDP Media 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

I won''t give away the end of the piece, which involves a potential legal nightmare for any company that asks users to hit an "Agree" button after reading terms and conditions. As an investor, he realized that budding entrepreneurs might gain a lot from — but rarely get to see — other companies'' presentation slides. No surprise there.

Film 8

Film Technology Entrepreneur Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

“If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” It appealed to a niche of film nerds. As early as 2012, the company saw the potential of big data in the agriculture industry. Bloomberg/Getty Images.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

I located a great source: A weekly meeting held by an organization for white-collar job seekers in the Bay Area, a portion of which was dedicated to successful job seekers telling their stories — on film. So, are weak ties still the key?

Storytelling 14

Storytelling Wilde Film Learning-by-Doing 14

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

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. Then Pathfinder separated from the rockets and slammed into Mars.

Innovation 226

Innovation Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 226

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. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). by Hank Moore.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

But what if your brand or company doesn’t have an active audience of avid content consumers already? For instance, in 2012, the viral campaign “Kony 2012” for the Invisible Children organization garnered nearly 100,000,000 views, and was covered by most mainstream news organizations. Lesson 3: Consider the Public Good.

Marketing 20

Marketing Content Brand Audience 20

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

As of 2012, it had terminated more than 1.5 My company, the Alacer Group , recently had the opportunity to work with one of the world's largest casual online gaming companies to address revenue leakage experienced through fraudulent game play. million accounts within the 60 games running on Steam.

Airlines 8

Airlines Film Industry Proposal 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). Imagine the hybrid of aviation, logistics, technology, supply chain management and more that will be required to be an effective employee in the near-future for the drone industry.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Companies have been striving to harness and leverage the power of their data assets for decades. That is the finding of a survey (PDF) and series of follow-up interviews conducted by NewVantage Partners with C-level executives and function heads representing companies and government agencies during the second half of 2012.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Metrics Environment Operations 8