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. product placement market grew by 12.8% product placement market grew by 12.8% And it’s particularly true when audiences like the film or show.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Disney’s existing contract to distribute Pixar films was slated to end in 2006 and Pixar had announced two years earlier it would not renew the arrangement.). Iger used the Pixar and Marvel purchases to convince George Lucas to sell them Lucasfilm (for about $4 billion) in 2012. It was a bold push towards the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. Manufacturing creates jobs at home and at the time same allows companies, through exports, to participate in the growth of emerging countries. Only about 1.1% of the world population is German. the UK , or France is only about half of this.

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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.

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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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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.” Entrants may target over-looked segments of the market with a product considered inferior by incumbent’s most-demanding customers and later move up-market as their product improves.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

To gain advantage on this leveled playing field, there’s one powerful branding tool that has been generally overlooked — or perhaps undervalued — by most marketers: sound. It was introduced with a film that drew the connection between the company’s heritage and its new position. SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2012.

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Brand Advertising B2C B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Feeling that he needed an experienced operating and marketing partner, the then 29-year-old Jobs lured Sculley to Apple with the now legendary pitch: "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Believing that Pixar would be a great hardware company. Not knowing the right market for NeXT computer.

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Film Creativity Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

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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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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 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 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). But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade. The analogy is closer to the PC coming after the mainframe," Anderson concedes.

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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. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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