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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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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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. It's the business model, stupid.

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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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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. Who are these workers behind the AI curtain?

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Stanford Ovshinsky 1922-2012. Companies around the world license his patents. "It The company was a world leader in the technology but recently declared bankruptcy amid down times in the U.S. Mr. Ovshinsky used his discovery to fund a publicly traded research laboratory that teamed up with companies such as 3M Co.,

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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. Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business.

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