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Remembering a Leader in Green Energy

Coaching Tip

Stanford Ovshinsky 1922-2012. Companies around the world license his patents. "It Mr. Ovshinsky used the same basic insight decades later to produce flexible photovoltaic materials, printing them on film on a machine the length of a football field. photovoltaic industry. Atlantic Richfield Oil Corp.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

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. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. digital-camera sales (No.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue. The results were amazing.