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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. Source: The Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2012. photovoltaic industry.

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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. It began moving into adjacencies that were tightly linked to the core — Lego for girls, a new set of mini figure elements, licensing the brand for a Lego movie. The results were amazing.