The Practical Leader

AUGUST 13, 2012

Just over a decade later Redford established the Sundance Film Festival. What a powerful combination! He named it after the movie role he had just played alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid released that same year.

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Film Leadership Sports Letter 40

Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2012

People guarding nickels have no idea of the power or the value of business social media, much less social media. Billion-dollar MIS-MEASUREMENT: Bank of America DIDN’T measure or understand the power of Facebook. Start a YouTube channel by inviting your customers to film WHY they bought from you. Blackberry measured smartphones.

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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. Why did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

On the morning of May 18, 2012, at precisely 11:05, Nasdaq planned to execute the first trade in in Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offering. Symbolic gestures like the deck ceremony convey a powerful message: If you see a problem with pushing ahead, then stop. Phil Ashley/Getty Images. How do they do it?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Apologies are a "powerful and easy-to-use tool" for social influence, the researchers say. How Hollywood can Capitalize on Piracy MIT Technology Review When the rogue file-sharing site Megaupload was shuttered in 2012, legal online revenue for blockbuster films rose. No surprise there.

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Film Technology Entrepreneur Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Vint Cerf, considered one of the co-creators of the Internet's architecture, wrote in a 2012 New York Times Op-Ed that "The Internet stands at a crossroads. Built from the bottom up, powered by the people, it has become a powerful economic engine and a positive social force. But its success has generated a worrying backlash.

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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. Over the next four years, Amar Chitra Katha's revenues grew seven-fold. One of the trickiest challenges in India is to get the size of the market right.

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Marketing Film GDP Media 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

This conversation became a central part of the film Socheata created about her family. This film later led Socheata to found an organization that shares stories of the genocide to support the healing process of generations of surviving Cambodians and Cambodian-Americans. And can you turn these powerful moments into action?

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 2, 2018

Any time a director tries to translate a New York Bestseller to film, they face an uphill battle. Released in 2012, Ready Player One tells the story of teenager Wade Watts. Fear is a powerful emotion. Making in-person, face-to-face connections are powerful. The button gave Wade the power to reset the OASIS.

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Leadership Power eBook Simon 162

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

The leaders of the Hidden Champions stay at the helm for an average of 20 years; according to Strategy&, which collects data on the world’s largest 2,500 companies, in large firms the average CEO tenure from 2012 – 2016 was only seven years, and the median was even shorter, at five and a half years.

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Class Drucker Globalization Film 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Marketers are getting increasingly sophisticated at tapping into those strong emotions, and they don’t need a full-length feature film to do it. From drawings on cave walls to blockbusters at Cannes, story is still the most powerful way to elicit an emotional reaction. So how do marketers go from 0 to tears in 30 seconds?

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Marketing Storytelling Brand Supply Chain 11

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.

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Innovation Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 226

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. 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. You and Your Team Series. Career Transitions. Andy Molinsky.

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Storytelling Wilde Film Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

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. What size wheels to use for speed and maneuverability, what drain on battery power, which sensors to use for guidance around walls. More specifically, Lego robots.

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Education Human Resources Participative Training 10

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Stanford Ovshinsky 1922-2012. Mr. Ovshinsky moved to Detroit where he worked on power steering at the Hupp Corp. 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.

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Energy Library Film Engineering 102

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

The truth is, AI is as “fully-automated” as the Great and Powerful Oz was in that famous scene from the classic film , where Dorothy and friends realize that the great wizard is simply a man manically pulling levers from behind a curtain.

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Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Miles Anthony Smith

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It is expected to remain the religion with the most followers until at least 2050, according to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 2012. He wrote over 30 books, including The Space Trilogy , Mere Christianity , and the well-known Chronicles Of Narnia whose film adaptation was widely watched by both Christians and Non-Christians.

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Miles Anthony Smith

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It is expected to remain the religion with the most followers until at least 2050, according to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 2012. He wrote over 30 books, including The Space Trilogy , Mere Christianity , and the well-known Chronicles Of Narnia whose film adaptation was widely watched by both Christians and Non-Christians.

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Film Meyer Books Travel 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Fast forward a decade or so, and the Internet’s power to decrease profit margins has become the stuff of legend. 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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. That’s the power of shrinking to grow. The results were amazing. First, strip away complexity, and second, return to the core of the core.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

’ What they’re really selling: Electric power plants. Nothing – not even reputable films – should be judged only by fickle box office ratings. Perspective is everything…continually changing, reflective and powerful for our future. Investor Owned Light and Power Companies. The New York Times.

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Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

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). In a 2009 blog post , you can feel the nascent thinking about just how powerful a drone-based network could be for businesses in the not-too-distant future.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a 600-page proposed rulemaking , the SEC moved to implement key provisions of the 2012 Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (or JOBS Act). Tapping the power of the Internet, crowdfunding has proven wildly successful. Kickstarter funds everything from art to food to fashion, films, and hardware.

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