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Remembering a Leader in Green Energy

Coaching Tip

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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Patents, Copyrights and Innovation, Oh My!

Coaching Tip

For example, Jack Valenti, the late former head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said "The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone." Accordingly, "to promote the progress of science" they gave Congress the power to secure "for limited times to authors. writings.".

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A Lesson In Innovation From The Red Planet

Tanveer Naseer

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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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

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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Measuring the ROI of social media? There’s a laugh, and a joke.

Strategy Driven

Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. MAJOR POINT OF UNDERSTANDING: If they had measured the ROI of TV, or the computer, or the automobile, or the telephone, or the Internet after 5 years, NOBODY would have gotten involved, and we’d be in a technological bog – sinking.

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Fast forward a decade or so, and the Internet’s power to decrease profit margins has become the stuff of legend.

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Do Apps Have Social Responsibility?

Harvard Business Review

But the Strava case is prescient as we continue to develop digital technologies that influence the emotions and impulses that make us so darned human. Apologies are a "powerful and easy-to-use tool" for social influence, the researchers say. Technology' So Sorry Want People to Trust You? No surprise there.

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