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The $2,000 Car

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. Logitech developed an affordable mouse for the China market which sells for (the Chinese equivalent of) $19.99 They demand new, high-tech solutions that deliver ultra-low costs and "good enough" quality.

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Why Elon Musk’s New Strategy Makes Sense

Harvard Business Review

The second installment moves Tesla beyond the traditional car market, with a plan to reconfigure our cities, energy systems, and our impact on the environment. They then moved into the luxury market where they applied plenty of competitive pressure with the Model S. Let’s quickly review the company’s history.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. By loving TEDx, a volunteer army of people are saying they believe that smart ideas that get people to think more about their world is a cause worth putting energy into. With shared purpose, alignment happens without coordination costs.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. are aimed at finding ways to lower the cost of its core activities like software testing. Some TCS academic alliances in the U.S.

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Predict the Future of Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, sensor technology is both proliferating and dropping in cost, allowing the types of data captured by businesses to become ever more contextually relevant. And finally, the cost of data storage continues to plummet, allowing businesses to store everything they might need to make a wide variety of predictions. Scalable Niches.

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Why Social Marketing Is So Hard

Harvard Business Review

Brands are spending a great deal of time and energy investing in platforms to get likes or pluses, and not really being social at all. But other problems require more than an answer to a known question, and demand that you spend some energy figuring out if you're asking the right question in the first place. 083% conversion rate.

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When to Make a Promise to Your Boss (and When Not To)

Harvard Business Review

Of course, powerful forces are working to undermine Musk’s vision: Traditional carmakers are fighting zero-emissions laws, and battery and energy researchers are aiming for breakthroughs that would make the gigafactory’s batteries obsolete. But if Musk is right, his production facilities will bring down the cost of batteries by 30%.