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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

except maybe for sports;" "the fact of the matter is, newspapers are dead," "my firm now has twice as many partners in Beijing as in Palo Alto;" etc. It's media disintermediation at work! will be obsolete 10 yrs from now;" "if you were starting media company today no way would TV, magazine, newspaper be part of it.

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Making Sense of Owned Media

Harvard Business Review

In the sporting goods industry, Nike has created the Nike+ running community while UnderArmour is developing an owned media strategy around its recent acquisition of MapMyFitness. In large part due to EpicMix, Vail Resorts grew revenue, profitability and market share through the recent recession while others fell behind.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

And so the newspaper bundle, the idea of this slug of news and sports scores and classifieds and stock quotes that arrives once a day was a consequence of the printing plant. Barksdale: I think we use the term “disintermediate” a lot more than we do “unbundle from these terrible corporations.”

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