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How Leaders Become Strategists

Skip Prichard

As it turns out, what passes for strategy in many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is ultimately just a mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Much of the debt was paid off by licensing out characters just for toys and games.

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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

They mostly operate out of grocery and drugstore pharmacies, others are employed in hospitals or in clinical settings. To qualify, pharmacists need a Doctor of Pharmacy degree and must be licensed. Operations Research Analyst. They dispense medicines based on the prescription from doctors. Percentage of women: 52%.

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Will We Get a Second-Hand Market for Digital Goods?

Harvard Business Review

For the past decade, emerging digital markets have operated under the assumption that, despite the obvious similarity between a music CD and an MP3 downloaded from iTunes, digital goods are different. Or, to use the legal term, you license their use. In effect, ReDigi operates a market for license transfers among iTunes users.

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

And the essence of Walt Disney’s original strategy remains intact today: to construct a range of businesses — from animated film to fun parks, TV, retail, cruise ships, and more — around a group of engaging, family-friendly characters. Or consider U.S. Or consider U.S.

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3 Questions to Get the Most Out of Your Company’s Data

Harvard Business Review

“This isn’t possible in print, broadcast, or traditional films, which may be why the media industry is such a dysfunctional place,” Peretti has said. That’s why film producers have no choice but to go with their gut. ” But what if you could automate your gut decisions? Consider entertainment.

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Remembering a Leader in Green Energy

Coaching Tip

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. The new materials—dubbed ovonics—were switches like transistors but worked better for many applications.

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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.