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Innovation Thrives Despite Piracy

The Horizons Tracker

When Napster was released in 1999 pretty much all the way through until its demise in 2002, considerable unrest swirled around the platform. The study focuses its attention on the app market, which is estimated to be worth over $100 billion globally. Such concerns were understandable. Thriving creativity.

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Gjis van Wulfen: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

He worked as a marketer in the fast moving consumer goods sector and switched to consulting at Ernst & Young Consulting and Boer & Croon Strategy & Management Group. At the end of 2002 he started his own innovation organization to spread, train and facilitate the FORTH innovation […].

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Success Begins with Quality Customer Service

Chart Your Course

But eConsultancy’s 2013 Cross-Channel Marketing Report found that 70 percent of business owners feel acquisitions are definitely more expensive than retention. The 2013 GE Capital Major Purchase Shopper Study found that 81 percent of consumers will research a product online before buying it. Live Chat Online.

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GM’s Stock Buyback Is Bad for America and the Company

Harvard Business Review

government sold off all of its GM holdings in December 2013, U.S. billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. In 2013 GM produced 3 million cars in China , or 45% of its global car production; that was up from 1.1 billion by the U.S. By the time the U.S.

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. The company had been a star of the dot-com boom, eventually selling to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 market for e-commerce processing was saturated, went with the latter.

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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

In fact, Iger reportedly noticed that Pixar’s hugely popular Toy Story characters appeared in the 2005 opening parade at Hong Kong Disneyland while recent Disney animated characters—for example, Lilo & Stitch , released in 2002—were MIA (although Mickey and pals were present and accounted for, of course).

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A Leadership’s Judgment

Lead from Within

For a couple of days its market cap was number one in the world. By 2002, it was down to $9.42. Within five years, the stock had rebounded to $28 a share with market capitalization of $170 billion. © 2013 Lolly Daskal. In 2000 under the leadership of CEO John Chambers, Cisco was at the top of the game.

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