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JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Since 2015, our data shows that rate snowballing again, nearly quadrupling to an average of 1000 deals annually. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

There were 21,000 layoffs; a wage freeze for current workers; a halved wage of $14 per hour for non-core new hires; elimination of a funding program for unemployed workers; a no-strike agreement until 2015; and the VEBA that shifted UAW retiree healthcare and pension benefits from GM to the UAW, saving the company $3 billion per year. (In

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Both offer important lessons in social marketing — but mouthwash may still have one key advantage. Information & technology Social platforms Technology' Let me explain. ” So it’s reasonable to ask: Does Facebook generate common knowledge? T]his is an issue we will have to deal with eventually.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.” years in 2009.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Industries with a higher share of IT workers saw more concentration between 2002 and 2007, even after controlling for M&A activity and several other variables.

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