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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

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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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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Six Things Your Company Has in Common with the Oakland A's

Harvard Business Review

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Morey, Daryl; Maybury, Mark; Thuraisingham, Bhavani (2002).

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When Ads Get (Too) Personal

Harvard Business Review

As advertisers and their agencies continue to experiment with the technological possibilities, it's not hard to imagine reaching the ultimate end, depicted in the 2002 Tom Cruise film Minority Report. (Certainly not me, as I watched Mad Men commercial free.) If you haven't seen it, check out the Gap store scene here on YouTube.

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10 Remarkable People on Having a Career That Matters

Harvard Business Review

Fired from that firm in 2002, he now runs a nonprofit and two biotech companies. “I’ve learned that the best thing for my company is to do what I believe in… Don’t put something on the market just because everyone else is doing it. It ended in a tie two years later.) We asked him about setting audacious goals.

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Former Skeptics Can Be Your Best Spokespeople

Harvard Business Review

” There is nothing in the technique of the commercials — no overwrought music, no tricky film angles or editing — that gets in the way of the plain sincerity of this message. Apple hired the great documentarian Errol Morris to film its 2002 “Switchers” campaign.