First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 21, 2011

Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape Henry Chesbrough Harvard Business Press (2006) Innovation requires an open mind…and the courage to challenge “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.”

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Business Model Open-book Review Books 80

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The art of storytelling in a digital world Here’s a quick, well, story to illustrate Rose’s view on storytelling strategy: Back in 2006, as a journalist for Wired magazine, Rose interviewed director James Cameron, who was filming Avatar at the time. “He The casual viewer could enjoy the movie on a basic level.

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Storytelling Leadership Education Audience 100

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

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Licensing Newsletter Storytelling Tools 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Disney’s existing contract to distribute Pixar films was slated to end in 2006 and Pixar had announced two years earlier it would not renew the arrangement.). Between the three acquisitions plus its own Walt Disney Animation and Walt Disney Pictures, Disney has built a studio with five film brands.

Creativity 8

Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

By 2006, the company received 150 T-shirt designs per day and had over 400,000 users voting on shirts. Star Wars fans are notorious for their psychological ownership of a film franchise they know intimately. Founded in 2000, the online firm allows users to submit t-shirt designs and vote on the best ones.

Productivity 10

Productivity Products Reis Film 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

The result: The Disney-Pixar postmerger rejuvenation was a resounding success, with an annualized total shareholder return of 22% since 2006 and a string of computer generated animation films, culminating in the highest grossing animation film ever, Frozen. Stay the exploratory course.

Film 8

Film Merchandising Creativity Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

The latter promptly announced plans to launch a third trilogy of Star Wars films in 2015, a move that will keep the brand alive and serve as a platform for selling products to a new generation of fans. Acquired in 2006 for $7.4 billion, handing over to Disney all rights to the Star Wars brand and properties.

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Franchising Licensing Merchandising Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

This conversation became a central part of the film Socheata created about her family. This film later led Socheata to found an organization that shares stories of the genocide to support the healing process of generations of surviving Cambodians and Cambodian-Americans. "We buried your aunt near here after she died," he uttered.

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Film Armstrong Video Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Working with Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) Bank , the largest women’s bank in India, we created a unique two-day business counseling program for women ages 18 to 50 who had actively saved or borrowed from the bank between December 2004 and January 2006. vegetable vendors, tailors, etc.)

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Banking Training Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

Energy 11

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

At Uber, the idea for the business has been portrayed as this stroke of ingenuity, but I learned it was actually inspired by a product placement in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. There are often multiple people, some of whom don’t hang around, so these stories evolve over time.

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CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Executives dismissed the argument, with Tony Ridder, the gruff chairman and chief executive of Knight-Ridder (which was sold to McClatchy in 2006 for what now appears an incredible $4.5 billion), proclaiming McKinsey’s analysis “shallow and superficial.”. When the industry tipped, it did so with a fury.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

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. Participatory environment – do stakeholders feel involved?

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. A century ago Leica brought to market the first lightweight camera, whose most distinctive feature was the quality of its lens, allowing small film images to be blown up without losing much resolution.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. The crazy solution: Brandeau asked Disney Animation (Disney bought Pixar in 2006) if the studio could borrow 250 computers, an idea someone initially called “insane.”

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. The crazy solution: Brandeau asked Disney Animation (Disney bought Pixar in 2006) if the studio could borrow 250 computers, an idea someone initially called “insane.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The 2006 ruling of Judge Margaret McVeigh of the New Jersey Superior Court highlights the root of the problem with exclusivity in partnership contracts: Amazon.com did not want a ten year agreement. The courts did not take sides clearly in this dispute. So it has a place in partnership strategy. It can work, but it's rare.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Valve Corporation's game platform, Steam , developed an anti-cheat solution in 2006 after it detected 10,000 cheating attempts in a single week. It's possible to take a look at the casual and online gaming communities, where the concept has its roots, to identify potential pitfalls and solutions. As of 2012, it had terminated more than 1.5

Airlines 8

Airlines Film Industry Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Ed Catmull is a co-founder and the longtime head of Pixar Animation Studios, which struggled for 10 years from its founding in 1986 until the runaway success in 1995 of its first feature film, Toy Story. With the acquisition of Pixar by Walt Disney in 2006, Catmull became president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Management Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

It pulled out of the cinema business in 2006 because China''s regulations prohibited foreign control of those ventures. And Beijing has done little over the years to stop the piracy that is devastating Time Warner''s film distribution business in Asia. In fact, Time Warner, like many multinationals, has had a hard go of it in China.

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Magazine Globalization Film Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

It''s only through history and books or films that my generation has a grasp of what life must have been like. Just recently, I had the chance to watch the German film, The Lives of Others , which won the 2007 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. And you could even see symptoms of the problem overseas.

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