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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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Remembering a Leader in Green Energy

Coaching Tip

Stanford Ovshinsky 1922-2012. 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. and General Motors for which he developed the battery that powered the EV1, GM's electric car. photovoltaic industry.

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The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain

Harvard Business Review

The truth is, AI is as “fully-automated” as the Great and Powerful Oz was in that famous scene from the classic film , where Dorothy and friends realize that the great wizard is simply a man manically pulling levers from behind a curtain. Who are these workers behind the AI curtain?

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Five of Steve Jobs's Biggest Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

Feeling that he needed an experienced operating and marketing partner, the then 29-year-old Jobs lured Sculley to Apple with the now legendary pitch: "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? billion in 2012. Here are five of Jobs's greatest mistakes, all of which history shows he ultimately learned from: 1.

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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. Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue. The results were amazing.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’ They require human development, mentoring, knowledge enhancement and much more to be successful. We Earn It.

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What Gamers Can Teach Us About Fraud

Harvard Business Review

Valve Corporation's game platform, Steam , developed an anti-cheat solution in 2006 after it detected 10,000 cheating attempts in a single week. As of 2012, it had terminated more than 1.5 Here's the solution we proposed: almost any online company, particularly a game developer, has vast amounts of unstructured data at its fingertips.