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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. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This generation is the first to be raised in a post-industrial era driven by technology.

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Fujifilm Succeeded Where Kodak Failed

Coaching Tip

This is CEO Shigetaka Komari's own story of why Fujifilm succeeded where Eastman Kodak failed with hard-won lessons for managers and employees everywhere. Eastman Kodak was head and shoulders above all the others in the manufacture of photographic film when Fujifilm wasn't in 1963. Kodak's technology was also far ahead of Fujifilm's.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Consider Fuji Photo Film. Why did this happen?

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How to Prepare for a Crisis You Couldn’t Possibly Predict

Harvard Business Review

On the morning of May 18, 2012, at precisely 11:05, Nasdaq planned to execute the first trade in in Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offering. With billions of dollars poised to change hands and the spotlight on, Nasdaq managers scrambled to diagnose the problem, dialing into an emergency conference call to troubleshoot.

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Do Apps Have Social Responsibility?

Harvard Business Review

But the Strava case is prescient as we continue to develop digital technologies that influence the emotions and impulses that make us so darned human. How Hollywood can Capitalize on Piracy MIT Technology Review When the rogue file-sharing site Megaupload was shuttered in 2012, legal online revenue for blockbuster films rose.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” Importantly, the research landscape we mapped out suggests that disruption is not about technology alone, but rather the combination of technologies and business model innovation. It appealed to a niche of film nerds.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses.

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