Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

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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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Michael Blake's 1988 book of the same name would be adapted into the 1990 Hollywood blockbuster western film directed, produced and starring Kevin Costner. Double Robotics integrates robotic technology to make human beings more effective and more connected. Double Robotics doesn't replace the human with a robot.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

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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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 22, 2012

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. The company was a world leader in the technology but recently declared bankruptcy amid down times in the U.S. photovoltaic industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

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? Steve Jobs was brilliant about understanding how technology vectors were evolving, yet even he screwed up royally, and often.

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