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Know When to Kill Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

But as Netflix and online media channels developed, Blockbuster was no longer unique in fulfilling that purpose, and the way it fulfilled it became anachronistic. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. Financial crises hit sources of collateral like real estate particularly hard, and this has negatively impacted smaller firms credit scores. Finance Small/medium business Technology'

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What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

Then Shiller jumped in with a fourth: “The news media are involved. There were no bubbles before there were news media.”. They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. That is, it was selling at a price that no plausible growth scenario could justify.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

The media circus jumped on all facets of the conflicts, as well as lawsuits filed. Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Firestone blamed Ford for unsafe vehicles.

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