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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business Review

Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. But in 2003, the company didn’t realize the mega hit it was about to have with the Noah’s Ark play set. The luxury SUV that set a record for pre-sales.

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When Talent Started Driving Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

before overhead and marketing and distribution costs) of his next project, the 1981 blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark , in exchange for directing and producing the movie, which made him a multi-billionaire and changed the balance of power between stars and studios.

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Arc is Electrifying Green Building

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Already approaching a Billion square of projects not only in the United States but also from India to Sweden and Israel to Bhutan, if you are not familiar with the Arc platform, that helps a building owner measure performance and benchmark against others, you are missing out on what is transmogrifying the built environment.