Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Develop your Expertise Daily ​ Becoming a true expert in any field doesn’t come overnight, it takes months and sometimes even years of consistent study and practice. Gaining the right knowledge is key to developing expertise so be discerning about who and where you get your information from. Make sure it's up to code.

Tips 95

Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

That’s where I learned to file license renewals. Cactus began developing special characters, with unique personas. During that time, he developed a famous sign-off phrase. Through the remotes, I learned how to feed lines and develop the talent to speak in sound bites, as I do for business media interviews to this day.

Pryor 50

Pryor Mentor Learning-by-Doing Audience 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

If and when the technology succeeded, that company stood to reap the rewards through the differentiation in its products, and often also by licensing the new intellectual property. In the co-dependent and highly productive interaction of Microsoft and outside developers there is an invisible handshake going on.

Franchising 14

Franchising Reference Innovation Licensing 14

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. They’ve never franchised. Their economic performance supports the theory that specialists beat generalists.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In the 1980s, I was part of the team that sold Sesame Street around the world — either licensed and broadcast in English or in locally adapted indigenous-language co-productions. And while school enrollment is at an all-time high, UNICEF has reported that the educational system is "inadequately developed." "The

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. Real Madrid: winning the hearts and minds of 500 million dedicated fans.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold. And, importantly, it would set up the sales and distribution infrastructure to sell the product to those who could afford to pay for it, while still focusing on bottom of the pyramid markets. The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty.

NGO 8

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. As a result, the U.S. based, with the rest coming from China. Competition.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Two developments bear noting. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. It focused its efforts on earning a majority share of Europe’s digital classified advertising market (a product that connects buyers and sellers).

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11