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Bullied by a Monopoly

In the CEO Afterlife

So I approached the maker and negotiated a deal whereby they would produce for me under a brand that I would create for a niche market – the tourist and gourmet trade. Well, I already had a bar code; now I was told that I had to join this organization and pay annually or my products would no longer be handled by chain retailers.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

What he said was when you see them entering the market as these worse-but-cheaper alternatives, that’s when you needed to start really investigating what those technologies were and how they were going to ultimately replace yours. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. DAVID: Yeah.

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LEGO’s Girl Problem Starts with Management

Harvard Business Review

When your leadership isn’t gender-balanced, it’s tough to have a balanced customer base. In business, this is what we call a market opportunity.) Gender Retail Strategy' The new ‘Research Institute’ range was proposed by geoscientist Ellen Kooijman on one of the company’s crowd-sourcing sites. (In