Abandoning Innovation in Emerging Industries* Rajshree Agarwal College of Business University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 350 Wohlers Hall, 1206 S. Sixth Street Champaign, IL 61822 Voice: (217) 265-5513 agarwalr@uiuc.edu Barry L. Bayus Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina CB 3490 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Voice: (919) 962-3210 Barry_Bayus@UNC.edu Mary Tripsas Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Road Boston, MA 02163 Voice: (617) 495-8407 mtripsas@hbs.edu Preliminary Draft
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start up costs as well as large purchase agreements. In 1983, Sun Microsystems signed a multimillion-dollar original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Computervision Corporation. Shortly after, Sun Microsystems signed large OEMs with Eastman Kodak Corporation, AT&T Corporation, and Xerox Corporation. The OEMs for which Sun Microsystems built computers that sold the workstations under their own labels brought the company strong revenue and profit growth. Sun Microsystems passed $1 billion in
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Photography and Time-Base Media Another type of two-dimensional media is photography and camera art, this type of media allows the artist to explore the fourth dimension – time. Camera record the world around us, and the history of the camera is a history of technologies that record our world with ever0inceasing sophistication and expertise. Photography started in 1838 with still images, but the still images generated the though that might be possible to capture the object in motion as well
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Performance Indicator: * The issues of the case revolved around coordination problems, spillover problems and value creation and capture (technology without a business model). * In conclusion, we should be: * Concerned if success requires all parties to move at once: the coordination problem * Concerned if the plan requires a third party to make an investment that benefits the industry as a whole: the spillover problem * Alert for value creation and capture problems
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It was basically a combination of group of film companies which were Lubin, Vitagraph, Edison, etc. Edison trust also included the largest distribution company of that time which was owned by George Kleine and the top film stock supplier, Eastman Kodak. This company was created to monopolise the film industry. To break this monopoly, some filmmakers in 1908 started an independent film movement. These filmmakers believed that the Edison trust were trying to control the art form of filmmaking and wanted
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Just before dawn on July 6, 1945, only a few clouds hung over the still New Mexico desert. The air possessed that lucid clarity which skews all sense of distance and space. Out on the desert stood several large towers, yet from the perspective of the blockhouse, where the observers anxiously waited, they appeared as little more than a few spikes stuck in the sand. Suddenly, one of the towers erupted into a brilliant fireball, searing the air and instantly replacing the dawn’s pastels with a blazing
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executives, product delays and marketing missteps have all played major roles. Yet the overarching problem may be plain-old inertia. It's not unknown in technology, where in a number of areas speedy newcomers have overtaken the old guard. The stalwart Kodak is in bankruptcy, and once-scrappy favorite Nokia is struggling. "Over the last decade, RIM ruled the smartphone space. They didn't have to worry about marketing," said independent tech analyst Jeff Kagan. "But in the last four years, the Apple iPhone
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HSBC’s Investment Bank Profit Falls, U.S. Bad Loans Increase http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-09/hsbc-s-investment-bank-profit-falls-u-s-bad-loans-increase.html Italy Debt Crisis Italy officially the Italian Republic is a unitary parliamentary republic in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia–the two largest islands in the Mediterranean
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How 'Welfare Capitalism' Can Save Our Country By Frank Koller Posted 3:00PM 09/19/11 Economy, General Electric , Procter & Gamble Comments Print Text Size A A A Print this page|EmailShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on DiggShare on Lifestream [pic] [pic]Bleak. Desperate. Urgent. The words leap from almost every headline about the state of the American economy these days. Official unemployment is stuck north of 9%, while the effective rate is likely above 16%. Millions of people are suffering
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technology self-expands in its two traits to the world: Breadth and Depth. So how could these two expansions traditionally make exponential impacts in century? Take camera as an example, it has been evolved from the world’s first digital camera – Kodak Digital Camera at 1975 which cannot take video-taped to the nowadays digital single-lens reflex camera at 2016 which can offer superb image quality and video recording at 4K resolution. In terms of performance, instead of using camera to capture best
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