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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies.

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How the Internet is Shaping Our "Global Brain"

Harvard Business Review

It's also how we should think about the way the Internet is developing, and about the way our choices in how we use technology are shaping this global brain. Vint Cerf, considered one of the co-creators of the Internet's architecture, wrote in a 2012 New York Times Op-Ed that "The Internet stands at a crossroads.

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A Lesson In Innovation From The Red Planet

Tanveer Naseer

was the joyous cry that rang out across the central quad at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the night of August 5, 2012. When it came to landing the car-sized rover on Mars in 2012, there simply was no precedent – nothing nearly that big had ever landed there. Then Pathfinder separated from the rockets and slammed into Mars.

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Five of Steve Jobs's Biggest Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

As I wrote in Little Bets , when his first store opened in Seattle in 1986, there was non-stop opera music, menus in Italian, and no chairs. Instead, as Pixar historian David Price shows in his excellent book The Pixar Touch , Jobs believed that Pixar was going to be the next great hardware company. billion in 2012. The Newton.

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