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- Guitar Hero and Gibson Squabble
- Gibson Guitar Inc., the legendary guitar maker, and Activision Inc., the maker of the now legendary Guitar Hero video game franchise, are in a squabble that I find to be rather interesting. Let's look at the basic facts: The Guitar Hero videogame - where players use a...
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
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- Guitar Hero and Gibson Squabble
- Guitar Hero and Gibson SquabbleRE: Guitar Hero and Gibson SquabbleMy 61 year old husband and avid quitar player in his youth and a long time band member, loves guitar hero and his gibson guitar. Also, my 14 year old grandson is a newly budding guitar player and a member...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- How Trade Names Were Instrumental in Creating Liquidity for Gibson Guitar
- Nashville, Tennessee-based Gibson Guitar Corporation found out how valuable its trade names are when it secured a $136.2 million credit facility. Its trade names - which include Gibson, Epiphone, Baldwin and Wurlitzer - took center stage in determining how much the music icon could borrow. The Gibson deal exemplifies why...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- I Love Jott/God Bless the Internet
- I Love Jott/God Bless the InternetI love jott as well!Its great to see jotters out there! I'm glad you have discovered the wonders of this thing! I found it most useful being a musician. I can sing my guitar riffs right into the phone and the audio will be home...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- One iPhone Trades for Three... And a Car
- It was about a week ago that teenager George Hotz attracted nationwide attention for cracking the iPhone. Last Saturday, the world's second cracked iPhone traded for three uncracked iPhones and a Nissan 350Z. In case you wonder how he achieved the hack in the first...
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- First Sun Case Study: Polhemus' Handheld 3D Laser Scanner Is Used to Create Digital Images for Character Animation in Movies
- First Sun is an associated company of The Gibson Group, which is recognized as one of New Zealand's leading independent film and television production companies. The challenge for First Sun when working on Demons was the daunting task of developing special effects on a budget that was considered very limited...
- Case studies
- Situated Trio: An Interactive Live Performance for a Hexaphonic Guitarist and Two Computer Musicians With Expressive Controllers
- This paper accompanies and describes a live interactive performance by guitarist John Schott and computer musicians Matthew Wright and David Wessel, each of whom use a combination of controllers. The proposed work involves composed situations that define the modes of interaction among the musicians and the musical materials available to...
- White papers 2002-06-04
- Find Passion at Work
- Is it really so unrealistic to want to love your job? Marci Alboher, who writes the Shifting Careers column for The New York Times, asked several career coaches how they would advise people who want to feel passionate about their work. Alboher herself gives a great piece...
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Great Intrapreneurs in Business History
- These five products have one thing in common: Each started out as an idea hatched by a mid-level employee — and ended up changing a company or revolutionizing an industry. Post-it Notes Intrapreneurs: Spencer Silver and Art Fry...
- Articles 2008-04-10
- You Pick, I Review
- Harvard Business School Press sent me its Spring 2008 catalog. Tell me what you'd like to see reviewed. Books on the way include: Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures -- and Yours, by Tarun Khanna ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- 'Made in the USA' Gets a Makeover
- What does a 'Made in the U.S.A.' label convey? Years ago the label appealed mostly to blue collar workers worried about the flight of manufacturing jobs overseas and those interested in trumpeting their down-home patriotism. No longer, reports the NY Times today. The label has new cachet. ...
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- The Ownership of Glass Lewis Is All Wrong
- Glass Lewis & Co. is one of the cops on the beat. Although not as powerful as Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), Glass Lewis' ratings of companies and their corporate governance practices really matter. And in contested proxy battles, many investors turn to Glass Lewis for its opinion. ...
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- The Six Rules of Selling for Start-ups
- The Six Rules of Selling for Start-upsre. "Don't be afraid to bail"I think that particular rule is the one that folks have the hardest time grasping. In the IT industry, in particular - start-up sales folks get so enamored with the tier-1 enterprise customers of the world that...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Consumers Mark Tax Rebates For Bills and Savings
- By Nick Carey GIBSON CITY, Illinois (Reuters) - The first batch of taxpayers has already started to receive their federal tax rebates as part of the economic stimulus package, but very few consumers interviewed by Reuters in the past week said they ...
- News items 2008-05-07
- Rejection is a Hallucination
- Fear of rejection is the bane of sales success. If rejections scare you, you'll avoid cold-calling, balk at hard bargaining and hesitate to close. And that's ironic, because rejection is only a hallucination. It isn't real. Let me explain.Suppose you make a cold call and the prospect hangs up on...
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing?
- The Idea in Brief Incremental innovations (small, safe changes to your firm's offerings) make up 85%-90% of companies' development portfolios. But "little i" projects rarely produce competitive advantage. For that, you need "Big I" innovations--offerings new to...
- Articles 2008-02-25
- VIEWPOINT: EA might buy its way into the social networking MMO sphere
- Major video games publisher Electronic Arts (EA) is in advanced talks to buy gaming social network Rupture for USD30m, reports Techcrunch. Although still in beta, Rupture is known to offer a social network around ?World of Warcraft’. More recently, however, the startup expanded its offering by adding new online...
- News items 2008-05-09
- Australia Says No Block to China Resource Investment
- By Michael Perry SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Sunday no Chinese companies have been told to withdraw applications to buy into Australian resource firms, despite media reports Canberra was pressuring China to back away from such investment. China's miners and steelmakers are...
- News items 2008-04-26
- Motivating Team Members
- Organizational success has always depended on delivering results through teamwork. However, with the increasing prevalence of flat, networked, and matrix structures, effective teamwork is becoming even more criticalIn these types of organizational structures, individuals come together—forming teams—for the duration of a project or for the amount of time it takes...
- Articles 2007-10-24
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