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Blogging as a Business Model
It's always nice to see an old friend succeed, especially when he does so by turning conventional wisdom on its head. And that's exactly what Josh Micah Marshall did last week by winning a prestigious George Polk Award for his Talking Points Memo blog site TPM. Eight...
Tags: Internet, Management, Strategy, Blogging, Business Model, Audience, David Weir
Blog posts 2008-02-25
Using Industry Disruption to Your Advantage
Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen calls it "disruptive innovation": a product or service so groundbreaking that it changes the competitive landscape, pushes former industry powerhouses toward extinction, and anoints a new, small group of usually young companies to leadership positions. Think of what peer-to-peer networking and iTunes are...
Tags: Business Model, Health Care, Management, Sean Silverthorne, Strategy
Blog posts 2007-11-26
Collaboration Strategy: The Key to Innovation
Big Pharma's playing nice; at least five of the big players are collaborating with competitors, sharing intellectual property, splitting costs, and sharing proceeds of future drugs. Considering the challenges facing the industry at present -- competition from generic drugmakers, tough FDA regulations, and high costs associated with bringing a drug to market...
Tags: Strategy, Leadership, Business Model, Collaboration, Innovation, Management, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-08-31
The New York Twimes: Should a Newspaper Buy Twitter?
Is Twitter the savior of the newspaper industry? According to Harvard Business Publishing blogger Umair Haque, Twitter would provide the Old Gray Lady a marriage he refers to as the Twimes with four resources it needs to survive in the 21st century: viral distribution, context, relational capital,...
Tags: Business Model, Twitter, Umair Haque, Strategy, Management, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2009-04-24
General Electric Company Business Update Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Robert Cornell – Barclays Capital Robert Cornell – Barclays Capital You certainly gave us a good overview and I think a lot of people feel more comfortable with what you’re doing but you’re talking about...
Tags: Capital Market, General Electric Co., Call Transcript, Business Model, Strategy, Investment, Financial Services, Management, Finance, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-12-02
Herbalife Limited Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Simeon Gutman. Simeon Gutman - Goldman Sachs Hey for Michael and Greg. How do you insulate this business model from reputation challenges, and we spoken about it in the...
Tags: Distributor, Business Opportunity, Call Transcript, Business Model, Earnings, Strategy, Management, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2007-11-07
Starting Up Your Own Online Business Is A Good Idea
Starting up an internet business is a good idea, but designing a business model is where the actual risk lies. You might even have a good business model with sure fire ideas but still it requires a lot of confidence to start up your own business. Starting an E-Business takes...
Tags: Idea, Business Model, Internet, Strategy, Management
White papers 2009-01-01
Three Steps To Sustainable And Scalable Change: Part 1 - Rethinking A Company's Business Model
Even the best business models eventually become obsolete. Yet companies are often reluctant to tinker with something so crucial to their business - particularly if it has served them well in the past. Instead, they pursue isolated improvements within a single area or function, only to find that the changes...
Tags: Deloitte LLP, Business Model, Strategy, Management
White papers 2008-04-15
Paths To Success: Three Ways To Innovate Your Business Model
In the ever-changing times, innovation in business models is a success differentiator for CEOs. But what is business model innovation and what can be learned from successful business model innovators? Based on their experience, an extensive literature review and an analysis of 35 best practice cases, IBM first developed a...
Tags: Business Model, Best Practice, IBM Corp., Business Model Innovation, Strategy, Management
White papers 2007-06-01
Winning In China's Mass Markets: New Business Models, New Operations For Profitable Growth
Foreign companies must alter their business models and operations to tap China's rapidly growing mass markets where scale matters and price is king. Prosperity outside of major coastal cities, an evolving middle class and fierce competition will drive more companies to develop innovative, low-cost business models to reach new markets...
Tags: China, Business Model, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Sales, Management
White papers 2007-02-01
Getting To Know Business Models
When evaluating a company as a possible investment, learn exactly how it makes its money. Then think about how attractive and profitable that business model is. Admittedly, the business model doesn't tell you everything about a company's prospects, but investors with a business model frame of mind can make better...
Tags: Investopedia, Business Model, Strategy, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
E-Commerce: 6 Of The Most Successful Internet Business Models
The business model is the key step before launching a commercial project. The business model is a study just before the business plan. The business plan outlines your project, describing its potential and the investment requirements while the business model itself defines a global strategy without going into further detail:...
Tags: Internet, Business Model, E-business, DiscoveryArticles.com, Strategy, Management
White papers 2008-06-21
Buying A Franchise - Internet Business Models
If you are considering buying a franchise, especially an internet business model, you should make yourself aware of the disadvantages of a franchise as well the advantages. There are many business models you can choose from, ranging from a traditional internet home business (if anything on the internet could be...
Tags: Business Model, Franchise, DiscoveryArticles.com, Internet, Strategy, Management
White papers 2008-05-09
American Express Company Q 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Brian Foran - Goldman Sachs. Brian Foran - Goldman Sachs I think the expense flexibility was surprisingly good in the quarter I think for a lot of people. As we look out into the rest of...
Tags: American Express Co., Business Model, Call Transcript, Earnings, Flexibility, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Human Resources, Management, Organizational Structure, Re-engineering, Seeking Alpha, Strategy
Earnings calls 2009-04-23
Is Goldman Sachs Heading to $20?
Rakesh Saxena submits: Those invested in Goldman Sachs GS should be hoping for a share buyout offer, triggered by the dire need to take the Wall Street investment bank private, prior to thoroughly revamping its business model. Otherwise, questions regarding Goldman's short and longer term viability will continue to linger,...
Tags: Business Model, Financial, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Rakesh Saxena, Seeking Alpha, Strategy
External links 2008-11-11
Why No Disruptive Business Models Emerge Inside Media
Before you conclude that what follows is entirely orthogonal to the media industry, please allow me the luxury of considering a few details of what I've been up to lately. Bear with me, please, this may be a winding path. The past few days I was visiting...
Tags: California Institute Of Technology, Media, Industry, Business Model, Story, Media Industry, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-07-18
What if Your Business Model Leads to Murder?
Let's say you work for Fox News, where the screamer Bill O'Reilly repeatedly pinpoints the whereabouts of one of the few doctors in the vast midwestern part of the country who provides late-term abortions, inflaming listeners by labeling this man "Dr. Killer," and then an assassin shoots the doctor down...
Tags: Facebook, Business Model, Hate-mongering, Strategy, Management, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-06-11
Free Is a Four-Letter Word
Walter Isaacson is generating lots of mostly scornful comments for his cover story in Time about How to Save Your Newspaper. For a good synopsis of his idea for saving papers and the scorn about it, see this BNET post, The Problems with Walter Isaacsons's Newspaper Rescue Plan. ...
Tags: Web, Web Advertising, Microsoft Word, Micropayment, Business Model, Walter Isaacson, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2009-02-11
Clay Christensen on Reinventing Your Business Model
Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen, best know for developing the concept of disruptive innovation, provides an enlightening video interview on business model reinvention. Disruptive innovation essentially teaches that established companies are vulnerable to upstarts because they are reluctant to depart from what has made them successful....
Tags: Business Model, Strategy, Management, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2009-01-07
Reinventing Your Business Model | HBR IdeaCast
For big, established firms, introducing a new business model is no easy task, especially when there's some start-up poised to steal business the minute the competitive landscape changes. But according to disruptive innovation expert Clay Christensen, if companies truly understand how their new business model relates to the...
Tags: Business Model, Podcasts, Strategy, Mainframes, Internet, Management, Servers, Hardware, BNET Staff
Blog posts 2008-12-04
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