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- Disney CEO Calls For Rethink of Movie Model: Report
- LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executive of Walt Disney has called for a thorough reexamination of the business model for marketing and producing movies as DVD sales tumble and distribution costs rise."The business model that underpins the movie business is changing," Bob Iger told the Financial Times in an interview...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Consumers in the Crosshairs
- Americans are being nickel and dimed with a barrage of special fees and charges. Here?s why ? and what you can do about it.The fees are insidious, in part because they?re so small. A buck here, $3 there; it barely seems worth breaking a sweat over. But these additional charges...
- Articles 2009-10-08
- Fees Gone Wild: Why You're Paying More for Everything
- Sneaky fees and hidden costs are popping up everywhere. But angry consumers may only have themselves to blame. Here's the truth about those hidden costs. With consumers demanding lower prices, businesses are seeking new ways to raise revenue, and have started charging separately for services...
- Articles 2009-10-08
- Sleep Well and Prosper
- Getting a good night's sleep is the single best way you never thought of to improve your abilities and human capital literally overnight. Sleep deprivation negatively impacts your decision-making, health, productivity, and mood, often in very significant ways…Pulling all-nighters for work used to be a sign of your drive and...
- Articles 2009-03-04
- On Rooftops, A Newly Attractive Form of Solar Power
- It may not be attractive to your pocketbook, but at least it'll look slick: Dow Chemical has unveiled a new solar rooftop shingle that converts the sun's rays to electricity. The shingles work just like solar panels, but without the bulky and ugly mounting systems used to attach panels to...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Apple App Store Vs. Android Vs. BlackBerry Vs. Ovi Vs….
- While Vic Gundotra, Google's developer evangelist, argues that mobile applications will be sold through Web browsers rather than app stores controlled by handset makers, most mobile apps today are sold through app stores. Microsoft Windows Mobile for which there is no app store at this point aside,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Kraft: Caught in a Price Vise
- On Wednesday, I noted that Kraft and Sara Lee's disappointing most-recent quarters were due in part to their pricing strategies. The companies have raised prices to cover commodity costs that soared in the first half of last year, and have since come down. Retail prices, though, haven't....
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- ADM Profits Soar; CEO Lashes Out at Ethanol Critics
- Archer Daniels Midlands' ethanol business is down, and its costs are growing. Costs are also squeezing its mainstay corn syrup operations and its oilseeds-processing business. And yet on Tuesday, it released third-quarter results showing profits up by 42 percent and sales up by 64 percent. That's because...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Gulfport Energy Corporation Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Certainly. Operator instructions And your first question comes from the line of Ron Mills of Johnson Rice. Please proceed. Ron Mills – Johnson Rice Good morning. Jim Palm Good morning, Ron. Ron Mills – Johnson Rice Couple – a couple of questions for you. Should I read...
- Earnings calls 2009-03-21
- Jet Blue Reducing Customer Perks
- Vince Thompson, business consultant and author, shares his insights on the extra charges airlines are slapping onto travelers. Jet Blue, he says, shouldn't claim paying for clean pillows is a good thing—that's just admitting they've been giving us dirty ones all along.
- Videos 2008-09-24
- Building Envelope: Metal Buildings - Green & Good Looking
- In today's environment, building owners and designers must try to meet an ever-expanding range of requirements for new facilities, whether they are hospitals, outpatient centers or educational buildings. Costs are always important and now green or sustainable building is an increasingly important factor in new construction. Additionally, a new facility...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Interview Question: How Do You Deal With Budget Problems, Like Overruns?
- The budget is the Holy of Holies of management. Any budget questions should be treated like land mines. If you're handling budgets, be prepared for a long session on everything you know. There are so many subjects and questions we can't go through all the possibilities, but the problem solving...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Resourcing The Challenges Of Maturity - An Oil Industry View
- The maturity of Western economies is linked to lower birth rates and fewer college graduates, just as companies are striving to expand into new markets in developing countries. Whereas food or automobile manufacturers are free to move their production base relatively easily to lower-cost locations, oil companies have little option...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Application System Design And Development Using A Systematic Approach
- New system development can be complicated, especially when using new technology. Costs are minimized when the entire process is comprehensive and controlled. The value proposition of using good consultants that process can be streamlined and improved, minimizing and controlling risk while maximizing the probability of success. Application systems are generally...
- White papers 2008-01-03
- Where insight and information technology come together: Combining clinical expertise and cutting-edge technology to transform healthcare
- Healthcare systems around the world are being pushed to the breaking point. Costs are rising, quality is inconsistent and access to care in many countries is insufficient. In addition, globalization, consumerism, demographic shifts and expensive new technologies and treatments are driving the need for fundamental change. The...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Employment-Based Health Insurance Is Failing: Now What?
- This paper reveals that employment-based health insurance is failing. Costs are out of control. Employers have no effective strategy to deal with this. This analysis explains how employers' purchasing policies contribute to rising costs and block growth of economical care. Single-source managed care is ineffective, and effective managed care cannot...
- White papers 2003-05-28
- Telemarketing and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
- Telemarketing is a practice where a business initiates a phone call in order to propose a commercial transaction. Millions of telemarketing calls are made to individuals every year. Business to consumer telemarketing takes place in two different ways: first, inbound telemarketing, and second, outbound telemarketing. It is popular because it...
- White papers 2003-11-03
- Lean Thinking, Value Analysis, and Six Sigma -- Cost Reduction structured for Market Growth
- The long-term viability of a company's business plan depends on sustaining its Competitive advantage is usually achieved through developing new products and services that satisfy and delight customers and through restructuring and improving business processes to improve quality and reduce costs -- adding Value. The application of the Brecker Product...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Slash Your Medical Bills: 7 Ways to Haggle
- Don?t be shy about bargaining over doctors? fees and hospital charges. Insurance companies pay a small fraction of the list price of medical procedures. You have nothing to lose, and lots to gain, by asking for a similar deal. Rising out-of-pocket costs have...
- Articles 2009-11-04
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- Controlling Business Costs
- Wise control of business costs will help you improve profitability, grow during good times, and better survive the bad times. If you look carefully at your business operations, you'll probably find many opportunities to control and even reduce costs.What You Need to KnowHow can I get a handle on what...
- Articles 2007-05-01
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