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Industry Moves: Microsoft' s AdECN Head Jeff Green Is Out
Online ad vet Jeff Green has left his post as COO of Microsoft’s AdECN ad exchange, MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka reports. Green’s responsibilities will be handled by Jed Nahum, who currently serves as business integration director for adECN at Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and David Coburn, AdECN’s product manager. In a...
Tags: COO, Industry, Microsoft Corp., Online Advertising, AdECN, Advertising, Industry Moves, Companies, Microsoft, David Kaplan
External links 2009-10-06
Industry Moves: The Orchard CEO Greg Scholl Exits; 20 Percent Of Staff Is Laid Off
Greg Scholl is leaving his post as president and CEO of digital music label The Orchard. He says he’ll be taking an executive post at another company on November 1; he didn’t offer any details. The Orchard’s director Danny Stein will become interim CEO until the company finds a...
Tags: Industry, Orchard, Greg Scholl, Digital Music, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, Music, Industry Moves, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-30
Industry Moves: MySpace Founding CTO Whitcomb Leaving; Replaced By MySpace Music's Maghen
MySpace Music CTO Aber Whitcomb, who was part of the social network’s founding team—and was responsible for making the rapid, crazy-quilt growth work, is leaving “to pursue other opportunities.” Instead of going outside the company, MySpace Music CTO Alex Maghen will succeed Whitcomb and report to COO Mike Jones....
Tags: CTO, Industry, Entertainment, MySpace, Music, Jones, Advertising & Promotion, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Industry Moves, Social Media, Companies, News Corp., Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-09-30
Industry Moves: Former YouTube Ad Exec Shashi Seth To Head AOL's Global Ad Products
Another Googler has landed at AOL… The latest is former YouTube monetization head Shashi Seth, who will now serve as SVP for Global Ad Products at AOL (NYSE: TWX). Seth left as YouTube’s head of monetization in June 2008 to become chief revenue office for image and video searcher...
Tags: Advertisement, America Online Inc., Industry, YouTube Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Advertising, Industry Moves, Companies, Time Warner, AOL, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-29
Industry Moves: Former iVillage Exec Deborah Fine Named CEO Of Direct Brands
Deborah Fine, the former head of NBC Universal’s iVillage, is taking on the CEO role at Direct Brands, the operator of Book of the Month club and DVD purveyor Columbia House, the company announced. In September 2008, Fine was moved out of her post as president of iVillage after...
Tags: Brand, Industry, iVillage Inc., Direct Brands, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Retail, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Entertainment, Movies, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Books, Companies, NBC Universal, iVillage, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-29
Industry Moves: Goom Radio CEO Williams Quits
Goom Radio CEO Rob Williams is leaving the heavily-funded internet radio startup, paidContent has learned. Williams, a former Clear Channel (NYSE: CCMO) Radio New York president and market manager, had taken over the CEO job at Goom just last January, according to his LinkedIn profile; a spokeswoman says Williams...
Tags: Advertisement, Internet Radio, Industry, CEO, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-09-29
Printer Industry Switching from Razor Blade Model -- Is It Too Late?
For years the printer industry worked on the razor marketing theory: Give away the devices and make money selling the inks. Eventually that became practically giving away the printers. But it's starting to look like those days are gone. Here's some of the evidence: by Erik Sherman
Tags: Blade, Industry, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2009-09-25
Industry Moves: Safka Steps Down As Chegg CEO
Jim Safka, the former Ask.com CEO, has stepped down as CEO of heavily-funded online textbook rental service Chegg after less than four months on the job. In a statement, Safka says he is leaving Chegg to spend more time with his family. “Due to the extraordinary demands of Chegg...
Tags: Industry, CEO, Chegg, Rashid, E-books, Cellular Phones, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Books, eReaders, Companies, IAC, Joseph Tartakoff
External links 2009-09-26
Industry Moves Round-Up: AOL; Namco; Elsevier; PC World; Machinima
—AOL: Caroline Campbell is taking on the role of VP of corporate communications at AOL (NYSE: TWX). She had already been working with the company for a few months in her role at PR firm Porter Novelli. Campbell previously worked in corporate communications at Google.—Namco: Catherine Fowler is now...
Tags: America Online Inc., VP, Industry, Namco, PC World, Sales Strategy, Public Relations, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Industry Moves, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-09-25
Auto Industry and Green Groups Agree on Landmark Climate Policy
In a swift bit of Congressional maneuvering September 24, the U.S. Senate rejected a proposed amendment from longtime global warming skeptic Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) that would have effectively killed President Obama’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. What’s interesting is that the auto industry itself opposed...
Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, Industry, Greenhouse Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Amendment, Murkowski, Climate Emission, Manufacturing, Jim Motavalli
Blog posts 2009-09-25
Data Miner in the Insurance Industry
With the lack of competition due to protective regulations, insurance companies have been slow to adopt data mining tools commonly used in other industries. However, deregulation and growing competition have insurance companies moving to more towards customer-centric operations, and the need for such tools has become vital to the industry....
Tags: Industry, Insurance Company, StatSoft, Insurance, Data Mining, Financial Planning, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Marketing, Management
White papers 2004-03-15
Breathing Shoes and Complementarities: How Geox Has Rejuvenated the Footwear Industry
The related notions of complementarities and performance landscapes have been applied to study strategic positioning in the footwear industry. This theoretical framework is used to analyze Geox, an Italian footwear manufacturer that, in less than a decade, has grown to be one of the world largest brown shoe manufacturers, outperforming...
Tags: Performance, Industry, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Geox, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 2005-06-01
Reengineering the Furniture Industry in Egypt to Help Improve Its Export Capability: A System Dynamics View
The furniture industry around the world is undergoing a period of rapid globalization. With the rapid globalization of the furniture industry and the competitive pressures of imports, a nation had to find a way to stay competitive. The objective of the paper is to propose group of policies that might...
Tags: Industry, Re-engineering, Furniture Industry, System Dynamic Methodology, Globalization, Strategy, Management
White papers 2002-06-27
Newspaper Advocates Press Congress For Help (But Don't Call It A Bailout)
With government bailouts now about as popular with taxpayers as “death panels,” a trio of newspaper advocates lobbied on Capitol Hill this morning for some subtler ways that the government can help save the industry. One example: a proposal by Newspaper Association of America CEO and President John Sturn...
Tags: Newspaper, Industry, U.S. Congress, Bailout, Strategy, Management, Legal, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-24
Full Disclosure: Schlumberger, Hydraulic Fracking and the Public Access Debate
Oilfield services giant Schlumberger is pushing its suppliers for permission to reveal the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, a technique used to access oil and gas trapped in hard-to-reach shale formations, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Fracking has been used for decades. But it has become the subject of a recent regulatory...
Tags: Schlumberger Ltd., Chemicals, Microsoft Access, Industry, Oil & Gas, Fracking, Mixture, Safety Data Sheet, Chesapeake, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2009-09-30
Worthington Industries F1Q10 (Qtr End 8/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from Mr. Richard Arch at Torino. Your line is open. Richard Arch - Torino A couple of questions -- number one, just looking at the steel business, it looks like there was a good improvement on costs there, which...
Tags: Acquisition, Industry, Sanmina-SCI Corp., Call Transcript, Efficiency, Earnings, John P. McConnell George, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Seeking Alpha, Worthington Industries Inc.
Earnings calls 2009-09-30
Industry Moves Round Up: MySpace; DISH; MSGE; Cheezburger Net; Hitachi; Time Out Chicago
—MySpace: Mark Rosenbaum will be the social network’s CFO, a newly created position. He will oversee all finance and accounting operations and report to CEO Owen Van Natta. Before MySpace, Rosenbaum served as a consultant to MGM and was an SVP, Corporate Finance at Gemstar-TV Guide.—DISH Network: The satellite...
Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Industry, Chicago, MySpace, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Storage, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Alex Ferreyra
External links 2009-10-06
Industry Moves: Playboy Reorg Promotes Vaickus To President; Digital Head Stephen Adds Print Duties
As Playboy (NYSE: PLA) Enterprises’ sale plans remain in a state of suspended animation, the company is making some internal moves as it looks to improve its dismal print and digital businesses. As part of a small restructuring, Alex Vaickus is being promoted from his current perch as ...
Tags: Industry, Playboy, Industry Moves, Entertainment, Adult, Media & Publishing, Magazines, David Kaplan
External links 2009-10-06
The Power of Goal Setting
I was recently invited by Phil Taylor of Goal Achievers International to join his LinkedIn network. At 65 I have achieved most of what I have wanted in life but as I skimmed his website, much of what he said resonated with me particularly about the importance of writing...
Tags: Industry, Goal-setting, Survey, Graduate, CEO, Rut, Investment Banker, Robert J. Traxel, Professional Development, Operational Planning, Strategy, Career, Business Operations, Management, Chris Golis
Blog posts 2009-10-05
Industry Moves: Buckley Joins Silverman At IAC
Drew Buckley has left Terry Semel’s Windsor Media to work as a senior executive with Ben Silverman, paidContent has learned and confirmed with IAC (NSDQ: IACI). An IAC spokeswoman said details would be forthcoming. by Staci D. Kramer
Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., Industry, Strategy, Management, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Companies, IAC, Staci D. Kramer
External links 2009-10-05
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