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Harvard's Anita Elberse: Forget the "Long Tail"
The Find: One Harvard Business School professor crunches the numbers and comes up with a startling conclusion for those in the media biz: forget the long tail, aim for the occasional and old fashioned blockbuster. The Source: An alaysis of sales patterns in the music and home-video...
Tags: Jessica Stillman, Marketing, Sales, Marketing Research, Retail, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Harvard, Tail, Long Tail
Blog posts 2008-06-30
But how did they know?(Prudential Asia Investment Ltd. advertising)(Brief Article)
PRUDENTIAL was like a puppy with its tail between legs last week -- or is that more like a donkey? Insider has learned that financial adviser Nick Mann has received a letter from the giant of the insurance world addressed to a certain Mr A...
Tags: advertisement, FINANCE, Insurance, Prudential Insurance Company of America, tail
Research articles 2004-08-26
AVIC I XI'AN ARM DELIVERED 1,000TH B737NG VERTICAL TAIL
AsiaInfo Services 11-30-2007 AVIC I Xi'an Arm Delivered 1,000th B737NG Vertical Tail XI'AN November 29, Nov 30, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Xi'an Aviation Industry Group Co., Ltd., an arm of China Aviation Industry Corporation I AVIC I, d AsiaInfo...
Tags: ARM, Boeing Co., tail
Research articles 2007-11-30
Father of Pilot Says Son Is Being Targeted for Blame in Fatal Crash.
By Maria Recio, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 1--WASHINGTON -- The older gentleman sitting at the back of the hearing room has been listening intently every day as investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, Airbus Industrie and...
Tags: Airbus S.A.S., American Airlines, tail
Research articles 2002-11-01
Manufacturing Defects In Composites Do Not Worsen
Visual Inspections Are Adequate for Safety, Airbus Maintains If damage or degradation is not seen on the surface of a composite material, there are no hidden flaws sufficient to compromise its structural strength. Thus, visual inspections provide adequate protection against structural failure and, in fact, other...
Tags: accident, Airbus S.A.S., defect, Manufacturing, tail
Research articles 2002-01-14
Why RTM Is Top Gun at Lockheed Martin.(Brief Article)
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, has demonstrated the potential for 60% manufacturing cost reduction by using the RTM process to make the vertical tail of the X-35A Joint Strike Fighter. The tail, made of BMI resin and graphite fab Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort...
Tags: Lockheed Martin Corp., tail
Research articles 2001-02-01
NTSB-PLANE CRASH UPDATE.
Government investigators are focusing on the tail section of doomed American Airlines Flight 587 after finding no evidence of engine failure, fire or explosives in the aftermath of the New York crash, the head of the National Transportation Safety B Government investigators are focusing on...
Tags: tail, Airbus S.A.S.
Research articles 2002-05-20
SAMF MAKING HORIZONTAL TAILS FOR BOEING
AsiaInfo Services 04-25-2003 SAMF Making Horizontal Tails for Boeing SHANGHAI, Apr 25, 2003 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory SAMF has completed and handed over 300 sets of horizontal tails for Boeing 737-NG, be AsiaInfo Services ...
Tags: Boeing Co., tail
Research articles 2003-04-25
Bumbling bureaucrats push stock futures into the future.
When it comes to trading single-stock futures, the tail has been wagging the dog for far too long. In this case, the tail is the federal bureaucracy, and the dog is Congress and the investing public. Single-stock futures are contracts to buy...
Tags: agency, investor, stock, tail, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2001-08-20
A300 HAD VERTICAL CFRP COMPOSITES FIN PROBLEM BEFORE FLIGHT 587.
May 27, 2003 - An Airbus jet of the same model experienced similar tail problems in 1997 to those of American Flight 587 in November 2001. Airbus officials said they did not know until last year's investigation of AA587 that pressures on the earlier May...
Tags: Airbus S.A.S., tail
Research articles 2003-06-16
Boeing May Make Minor 7E7 Changes to Vertical Stabilizer Design.
July 9, 2004 - Boeing, says Wichita officials, plans some changes to the 7E7 vertical stabilizer. The 7E7 vertical tail is currently designed with a leading edge curve from the fuselage to the tip, compared with the straight edge of current design July...
Tags: Boeing Co., tail
Research articles 2004-07-19
November 2002 NTSB Hearings on American 587 Crash Focus on the Pilot, Not the Composite Fin Part 1 of 2.
The National Transportation Safety Board NTSB concluded four days of preliminary hearings in November into the 2001 crash of American flight 587, whose composite tail failed less than 2 minutes after takeoff from JFK Airport last November. The inf The National Transportation Safety Board NTSB...
Tags: Airbus S.A.S., tail
Research articles 2002-12-02
Airbus Tail Fin Problem Found on Second American Aircraft.
American Airlines investigators have uncovered problems with the tail fin of a second American Airlines Airbus A300-600, one that experienced an inflight disturbance. Possibly this fin may provide clues about what might have led to the New York cras American Airlines investigators have uncovered problems...
Tags: Airbus S.A.S., aircraft, American Airlines, tail
Research articles 2002-03-18
Coherent Inc. F4Q09 (Qtr End 10/03/2009) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Larry Solow. Larry Solow - CJS Securities Good afternoon. John it sounds like sort of mix bag on why a big increase in bookings. It sounds like some of its just some annualized orders, which I imagine...
Tags: Tail, Inventory, Call Transcript, Earnings, Coherent Inc., Security, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-11-05
A New Reality: The Q Has Lost Its Tail
It has been observed that due to rapid technological advancement the quality factor has slowly lost its importance. Organizations are realizing that having effective and efficient processes and providing high quality products and services, while necessary, are not sufficient to survive long term. They are also realizing that customer focus...
Tags: Tail, Quality, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Leadership, Performance Management, Strategy, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-01-01
An Advanced Buffet Load Alleviation System
This paper described the development of advanced buffet load alleviation BLA system that utilizes distributed piezoelectric actuators in conjunction with an active rudder to reduce the structural dynamic response of the F/A-18 aircraft vertical tails to buffet loads. The BLA system was defined analytically with a detailed finite-element-model of the...
Tags: Tail, NASA, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
White papers 2001-04-26
Extreme Observations and Diversification in Latin American Emerging Equity Markets
This paper focuses on the tails of the unconditional distribution of Latin American emerging markets stock returns. The paper explores their implications for portfolio diversification according to the safety first principle. The paper also finds that the Latin American emerging markets have significantly fatter tails than industrial markets, especially, the...
Tags: University Of Houston, Tail, Diversification, Equity, Asset Management, Financial Services, Marketing Research, Investment, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Marketing, Finance
White papers
Building Truss Roofs the Safe Way
The paper focuses on preassembling of truss roof sections on the ground that decreases risk and saves time. A veteran builder can describes this step-by-step method. The girder truss or hip girder is the backbone of the hip roof truss assembly; most roofs require a double girder truss. Attached to...
Tags: Tail, Trusses, Telecommunications
White papers 2001-12-01
Biograph: Pancreatic Carcinoma
A middle-aged man presented with acute epigastric pain. An abdominal CT was performed and showed streaks of fat around the body and tail of the pancreas, consistent with acute pancreatitis. Additional findings included a somewhat bulky pancreas head without any focal hypodensities. The patient was referred for an FDG PET/CT...
Tags: Tail, Siemens AG
Case studies 2005-11-28
Glu Mobile, Inc.Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Tavis McCourt. Justin Patterson - Morgan, Keegan & Company Thanks guys this is Justin Patterson in for Tavis today. Just a couple quick questions. First a housekeeping item. Could you repeat what CapEx was...
Tags: Tail, Call Transcript, Earnings, Advertising & Promotion, Games, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Personal Technology, Finance, Seeking Alpha, Glu Mobile Inc.
Earnings calls 2009-05-06