The 201 square mile city of Griffin, Georgia is in Spalding County, midway between Atlanta and Macon. Incorporated in 1843, it lay on the Monroe Railroad north-south line and maintained an important cotton growing industry. Textile manufacturing began in the 1880’s and several firms dominated the market, including the Kincaid Manufacturing Company that became the…
Wim Bastiaanssen is the founder of Water Watch, a consulting company that produces exploitable information on agricultural conditions using information gathered from satellites that is processed through proprietary analytical algorithms in order to measure water consumption and then can be transmitted to on the ground mobile communication devices for exploitation. The company conducts survey work…
JCPenney, the hundred year old mid-range department store chain headquartered in Plano, TX, is searching for its key success factors, once again. CEO Ron Johnson joined the company in June 2011 with a bold plan to eliminate sales and to restructure the company around the Apple store model he developed, while SVP of Retail Operations…
On December 31, 2012 the last print edition of Newsweek magazine hit the newsstands. A print publication for nearly eighty years, Newsweek was sold in 2010 to Barry Diller’s online advertising and media giant, IAC (Interactive Corp), and its online offer, The Daily Beast. Tina Brown became editor of both the Daily Beast and the…
The “grab a deal” offer is almost as ubiquitous as the “win a sweepstake” offer. Email boxes and Facebook accounts fill rapidly with these advertising pitches to market goods and services. The attempt to reach eyeballs through online ads has shifted toward trying to reach pocketbooks through onsite visits. Restaurants, cruises, hotels, physical goods,…
ReadCube simplifies research search and organization for academic writing. The algorithm permits searching across several platforms including Google Scholar and PubMed. Once located, the articles are stored in full-text searchable files that can be annotated and restored. Citation information is parsed so that additional references can be located and read. They can be exported to…
Following on Govindarajan’s field experience as chief innovation consultant to GE in China during the period in which it developed the compact ultrasound machine for use in rural villages where access to medical facilities was difficult, the authors contend that a new field of exploratory strategy research is emerging that deserves theoretical model building and…
Digital entertainment models continue to evolve rapidly, due to technology advances and generational preferences. AlwaysOn, founded in 2003 by Tony Perkins, currently provides information on the top trends in digital media, on-demand computing and greentech industries. Specializing in social networking, the organization runs specialized business events in which it connects physical and online attendees with…
Immigrants represent the majority of NYC taxi drivers. According to Medallion Financial CEO, Andrew Murstein, whose family purchased its first medallions in 1937 at $10 each, today’s corporate medallions are selling for $1.1 M. This business has realized a steady 15% yearly increase since its founding. The company owners realized that the key to maximizing…
James Yu-Shan Liu is the Chief of the Secretariat Office and faculty member in the School of Business’s Department of International Trade at the Ta Hwa Institute of Technology in Taiwan. This case study of the Far-Eastern Department Store (FED) in Taiwan illustrates the potential positive effects of global competition on local offers. The author…