Hints and tips:
...There’s an allegation of tying the buy box [ie, better placement on a product order page] to Amazon fulfilment services....
...Click-and-collect and same-day delivery services are becoming a basic expectation of shoppers, said Randy Burt, a partner in the consumer and retail practice of consulting firm AT Kearney....
...Letter in response to this column: The tick-box culture has thwarted dialogue / From Tom Brown, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics, UK...
...“We have integrated Netflix with operators like Orange, Vodafone, Liberty Global and BT, signed a deal with Telenor to bring Netflix to their box....
...Japanese brain drain risk Corporate Japan could face an exodus of scientific talent as companies push for a more rigid contract with employees under the country’s intellectual property laws, Nobel Prize...
...Another leading premium brand, Burt’s Bees, is made by Clorox, best known for household cleaning products including bleach (the company name is a portmanteau of chlorine and sodium hydroxide)....
...In part, that is because over the past 15 years companies have found rigid strategic frameworks hard to adapt to a fast-changing environment....
...Would you want to join a hierarchical company where rules are established and rigid and your voice is one of thousands, or a dynamic company with open doors where you are involved in setting the standards...
...One of his main gripes is that rigid labour laws on dismissal and wages are not conducive to start-ups, and he is leading a legal action against them (see box)....
...advisable to cross him - Cluer in person comes with all the right accoutrements: the linen suits, Paul Smith glasses, Hollywood-style tan, teeth from central casting, gold lighter and the ever-present box...
...A lack of change prompts shareholders to press the Securities and Exchange Commission or Congress for action, and after a big battle companies are left with rigid and costly rules imposed....
...Japanese groups, with their closed corporate culture, rigid labour practices, and reliance on Japanese-speaking staff, have traditionally been wary of hiring foreigners, except at overseas subsidiaries....
...But he is stiff, rigid and so tightly wound he looks ready to explode....
...This bizarre architectural vision, part of the “politics of dignity”, was conceived to boost the pride of Mayawati’s core constituents – those at the bottom of Hinduism’s rigid caste system, once known as...
...You couldn’t really do much with your Friendster page beyond what the rigid template allowed you to do, so people began to devise new ways of saying something about themselves....
...Holding on to the creative talents behind Pixar’s unbroken string of box-office hits will also be vital....
...Likewise, box office and DVD sales at the Hollywood studio, theme park sales and overseas channel deals all compensate for volatile advertising in network television....
...Fifteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has emerged as the 10th largest box office market....
...By comparison, revenues at the US box office grew only modestly to $9.54bn....
...Today, sales from DVDs are more than twice as large as box office receipts, helping to finance new productions and underpinning studio profits....
...The animated film, based on the classic children's book, has broken box office records for Imax in spite of its muted performance in ordinary cinemas....
..."VUE was exactly the opposite, with box office and DVDs. Put together we are 50-50, so it's a spread of risk. We were advertising-oriented and now it's more comfortable."...
...In the US, both films have retained the top box office slots over the vital Thanksgiving holiday weekend....
...There is widespread concern that movie piracy could erode DVD sales, currently more valuable than box office revenues to Hollywood....
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