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...could disrupt LCD's emergence just as easily as LCD has begun to supplant cathode-ray tubes. Even against existing technologies, Sharp faces a formidable battle. Junzo Masuda, director of iSuppli, a market-research firm in Kyoto, says the real test is how Sharp's big-screen TVs ultimately fare against plasma display panels (PDPs), the dominant type of large-screen, flat-panel displays. Sharp may have better technology, but Masuda wonders whether the company can reduce costs enough to defeat the makers of PDP sets, which are significantly cheaper. "There is a real price battle going on," says Masuda...
While airlines are often their own worst enemy, by doing things like thwarting pension reform or holding out on needed fare increases, they can make progress with some enlightened government guidance. Let's forget the handout approach, and let them fight it out in a truly deregulated marketplace...
...we’d like to tip our hats to the folks at HUDS who claimed that they would renovate all of Harvard’s dining halls in just a few short years. People might grumble about dining hall fare, but no one can complain about the outcome of these recent and laudable efforts to improve the student experience...
...joke in the airline business is that to make a million bucks, you have to start with ten million. In a business with five percent margins even in good years, the combination of bloated personnel costs, poor labor-management relations, high fuel prices and the rise of pesky low-fare, good-service airlines like Southwest have all helped drive the old legacy carriers into the red. Now two of them, Delta and Northwest, have declared bankruptcy; another, much smaller airline, Virginia-based Independence Air, may soon join them. Couple that with two other flyers, United and U.S. Airways, which have...
...Body Works in February 2003, same-store sales were skidding, having dropped 3% in 2002 and 11% the year before. Former CEO Beth Pritchard built the chain from nothing to 1,600 stores and $1.8 billion in revenue in just 10 years, but consumers were growing tired of folksy fare like Juniper Breeze shampoo gift baskets and were starting to find palatable alternatives in drugstores and discount chains, which had begun an upscale lurch of their own. Fiske came in, began renovating stores from pine-grove country to white-walled mod (a few hundred stores left to go) and started...