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...Over the past decade, Whole Foods has defined and reshaped the industry," says Edward Aaron, analyst at RBC Capital Markets. "They have pronounced the traditional health-food-store format dead and put together a higher-end specialty experience while attracting a much broader customer base...
...some point, it simply won’t make sense to maintain the existing format,” Meyer said a year before he left Harvard. “There is a point where we would simply move to an external model...
...current challenges are.” Discussions about the program began last summer and the proposal was sent out by the Indian government in early September, according to Letts. Since then, two teams from the Kennedy School have traveled to India to present the program and discuss its format with the government. The Kennedy School runs similar programs with governments from other countries including China and Pakistan. In addition, Letts said that many Indian civil servants have attended the Kennedy School’s Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management, which trains “demonstrated leaders...
...finally starting to catch on. But the next logical step--DVDS that carry high-definition (HD) movies--has proved to be a difficult one. Ordinary DVDs can't hold the data required for true HD video, and electronics manufacturers haven't been able to agree on a new DVD format with enough capacity to do the job. Instead, they have broken into two warring camps: the so-called Blu-ray group (established by Sony and endorsed by Philips, Panasonic, Pioneer and Samsung) and the HD DVD Promotion Group (supported by Toshiba, Microsoft and others). So far, that hasn't been...
...format war reminiscent of Betamax vs. VHS, in which the biggest losers were the manufacturers of the defeated format (in that case, Sony) and the consumers who bought the wrong machines. If you have an HDTV and you're dying to watch movies in their full HD splendor, the Toshiba box isn't a bad idea. If you're a game player, you will probably want to hold out for the PlayStation 3 or the Xbox HD DVD drive. If you're the cautious type, you may want to wait for the dust to settle--and the prices to come...