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...drivers in the world racing full pelt for three days over narrow, twisting public roads. But because of the distances involved in following the race, television coverage of the sport even as recently as five years ago consisted of week-old footage. Since David Richards' company, International Sportsworld Communicators (ISC), bought the TV and commercial rights to the WRC two years ago, bringing the sport to the public has been transformed. Today, television companies using satellite communications produce same-day programs editing together helicopter and trackside shots with on-board video footage that are broadcast to 186 countries. But ISC...
Michael E. Porter, the renowned consultant, author, and Harvard Business School (HBS) professor will direct a new Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), the University announced yesterday...
Porter could not be reached for comment on either the Bangkok deal or the ISC...
...into 2001, landed a six-year network-television contract worth about $400 million annually. The NASCAR organization is still owned by the France family; its public corporation, International Speedway Corp., owns or operates 11 tracks coast to coast, with new venues in Chicago and Kansas City, Kans. Last year ISC had revenues of $440 million, up 47% from...
...ISC's treatment of Mahaffey wasn't illegal. However, experts say it is among the nicer things that happen to naive inventors who rely on any one of the dozen or so major players in the industry. Richard Apley, director of the Independent Inventor Programs for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, says flatly that the majority of companies now advertising these inventor services, which generate about $200 million a year, are scams. "They offer a service of sorts but don't really do what they say they will do," says Apley. Nearly every one of their patent searches comes...