Word: modeling
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...While cash-strapped shoppers might want to start tying their hands behind their backs, retailers should hang signs that say "Feel me." For a subtler approach, the authors single out the Apple Store as a model. Apple openly invites its customers to fidget with its gadgets, and once you start playing with the iPhone, it's awfully hard to leave the place without one. Shu says that at Office Depot, she has seen pencil packages with holes in the plastic. These holes encourage consumers to poke around. (See the best business deals...
...fairway - the city is carving out bike lanes and pedestrian plazas and expanding its parks - the deeper motivation is economic. If New York wants to stay on top, it needs to grow sustainably and efficiently, getting more out of less while improving quality of life. PlaNYC could be a model for megacities from Tehran to Tokyo. "If we can solve these challenges here, we can solve them anywhere," says Ashok Gupta, the air- and energy-program director for the Natural Resources Defense Council...
...York well ahead of any other major metropolis - and certainly the Federal Government - in taking a dead reckoning of the risks of global warming. "They've been quite brave in putting this out there," says Marcia Bystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters. "This is a model plan...
...Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum to listen to Waldorf talk about his experience with the match-making start-up. Waldorf joined the company in August 2000 as a founding investor. The main question Waldorf addressed was a central problem facing Internet entrepreneurs. How can online businesses devise a model that could turn a profit when people are accustomed to free services and online advertising has failed generate substantial revenue? Currently, eHarmony charges $59.95 for a one-month subscription. “It’s not that young people don’t want to pay for services on the Internet...
...want to have a range of practices and skills and a range of artists who would be able to model various modes of art production for our students...