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Have you ever turned down a product-endorsement deal? -Tim Smith, San DiegoThousands, and some products that I love and use. It's just that there is a finite amount of time...
...customer for innovation. We've got to close the sale. You have to part with your hard-earned money. An innovation business model is driven by trial generation and purchase generation and then delightful usage and experience, which results in, in the end, a loyal user of the product or service that we've innovated...
...sure way to stop progress in its tracks. Modern plastic bags are the most environmentally friendly yet: They thinned down a third between 1977 and 1990, and have even started to appear in biodegradable form (at least these compostable bags are exempt from the San Francisco ban). Banning the product removes the incentive to improve it, just as it discourages individuals from educating themselves about their choices. Environmentalists need to reflect upon these long-term consequences before they charge in with sledgehammers to kill flies. Their current mentality—“for your own good?...
...pride of Boston’s beer industry is walking on shards of glass, days after it issued a recall order on as much as a quarter of its bottled beer production. The Boston Beer Company, Inc. issued a recall earlier this week of faulty glass bottles containing their signature brand Samuel Adams beer. “It is roughly 25 percent of our total inventory,” said Seana Phillips of the company’s Investor Relations Office. “Our medical experts think that less than one percent of those bottles actually contain glass...
...debut Pulitzer-winning short story collection “Interpreter of Maladies” and her novel “The Namesake,” Jhumpa Lahiri conceived of the Indian-American family of the 1970s as the product of India and America. These earlier works portrayed intergenerational conflict between Americanized children and their first generation parents, who, while desirous of the educational opportunities life in America afforded, tended to cling to traditional values. But in “Unaccustomed Earth,” Lahiri complicates these relationships. Using a more expansive format for the eight new stories that comprise...