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Favorite childhood toy: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
...made possible a host of portable devices; in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. In 1955, at Union Carbide's Eveready lab, the chemical engineer was asked to make a small battery that would last for more than a few minutes. He was quite successful: at a demonstration for company executives, one toy car, equipped with an older battery, quickly slowed to a halt while another, powered with his now standard alkaline battery, raced around and around the cafeteria. Urry, according to his son Michael, was a modest man who "took special pride around Christmas, when there was a rush for batteries...
Every company pays lip service to customer service, but anyone who has endured an airline's phone-support hell or talked to a clueless sales clerk in an electronics store knows the truth. In many cases, the customer comes dead last. A company like Toys "R" Us may blame Wal-Mart for destroying its core toy business, but "[nobody's] customers just walk away; they will put up with a lot of stuff," says business strategist Fred Wiersema. "By the time they switch, they are really...
...parents who have dared to venture into a Toys "R" Us, there has been plenty to complain about: outdated, badly stocked stores staffed by well-meaning but generally unhelpful employees. Even Ursula Moran, vice president for investor relations, admits that over the past decade, as it embarked on international expansion and the launch of Babies "R" Us, "the company was not focused [enough] on the U.S. toy business. We thought we had won, that we were...
Fortunately for Bird, it is being treated as such, but that is due as much to the producers of the project as to the buzz around the project itself; since Toy Story, Pixar has rightfully earned the attention and respect of serious film critics, appealing to thumbs-uppers and thumbsuckers alike. The studio’s well-crafted canon, which also includes Monsters, Inc. and last year’s instant classic Finding Nemo, has had a profound influence on the world of animated film, pushing traditional two-dimensional animation into commercial obsolescence...