Biz Vision

Here's an interesting business article I came across. It talks about strategies to break away from the competition. It doesn't get it to very much detail but it does enough to make me want to read the book the author is promoting - "Breakout Strategy: Meeting the Challenge of Double Digit Growth" by Sydney Finkelstein, Charles Harvey, and Thomas Lawton.

Site: BusinessWeek
Title: Planning a Breakout

Tuck management prof Sydney Finkelstein talks about his new book on how to leave your competitors in the dust

YouTube is the combination of taking Hollywood, previously the only producer of video-entertainment, giving that ability to millions of people around the world and excellent timing.  By excellent timing I mean launching at a time when the Internet has become a necessity in most households and the bandwidth required for video streaming is no longer a limitation.  I find it fascinating and what Google can add to the combination can make it even more fascinating.  The following article talks about how Google may turn YouTube into a gigantic revenue making machine with the use of advertising...

Feed: Wired News: Top Stories
Title: The YouTube Effect

TV advertising is broken, putting $67 billion up for grabs. Which explains why Google spent a billion and change on an online video startup. By Bob Garfield from Wired magazine.

BusinessWeek publishes MBA rankings for 2006.

Feed: BusinessWeek Online --
Title: The BestB-Schools of 2006

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