Take a look at Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) and Gateway's iMac knockoffs, introduced last year, for a case-study in Apple's influence.
I've become a case-study in VC fossilization, a Luddite one-liner, like Ken Olsen and the PC.
Take a look at Dell and Gateway's iMac knockoffs, introduced last year, for a case-study in Apple's influence.
And the police force, as a report by McKinsey, a consultancy, has found, is a case-study in poor management.
Far from seeing Ireland as a case-study in what not to do, the troubled Mediterranean members of the euro would do well to learn from it.
First, it is a retrospective case-control study and is therefore susceptible to reporting bias, meaning that people with ALS may report their coffee consumption differently from controls.
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Chemistry is vital but compatibility is the core of a successful relationship, and when relationships have both it sets the stage for enduring partnerships that create some case-study results.
Yet Apple is oddly absent among the companies described in each chapter-long case study.
We published an in-depth case study of their approach a few months ago.
Instead, when working alone you can treat the assignment as a theoretical exercise, like a B-school case study to turn in to the professor.
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On the bigger stage, in the fashion business, Zara is a b-school case study in how to copy catwalk design and to get them into the shop, pronto.
Los Angeles as a long-term case study in one of the few cities principally developed after the invention of the automobile reveals an even more depressing underside to the data.
For the last decade, Perry has refined the Lone Star State into a case study for pro-growth, free-market economics.
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His lawyers said they want the Swiss authorities to know about the actions of the now-deceased judge in the case, specifically his intent to treat a 90-day diagnostic study in prison as Polanski's entire punishment.
What happened next is regarded as business folklore and should be a case study at every self-respecting management school.
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Actually, the G-wagen is an interesting case study in industrial design.
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Blanco plans to turn the case study into a Web-based tool to help other companies calculate and potentially reduce the energy consumption of products moved over long distances by multiple means of transport.
How a public school district that's 57 percent black, including Haitian, and 29 percent Hispanic, came to be governed by ultra-Orthodox Jews is a case study in changing demographics and the power of democracy.
It's not going to set any records for thinness or price, but laptops like this one are a big part of the reason the Round Rock, Texas-based Dell is turning in better numbers lately, and the M1330 could be a case study on how to hit a sweet spot in a fast-moving market.
That makes them see Cyprus not as a failure of the Euro-experiment, but a fascinating case study for policies.
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Reinhardt co-authored a Harvard Business School case study of Patagonia in 2010.
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They cite one case study in which a 10-year-old girl, who had been given a robot doll for several weeks, reported that "now that she's played with me a lot more, she really knows me".
Sarasvathy met personally with all of her subjects, presenting each with a case study about a hypothetical start-up and 10 decisions that the founder of such a company would have to make in building the venture.
It also contains a case study about the first e-waste day in Cook Islands, and describes activities for the news room to carry out in order to increase the understanding of the issue and to explore different story ideas.
Not only does the play work, but this production, directed by David Russell, is a case study in how to stage punch-line humor.
Sayers, Richard: Principles of awareness-raising: Information literacy, a case study .
In addition, case-control studies, such as the large INTERHEART study conducted in 52 countries, have provided valuable information.
Richard Smith , an editor at the British Medical Journal (BMJ), writes of a case in which his journal published a study on Schering-Plough 's (nyse: SGP - news - people) drug, flutamide.
Others say the study sample sizes -- about 100 kids in each case -- may be too small to support sweeping conclusions.
Like much of the previous research on coffee, the study was based on survey data -- in this case, a single questionnaire distributed in the mid-1990s -- that may provide an incomplete picture of the participants' overall health and lifestyle.
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