The 180-member National Sod House Society, located in Holdrege, Nebraska, sponsors field trips to sod houses, as well as model-building and essay-writing by local youngsters.
The pre-2000 model for building a biotech company was simple.
Taking a page from Apple's playbook, Dell is hiring designers as it moves away from its old model of building custom-made computers and begins bypassing traditional retail outlets in order to sell its machines directly to customers.
TellMe has opted for an advertising-supported business model, but also intends to charge e-commerce sites for building and maintaining their voice services and it wants to take a cut on every purchase that is made through its system.
To celebrate the design, it created a full-size model of part of this open space in the massive hangar-like building where parts of the ship were being built in Finland.
FORBES: Royal Caribbean's CEO Exemplifies How to Leverage Milestones
"I think the range of science questions that are there, and the methodologies and types of vehicle that we use to address that science, is going to follow very much the Mars model - we'll have one mission building on the success of another and exploring different questions, " he told BBC News.
To produce an image, you need to start off by building a life-like model, no mean feat with something as intricate as a fly or an ant.
Led by Steve Brill, a journalist and entrepreneur who started Court TV, and Gordon Crovitz, the former Wall Street Journal publisher, Journalism Online is building an iTunes-like model for micropayments of media content.
Aleksander Popel and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are building a model of the micro-vasculature to get a better understanding of how molecules and cells interact in these narrow channels where physical experiments are hard to perform.
The miniature building began as a detailed 3-D software rendering before the physical model was built to iron out all the intricacies of connecting the units in the full-scale building.
FORBES: Meet The Startup Making Snap-Together Office Buildings, Schools And 7-Elevens
The acquisition was not so much for Compaq's PC business-- Dell Computer 's (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) relentless cost-cutting model has taken out most of its competitors' profits there--but in the hope of building a consulting business, particularly in managed services, that could complement HP's highly profitable printing business.
Essentially, the company's entire business model was based on its exit strategy--not on building a sustainable, profitable business.
AeroVironment has worked on some strange projects over the years, including building a solar-powered airplane and a working model of a Quetzalcoatlus, a giant flying dinosaur, for an IMAX movie.
FORBES: AeroVironment Will Build A Filling Station In Your Garage
Hitachi, in flat-panel TV business, reduce fixed costs through the second half of fiscal 2009 from fiscal 2007, the reduction of overseas operations, including measures to improve profitability through the use of procurement, building a business model that specializes in technology management with low-risk differentiated has been working on.
The building serves as the model for everything from seafood restaurants to single-family homes to government offices in Guangzhou, Wuxi, Shanghai, Wenling and Nanjing.
In the MeXvi model, the client participates in building his or her own home to high-quality standards under an affordable, versatile, fast and safe patented construction system.
To sell the Baccarat Residences, a 50-story glass condominium tower under construction across from the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, a model set up in the building's showroom includes striking materials like lacquered ziricote-wood walls and a crackled bronze sculptural wall embedded with tiny pieces of glass made by a British artist.
The laser beams on the Tele Atlas vans scan each building on the road thousands of times, creating a three-dimensional model of the neighborhood that, when matched to photos from the high-resolution cameras, can be used to re-create a realistic cityscape.
"Our country has made such admirable strides in nation-building over the decades that few, if any, would advocate implanting a Western model in China - there's simply no market for it, " China Daily says.
应用推荐