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Unlocking Potential: Strategies Driving GCC’s Digital & AI Maturity | BCG
20 Dec 2024
GCC organizations are at a turning point—learn how they can bridge digital and AI maturity gaps to compete on the global stage.
Can Blockchain Solve the GenAI Copyright Clash? | BCG
16 Dec 2024
Creators and news outlets are limiting GenAI's content access. Here's how they can collaborate to balance innovation and content protection. Learn more.
How Innovation is Transforming the Future of Education | BCG
16 Dec 2024
To thrive in the digital age, the education sector must embrace bold innovation, disrupting traditional methods to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving world.
Why Telcos' Slow Sustainability Progress Is Risky | BCG
13 Dec 2024
The telecom industry’s efforts to boost its sustainability is stalling. Explore the steps telcos can take to get back on track with this critical goal.
Why Manufacturers Need to Focus on Cost of Sold Goods | BCG
13 Dec 2024
Learn about the five critical areas areas manufactures should address to design a cost of goods sold program that delivers sustainable savings.
The Blueprint for AI-Powered Marketing | BCG
13 Dec 2024
AI can feel overwhelming for marketers. Explore BCG's research and insights to help marketers identify where AI can drive impact and build a roadmap for growth.
The Leader’s Guide to Transforming with AI
13 Dec 2024
Find out how leaders can turn AI into real results by reshaping critical functions, improving efficiency, and driving business transformation.
Fighting Climate Change with Family Forests
13 Dec 2024
BCG is helping the American Forest Foundation scale up a nature-based carbon credit program and deliver one billion tons of climate impact by 2050.
The Inflection Point: Outlook for Land-Based Salmon Farming
12 Dec 2024
Land-based salmon farming is at a turning point: poised to double production by 2024, driven by strong demand, supportive economics, and rising investor confidence.
What Consumers Want from Personalization | BCG
12 Dec 2024
A global BCG survey of 23,000 consumers reveals the benefits and hazards of uniquely customized interactions between brands and individual customers.
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Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
Samuel Slater – textile tycoon or traitor?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Dec 2023
Samuel Slater is a name that holds significant importance in the annals of American industrial history. Often referred to as the ‘Father of the American Factory System’, Slater's contributions played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s industrial landscape.
Underwood Typewriter Company – an icon of the past
By Kiron Kasbekar | 21 Dec 2023
You’ve probably never heard of Underwood typewriters. For the company folded up in 1963 – 60 years ago. You may not even have seen and handled a typewriter, unless someone in your family owned one.
The rise and fall of Chrysler
By Kiron Kasbekar | 16 Dec 2023
A century ago, the American automobile industry was more crowded than a vegetable market on a Sunday morning, with such a wide variety of stuff on sale that buyers were spoilt for choice. Buyers could pick and choose, bargain, pay up and drive out with the newly purchased vehicle.
TRW – the tide turned
By Kiron Kasbekar | 13 Dec 2023
There used to be an American company called Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. This company, which was a global supplier of automotive systems, modules, and components to car and truck manufacturers, started small, as most companies do. Then, as the automotive industry grew bigger, so did TRW.
The rise and fall of Nokia
By Aniket Gupta | 07 Dec 2023
My interest is stories about dominant companies that failed all of a sudden. These companies were once etched into people’s minds but have since become a symbol of nostalgia. One such company, which was the biggest in its industry before it failed catastrophically, is Nokia.
Yahoo!: The first king of the internet
By Aniket Gupta | 01 Dec 2023
The year is 1994. You go to the internet to search for a particular website, but there is no Google that could be used to search your desired website. What do you do? The answer is that you use Yahoo.