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...investment has already paid off with a trophy: Corinthians won Brazil's professional-soccer-league championship for the first time in six years. But Joorabchian's strategy has produced more than a trophy. He may well have established a new business model that could rescue pro soccer in Brazil, the cradle of superstars like Pelé and Ronaldinho--which has been sinking under corruption, violence, archaic management and a hemorrhaging of talent to Europe and Asia. "You pick a company because you believe it's undervalued," Joorabchian told TIME. "We believe Brazilian football as a whole is undervalued...
...afford to stock anything that won't sell in volume. But websites like MySpace or Netflix offer an endless array of obscure products, allowing users to forage successfully for Japanese ceramics or old-time bluegrass as easily as they might find the latest John Grisham book. This business model is known as the LONG TAIL THE ENTERTAINERS The song remains the same, but the way we listen to it is changing. The movie, music, book and video-game industries have all embraced the Internet ? BitTorrent This efficient way of transmitting large files can make anyone a movie distributor...
...pair will be the focus of opposing squads, they and their coach caution against viewing themselves as an inside-outside duo. The big man-little man combinations like Shaq-Wade that have become a generic recipe for success at the NBA level won’t be the model for this team. “It’s not just two guys,” coach Tommy Amaker says. “I’m more comfortable saying we need multiple players to contribute and fill those holes [left by Goffredo and Cusworth...
Mathematician Benedict H. Gross ’71 drives an early-model hybrid, a 2001 Honda Insight. (“It’s aerodynamic and made of plastic,” the former dean of the College says. “They only made a couple hundred...
...rated R version.RR: Tennessee Williams is said to have hated the 1958 film version of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” How much would he hate your version?NJ: I’d say probably even more because we told every actor to model themselves after Elizabeth Taylor.RR: If you could be named after a state, like Tennessee, what would you choose?AR: Alaska, because recently I was told that I was cold as ice.NJ: Idaho. I-da-ho.RR: In the play, basically the entire cast is lying to Big Daddy about his health. What?...