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Narrative Design & World-Building: USC Media Lab • Alex McDowell
61 | Future-Proofing Strategy: World-Building Over Product Cycles • USC Media Lab
Hospitality: Practice Hospitality • Bashar Wali
59 | Transactional vs. Relational Capital: Engineering Customer Loyalty • Practice Hospitality
Creativity Science: UConn • James Kaufman
58 | Risk Capital Strategy: Why Failure Suppression Kills Innovation • UConn
Entertainment & Media: Veep / Seinfeld • David Mandel
54 | Distribution Shifts: Business Model Disruption Destroys Moats • Seinfeld / Veep
Advanced Manufacturing: Alene Candles • Rodney Harl
52 | Value Chain Ascension: Repositioning Low-Margin Manufacturing • Alene Candles
Hospitality: bartaco • Anthony Valletta
50 | Product Commoditization: Defending Margin Through Experience • bartaco
Synthesis Episode: UnNatural Signals • Nic Encina
46 | Stress-Testing Systems: Evolutionary Adaptation Signals • Nic Encina
Journalism: The New York Times • Carl Zimmer
44 | Narrative Framing: Storytelling as an Organizational OS • New York Times
Home Entertainment: Blockbuster • Jim Keyes
26 | Strategic Vulnerability: Speed & Convenience vs. Scale • Blockbuster
Synthesis Episode: UnNatural Signals • Nic Encina
25 | Macro Signals & Structural Shifts Across Legacy Industries • Nic Encina
Opera: Boston Symphony Orchestra • Meredith Hansen
24 | High-Stakes Performance: Operationalizing Stress Resilience • Opera Star
Hospitality: La Padrona • Eric Papachristos
06 | Defending Margins in Commoditized Markets via Human Experience • La Padrona
Gaming: Xbox / PlayStation • Yohan Sengamalay
04 | Overcoming Executive Myopia Through Customer Codesign • Xbox / PlayStation
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