Author name: Lynne Kiesling

Has the Death of the Music Label Started? Depends on What Kind of Label You Mean

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Lynne Kiesling This week is Music Week at KP; we’ll have content on the economics, politics, aesthetics, and culture of music. In part what inspires this week’s focus is some recent new music purchases I’ve made and some of their characteristics. These features indicate some pretty substantial changes in the economics of music creation and …

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That Felt Good!

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Lynne Kiesling Phew, it felt good to write a post like that last one. You’ve probably noticed some self-censoring going on here at KP over the past couple of months. The reason for that is that I was doing some expert testimony analysis on a retail competition issue, and felt the need to hold back …

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Evaluating Electricity “Deregulation” in a Period of Rising Fuel Costs

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Lynne Kiesling Periods of rising costs make it hard to be a market process supporter. Nowhere is this more true than in electric power, where a century of regulator-regulated co-dependency has created a culture of price control. Right now Maryland is the center of this debate, triggered by economic and political motives, including rising natural …

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The Wooly Concept of Sustainability: Gore and Blood in the Wsj

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Lynne Kiesling Today’s Wall Street Journal has a commentary from Al Gore and David Blood that asks the question: when will we start accounting for environmental costs? Gore and Blood begin by invoking the concept of sustainability, and the relationship between capitalism and sustainability. Sadly, they do not bother to define what they mean by …

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Innovation and Its Discontents: Jaffe and Lerner in Wsj

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Lynne Kiesling We’ve seen lots of discussion of how dysfunctional the US patent system is at the moment; from business process patents to laws of nature patents to the recent Research in Motion (Blackberry) lawsuit, we see the pernicious entry barriers that too broad a patent policy can erect. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Adam …

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Is Coke’s Franchising Business Model Obsolete?

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Lynne Kiesling There is a fascinating article in today’s Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) about a lawsuit that Coca-Cola bottlers have brought against Coca-Cola. The issue is Wal-Mart’s request to the company for direct shipment of Powerade to Wal-Mart warehouses. One large bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises (which is responsible for 77% of C-C sales in the …

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Distributed Network Innovation at Mit Medialab

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Lynne Kiesling Today is a dynamism day here at KP, whether it’s marketing or technology or business models. Business Week has an interview with Frank Moss, the new head of MIT’s MediaLab. He points out the importance of several things that I think are crucial for dynamic innovation: entrepreneurship, new models of collaboration and invention, …

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