A well-known case study by Harvard Business Review documents how Dow Corning elected to disrupt its own silicon business rather than allow competitors to steal market share by offering lower price points. The story is worth retelling because Dow Corning’s business model innovation keeps evolving to meet the needs of price-driven customer segments. As the [...]

Here’s the situation: Just sold my Wisconsin home, my car in Wisconsin is about to be sold and I’ve yet to purchase a new one in my new home state. So I’ll lack car insurance. I don’t want to pay my rental car company’s expensive insurance rates. My Wisconsin insurer can’t help me – they [...]

Imagine being a 4h grade teacher with a class of 25 students with widely different levels of math aptitude and competency. How do you challenge the most adept students? How do you help the laggards without boring the stars to tears? The only practical option seems to be to teach to the middle. That it, [...]