A Brooklyn real estate developer, Ratner bought the Nets to leverage the Atlantic Yards project and stripped the team for the move.
The DreamWorks team has countered that Mr. Spielberg has extraordinary leverage over the projects: by declaring himself attached creatively to any of 100 or so potential films, he triggers contractual provisions that entitle him to rich payments and make him something close to a 50-50 partner in the enterprise.
Out of its initial research came Startup Compass: A benchmarking tool that leverages the research project's data to enable startups and their founders to evaluate their progress compared to others in their space and help them make more informed product and business decisions by "utilizing a data-driven feedback loop," according to its mission statement.
Naturally, Google is able to leverage the work of projects like this for its own sites, since speed is a huge concern of CEO Larry Page for its existing and future products.
Ultimately, a superior outcome is achieved through leveraging individual strengths across the project team to reach a unified goal.
The project leverages ubiquitous cellphones, and partners with mobile operators and the Ugandan National Meteorological Authority to provide low-cost, on-demand access to weather alerts to more than 16 million Ugandan cellphone users.
The project leverages existing public-academic collaborations to implement a catchment-based approach to early detection.
Through web browser interfaces and leveraging social-networking technologies, the project website will ask the scientific community to analyze, critique and edit the models in an effort to produce confidence-voted community consensus models and to iteratively improve the recipes.
It's also smart to leverage two of the projects that many would agree have been done well so far: the Zune interface and Xbox Live.
Russia had delayed work on Bushehr before, with Russian officials often appearing to use the project as leverage in negotiations with Iran's leaders.
The project will leverage on the geographical and resource advantages of Jilin City to secure a safe, reliable and sustainable supply of pork for the Singapore market," said Poon Choon Liang, chief operating officer of Singapore Food Industries.
