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Creating a Cohesive Team for Corporate Transformation Projects

Harvard Business

Hollywood films have long been made by teams of independent contractors and employees of different production companies brought together for short-term projects. Companies have embraced this model for transformations, with data showing that 45% of the people on these projects are not regular employees.

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Job Hub: Pixar Animation Studios Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Two of its fourteen feature films – “Finding Nemo” and “Toy Story 3” – are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, while an impressive thirteen of the fourteen are in the 50 highest-grossing animated films of all time. billion dollars.

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France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema

MishTalk

RT reports French broadcasting watchdog CSA eager to tax YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion France''s Superior Council of Audiovisual, an independent broadcasting authority, wants to impose taxes on media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion to force them to contribute to financing French culture. billion ($1.8

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

GALLUP CONSULTING INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. GALLUP CONSULTING CULTURE. Performance matters most. Love to learn.

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How Netflix’s Content Strategy Is Reshaping Movie Culture

Harvard Business

” If you’ve seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, that one line probably conjures up memories of Oh yeah, chicka chicka, Ferraris, playing hooky, and dating in high school — all of which feature heavily in the hit coming-of-age film. This is how Blockbuster used to operate, at least when it came to mainstream domestic films.

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France Goes After Actor Salaries; Sunday Shopping "Reform" French Style

MishTalk

A move is underway in France to cut aid to movies if the salaries of the stars is too high a percentage of the cost of production. The Wall Street Journal reports In France, Popular Actors May Pay for Change in Funding for Films. In trade negotiations, the film subsidy has been targeted by the U.S. Effective Jan. million ($1.85

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Product Success Is Not About the Zeitgeist

Harvard Business

My aim here is to explore — and reject — a common explanation for the success of Star Wars, and of businesses, products, and ideas in general. The explanation is that what matters is the relationship between culture and the product at the time it is released. What you need is cultural resonance.