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Using M&A to Increase Your Capacity for Growth

Harvard Business

In today’s fast-changing, unpredictable environments, companies must simultaneously exploit existing profitable business models to run their core business and also explore new products, markets, and models to drive growth. of your market cap to about 25%—Pixar was about 10% of Disney. My philosophy is exactly the opposite.

Film 28
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Aging Societies Should Make More of Mentorship

Harvard Business

The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Film 37
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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

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. The firm at large is considered an international leader in public opinion polling, market research and management consulting.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

I worked with them for about 6 months basically as an associate producer doing different things, and then that translated into a job as a full-time producer at Inertia Films where I’m at today. So depending on your tax status, maybe you are an independent contractor so you can call it Garrett Films, or whatever you want to.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. The fall can come quickly.

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Make the Force Be With You - Henman Performance

Henman Performance Executive

The incredible success of the first movie, which received seven Oscars and earned nearly $800 million worldwide, began with brilliant marketing of a groundbreaking thought: Let’s create a revolutionary movie-watching experience, complete with never-before-seen special effects. Talent Management. This is the stuff of progeny greatness.

Film 28
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Thirty years of projects

Seth Godin Blog

Now, it''s so much easier to go straight to market that we need to find our own internal compass, something to replace the external one we all used to depend upon. We did this at the same time we built The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook. I launched Zoomtone records as an experiment with some passionate and talented musicians.