CEOs often complain that the financial markets just don’t get their companies’ strategies. For years I assumed that this was just sour grapes and that capital markets were actually rather good at assessing the quality of corporate strategies. Along with most other academics and the financial community, I reasoned that good strategies should follow the […]
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The Disney Recipe
In a recent interview, Jeffrey Katzenberg described his first day at Disney as the newly appointed head of The Walt Disney Studios. The equally new Disney CEO, Michael Eisner, gave him a simple, unambiguous mandate: fix animation at Disney. Although a veteran in the film business, Katzenberg had no experience with animation and little appetite […]