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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

Disney’s existing contract to distribute Pixar films was slated to end in 2006 and Pixar had announced two years earlier it would not renew the arrangement.). Iger used the Pixar and Marvel purchases to convince George Lucas to sell them Lucasfilm (for about $4 billion) in 2012. It was a bold push towards the future.

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Find Your Moment of Obligation

Harvard Business Review

This conversation became a central part of the film Socheata created about her family. This film later led Socheata to found an organization that shares stories of the genocide to support the healing process of generations of surviving Cambodians and Cambodian-Americans. "We buried your aunt near here after she died," he uttered.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. A century ago Leica brought to market the first lightweight camera, whose most distinctive feature was the quality of its lens, allowing small film images to be blown up without losing much resolution.

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What Gamers Can Teach Us About Fraud

Harvard Business Review

Valve Corporation's game platform, Steam , developed an anti-cheat solution in 2006 after it detected 10,000 cheating attempts in a single week. As of 2012, it had terminated more than 1.5 For example, how big is the problem of cheating in online games? million accounts within the 60 games running on Steam.