David A Fields

MARCH 16, 2016

Successful, independent consultants know the same thing (about consulting, not films). At a minimum they need a director of photography to run the camera, a sound person, a lighting person/gaffer (I’ve always wanted to use the word gaffer in a blog), plus a production assistant. Who are those people? My first swing at […].

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David A Fields

JANUARY 14, 2015

Last week, an expertly trained professional gently removed the thin film of grime and buffed some new-age, uber protective coating onto my sedan. How you handle the situation as a consultant makes all the difference. For instance, one of life’s little pleasures is a freshly detailed car.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 22, 2022

Consider Kodak, a company famous for its photographic film products. It persisted so much with its film-based business model that it failed to appreciate the opportunities and threats of digital photography, a technology that the company itself invented in 1975.

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Harvard Business

JULY 16, 2019

Research shows that several strategies drive this success; they include bringing in different types of talent while also maintaining a stable core creative team then working together to challenge the superhero action-film formula. And, Harrison argues, leaders in other industries and functions can easily apply them to their own businesses.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

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. Interview Tips & Tricks.

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The Source

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Consultants, much like movie producers, are often guilty of trying to chase that “next big thing”.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

She had launched her career 12 years earlier with no connections — she just picked up a camera and started making small-budget films, including one she financed out of her own savings account. She achieved a big breakthrough with Selma , the first film directed by an African American woman to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2021

Researchers analyzed film projects developed by Harvey Weinstein’s former collaborators after the movement began.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

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.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Some teams, such as film crews and SWAT teams, face surprises all the time. When the power goes out at a filming location, film crews figure out how to resume shooting as soon as possible. In the film industry, this knowledge comes from how people progress through their careers. How do they do it?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

An obvious solution is product placement, a company paying for its product to be featured prominently in a film or television program as a form of advertising. Product placement can also lower audiences’ evaluations of the focal entertainment product (the film or the show), as recently demonstrated by Andre Marchand and colleagues.

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MishTalk

JUNE 7, 2014

My oldest son is studying film-making in one of Europe''s newest and most modern film schools, located right here in Tallinn, for 3,400 EUR total per year. Before he enrolled last fall, we did some research about his different options in different countries. So why should one study in the USA at all?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Yet, it tried to sell its digital cameras using the same business model as its film-based cameras – by aiming to make high margins on instant film sales. Believing that users would want hard copies, they added digital technology to instant cameras, instead of creating a new product not requiring film.

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Consultant Ninja

MAY 7, 2009

Films and radios, magazines, books levelled down to a sort of paste pudding norm, do you follow me?" "I Speed up the film, Montag, quick. "Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. I think so."

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

To answer these questions my student Lu Liu and I along with other collaborators studied the careers of about 30,000 scientists, artists, and film directors. We also found that hot streaks usually last for short periods: For artists and film directors, it’s about five years; for scientists, four.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Star Wars fans are notorious for their psychological ownership of a film franchise they know intimately. The general resentment towards the film showed at the box office; the movie’s sales fell about $200 million short of several Wall Street analysts’ predictions.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 13, 2014

The Wall Street Journal reports In France, Popular Actors May Pay for Change in Funding for Films. 1, the Centre National du Cinéma, the government agency that funds film production, will shun films in which the pay to the star actors exceeds a certain percentage of production costs. Effective Jan. million ($1.85

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In the last week, film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment — which many have described as an open secret in Hollywood — have exploded onto the pages of the New York Times. Emma Innocenti/Getty Images. The New Yorker documents even more disturbing accusations of rape and assault.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2018

You can see this at work at Pixar, which was originally a technology company that began shooting short films to demonstrate the capabilities of its original product, animation software. However, another reason is because it frees up time to allow for more experimentation. That’s the hard part.”

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Henry DeVries

AUGUST 22, 2019

Just like Hollywood films grab you from the get go. “The first thirty seconds of your presentation needs to arouse interest in your subject,” says speech coach Patricia Fripp.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 25, 2023

Erin shares her journey from a big corporate law firm to working in the film business in LA and how her experiences led her to focus on helping business owners understand and capitalize on their intellectual property.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir celebrate Academy Awards week by discussing two of their favorite nominations: the film “Parasite” and the documentary “American Factory.”

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BCG

JUNE 27, 2016

While many of the headline speakers at Cannes hailed from the creative communities of film, TV, and, of course, advertising, much of the festival’s real action took place around the booths of tech leaders such as Google, Facebook, and Tencent.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 8, 2020

And once you get that clear, this is how you know you have enough clarity on your ideal client: If you were going to film a movie about your ideal client and you were the, let's say you were going to be the movie director.take the movie director test.

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On the Brink Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It has been one of discovering himself, what really matters, and how, from this new-found purpose, he has emerged as an author, film director, screenwriter, public speaker.and an inspiration. Frank is a true gem.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2018

In our research, originally published in Administrative Science Quarterly , we compared two contrasting production settings: film sets and a semiconductor equipment manufacturing firm. In both situations we found plentiful evidence of bureaucracy.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 28, 2013

In a report this week, the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) says that video-sharing websites should be subject to a tax that helps finance the production of French films and TV shows. Subsidies For Films No One Watches Forbes has some interesting comments as well. France’s audiovisual regulator thinks so. billion ($1.8

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Harvard Business

JULY 15, 2016

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. The next explanation is that Kodak mismanaged its investment in digital cameras, overshooting the market by trying to match performance of traditional film rather than embrace the simplicity of digital.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

She gives examples from the film industry to show how CEOs have put the process to work. Jennifer Riel, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, presents a model way to solve problems: integrative thinking. It’s taking the best from two inadequate options to come up with a successful solution.

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Simon Associates

JANUARY 28, 2020

And once again, women have been largely (and very noticeably) snubbed by the film industry. Sidelining women in film is a recurring pattern, not a one-off. Once again, it’s awards season in Hollywood. Bigelow is the only one woman who’s ever won, and no woman of color has ever even been nominated.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Kelly Collins-Lintz – actress of both film and movies, blogger, writer, momager (her kids are also in the acting biz on shows like Bosch, the Walking Dead, and Under the Dome) says “listening to your gut is the best way to create your own path to success,” and this woman knows what she is talking about! Betsy: Wow.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

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.). Between the three acquisitions plus its own Walt Disney Animation and Walt Disney Pictures, Disney has built a studio with five film brands. By contrast, Warner Bros.’

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The Source

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

If we want a good example of where orchestration works brilliantly, it’s the film industry, where the full-service studios of Hollywood’s golden era, have given way to a much more fragmented environment in which the input of hundreds of highly-specialised firms is ‘orchestrated’ by a single production team.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

The latter has triumphantly referred to the result as Britain’s “ independence day ,” possibly an allusion to a rousing speech in the Hollywood Sci-Fi film of the same name that featured very scary aliens.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Arriving at LSE, we were met with bad news: the film club was in our room. Half the plane was empty so we could stretch out! Jenny Rae was very happy to be at LSE, although it was blustery and typically London – all rainy and cold. Our host forgot that he had booked a different room to fit more people due to the high level of interest.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

Although they developed digital photographic technology, too many people in the company focused on the core organizational competence of film. Instead of seeing digital cameras as a new way to execute on the organizational purpose of capturing “Kodak moments,” they hewed to their existing, film-centric strategy.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 24, 2013

They thought that what would ensure their future was better fidelity film. And without a doubt, they delivered on the promise of ever better film stock, with all the things a professional photographer could hope for. Along the way, though, the company made the mistake of misdefining quality.

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