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Job Hub: Pixar Animation Studios Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Pixar Animation Studios. Pixar, now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation.

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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. And they’re hardly feel-good indulgences.

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

Harvard Business

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. But linking gender equity to leadership is equally vital. Emma Innocenti/Getty Images. How does something like this happen?

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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When Charismatic Leadership Goes Too Far

Harvard Business

Leadership is changing — fast. But true charismatic leadership is more than just a set of techniques to excite followers. Creativity and productivity decline. First, charismatic leadership is as seductive for the leader as for followers, and the better one is at it, the easier it is to be blind to signs of trouble.

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Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

Harvard Business

Moreover, Hidden Champions have also contributed to the sustainment of the German manufacturing base, and it is in large part thanks to them that nearly a quarter of the German gross domestic product continues to come from manufacturing. Of course, success of individual Hidden Champions is based on their leadership and strategy.

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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. As companies grow and age, many succeed by optimizing for one successful model of growth and profit.

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