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Obituary: Harrison ("Buzz") Price, 1921-2010
Remembering Walt Disney’s favorite research economist
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Playdom Joins the Magic Kingdom for $563 Million
Disney's deal for the two-and-a-half year old company is the richest ever in the fledgling but fast-growing social gaming market.
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How to Create a Leadership Development Program
Looking to identify future leaders within your ranks? If you do it right, it could also boost morale, creativity, and spark the transfer of good ideas.
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How Pixar Cheated Death
Pixar's a great success story, but it's worth remembering how close Steve Jobs & Co. came to an unhappy ending.
Read moreRecent Articles about The Walt Disney Company
Turning Threats Into Opportunities and a New Direction
Has your company done a S.W.O.T. analysis? That's a Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats checklist of internal and external factors affecting yo... Read more
No One Asked Me But...
Disney's executive search is flawed. Disney just announced it was hiring a search firm to look for Michael Eisner's replacement...and that ... Read more
Why Disney and AT
Newspaper headlines are filled with reports describing the demise of dot-com firms. The rapid reversal of fortunes, however, has not been limited to pure-... Read more
Copying Web Design: How Much Is Too Much?
Jonathan Hudis, chairman of the American Intellectual Property Association, discusses stepping over the fine line of trademark infringement in Web site design. Read more
Why Disney and AT
Newspaper headlines are filled with reports describing the demise of dot-com firms. The rapid reversal of fortunes, however, has not been limited to pure-... Read more
Hard-Time Start-Ups
Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers a list of some of today's best-known companies that started in the Great Depression. Read more
The Wonderful World of Eisner?
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on Tuesday confirmed plans to host his own Read more
Hollywood Lures High School Animators with Sweet Deals
An innovative training program in a California high school is churning out graduates who command high salaries. Read more
Licensing: Rent a Brand
The president of bird-feeder company that negotiated a license deal with Disney explains why it was a success. Read more
Upstarts: New-Biz Watch
A look at Mark Begelman's MARS, a music and recording superstore that encourages customers to touch the merchandise, plus four shorter articles about the ret... Read more
Swapping Employees; The 10 Best Commencement Speeches
Swap 'em if you got 'em. Today's Chicago Tribune... Read more
Is This Any Way to Run a Family?
Hoping to inspire, to teach responsibility and instill determination, Tom Parsons decided to start a business with his 15-year-old son. It seemed like a good... Read more
Mickey Mouse Needs to Eat His Vegetables
"I write a column about small business. A question I often get is, 'What's the biggest problem facing a small business?' ... My answer always surprises pe... Read more
Saving Money in the Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (and friends) are the big draws as families all over North America make room for Orlando in their summer vacation plans. The ki... Read more
Science Tells Us Which Online Ads Work
A new Disney research lab here in Austin, Texas just performed a study on co... Read more
How I Did It: Stan Lee of Marvel Comics
The creator of Spider-Man, the Hulk, and the X-Men talks about how he has stayed creative for more than 60 years. Read more
Leadership: Building Companies to Last
A study of companies that shows certain traits in visionary companies suggest basic rules for success. Read more
Book Value: So You Say People Are Your Most Important Asset
According to some recent books, thinking of people as just another asset is a mistake. Plus: What Tim Keyes of Aim Technologies reads. Read more
Defying Gravity
Some of America's iconic companies took flight in gloomy times. Read more
Family Fare
It was all that Elvin Feltner needed to hear. Walt Disney Pictures was beginning to expand beyond the G rating of family films and into the spicier PG an... Read more
How I Did It: Blaine Kern, Chairman, Blaine Kern Studios
This is a job for Mr. Mardi Gras. Read more
Upstarts: New-Biz Watch
A look at how Toby Lenk founded eToys.com, an online toy retailer that's taking lessons from Amazon.com. Plus, several shorter articles about the unlikely pr... Read more
Alec Baldwin's Twitter Strategy: Lose Friends and Alienate People
The actor again makes himself look like a jerk on social media. Two simple questions could have saved him. Read more
Book Of The Month
Fiascos on the scale of William H. Millard's ComputerLand (see main story) are rare. But how many businesses are plagued with equally troubled CEOs? Plen... Read more
Disney Taps Tapulous
The two-year-old start-up began life buying a popular game from the underworld of then-illicit apps. Read more
The Big Read
New business information on children's bookstores. Read more
When The Magic Goes
The adoring crowd of 300 engineers executives, and reporters fell silent. They had gathered this Friday night in the bright new site of Sente Technologies... Read more
How To Raise Money Quickly; The Millionaires of the App World
The $100 million Facebook app . There's been much debate of late about business plans based on Read more
Diversity: Gays in the Workplace
Two books are reviewed that examine the issues surrounding homophobia in the workplace. Read more
Return of Giants
Is Hollywood edging out small companies and returning to the studio-dominated days of yesteryear? Read more
Setting the Stage
Jim Henson's son Brian writes about how he and his siblings filled his famous father's shoes in the family business. Read more
Eight Keys to Creating a Customer Service Culture
Management must make the measurement of service quality and feedback from the customer a basic part of everyone's work experience. This information ... Read more
Star Boards -- Nothing but Star Boards
Operating under the theory that celebrities are money magnets, America's largest companies have long stocked their boardrooms with a ration of star power.... Read more
Steal This Strategy
How one company grows and prospers by taking the best ideas from big companies. Read more
Look Ma--No Bankers
Manufacturer of candy boxes learns why banks take a dim of limited partnerships. Read more
About Face on Facebook
Earlier this month, I commented on a previous posting of mine that the mixing of personal and professional life that seems to happen on Facebook leaves me... Read more
Upstarts: Mompreneurs
Motherhood is a decidedly creative process-and in more than just the biological way. Here's a sampling of the numerous start-up ideas it has given birth to, ... Read more
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