Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed building a skyscraper hotel in the shape of Mickey. But much of the time Eisner is only trying to provoke his subordinates into even better notions. "My primary interest is ideas," says Eisner. "The rest is kind of housekeeping to me. I understand business, but it's the product that has traditionally got me out of economic trouble...
...Film Historian Lewis Jacobs saluted Walt Disney as the "virtuoso of the film medium." Twenty years later, this Hollywood Paderewski was playing mostly Muzak. His studio's artistic growth had been stunted, by both the | demand for new product in two mediums and the creeping conservatism that afflicts almost any burgeoning corporation. Yet Disney was always a visionary entrepreneur; he still had magic to do. In the 1950s Disney made three business decisions that would sustain his company until the Eisner years. Decades later, they would profoundly affect the movie business...
...reverential biography. Yale's Sterling Professor of History and author of The Enlightenment and The Bourgeois Experience is a graduate of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. Yet if he is a doctrinaire Freudian, he does not show it. The great man, in Gay's eyes, was the product of a culture and period as well as of his upbringing. Yes, he had a beautiful, strong-minded mother whom he once saw naked, or, as he put it, matrem nudam. But he was also a Jew in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at a time of ferment in the arts...
...pizza business, where competition is as red hot as a pie straight from the oven. The pizza segment of the fast-food industry, overshadowed in the past by the marketing battles among the hamburger chains, has sprung to life with speedy- delivery contests, price wars and new-product campaigns. "It's an all-out conflagration," says Charles Henderson, vice president of marketing for Godfather's Pizza, the fifth largest U.S. chain (586 outlets). "This will make burger wars look like a neighborhood skirmish." Rather than fight it out, Pillsbury, the parent firm of Godfather's, has decided to sell...
...vacationers. Starting this week, Hurteau's employees will be cruising the lake, taking orders from boaters and transmitting them to headquarters by radio. Pizza Hut, which in the past offered only table service and pies to go, now includes home delivery at 1,000 of its outlets. Keeping the product hot counts too: Pizza Hut claims that it delivers its pies in containers made from space-suit material, which provides extra insulation...