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...last three years, the Yale roster has looked like a Xerox of the All-Ivy list. But last spring, the gifted individuals responsible for three consecutive Eli championships finally left New Haven...
...Magoo cartoons were as simple and nearsighted as their subject. The Flintstones might just as well have been on radio. Ralph Bakshi seemingly made The Lord of the Rings with tracing paper and a Xerox machine. Now even the Disney organization is preoccupied with wooing the nation's video-game addicts over to its computer movie TRON. So it may be up to Bon Bluth to carry the torch of classical animation. Bluth would have it no other way. Like a conservative bishop fighting his church for abandoning the Latin Mass, Bluth left the Disney cartoon studio...
...moment, interactive programs are being used or developed at Atari (the disc acts as an indefatigable salesman in the showroom); IBM; Sears, Roebuck (Looking for a gingham dress? You can find it on their videodisc catalogue); General Motors; the Smithsonian Institution; Walt Disney Productions; Xerox; and the National Gallery of Art (recording 16,000 works of art for scholarly delectation). As a teaching tool for schools, industry and museums, the interactive videodisc has an assured place...
...often as not, a firm's in-house culture is reflected in the face that the company presents to the world at large. The "work hard / play hard" cultures of companies like McDonald's, IBM, Xerox, Pitney Bowes and R.H. Macy carry well beyond the office, showing up in a dedication to sales and customer service. A spirit of entrepreneurial risk-taking helps "bet-your-company" firms like Exxon and Boeing to make huge investments in high-risk ventures that take years to develop...
Skills that create success in one company's culture can cause failure in another's. Deal and Kennedy would urge a rising GE executive to think hard, for example, before accepting a bigger job at Xerox. Reason: GE moves slowly and cautiously, while Xerox runs at "a near frenetic pace...