Corporate Marital Bliss


	Corporate Marital Bliss

Maureen Farrell

6-2-2008 10:20 AM

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Maureen Farrell says:

Great article outlining how Disney and Pixar have made it work and how Pixar has maintained some degree of entrepreneurial culture within a large corporation.

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