organization films
Brayden
Lisa Fairfax at the Conglomerate wonders what movie clips corporate law professors use to spice up their classes. She uses Barbarians at the Gate and a clip from Trading Places. I show parts of The Corporation and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room to inspire a little debate in the class. I also use clips from Apollo 13 to demonstrate how ideal-type bureaucracies are supposed to work, and clips from Office Space in discussing Merton’s pathologies of bureaucracy. What other films or television shows do people use?
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I use startup.com, which is about two guys that start an internet firm during the dotcom boom a few years ago. Nice documentary on how organizations evolve.
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Fabio Rojas
September 6, 2006 at 6:06 pm
Some materials that I have found helpful:
In films – Hoosiers has some nice intuition about change and culture (of the org’l variety). In documentaries – the Mt. Everest IMAX one is great on decision-making, biases, and teams; the (Sundance award-winning) Dogtown documentary (not movie) is fantastic on the evolution of technology etc. In sitcoms – I am trying to find ways to slip in snippets of The Office; and I use a fantastically relevant Curb Your Enthusiasm-clip for illustrating myth and ceremony in organizations.
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Teppo
September 7, 2006 at 4:49 am
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