近日,美国《福布斯》杂志从电影史中选出最具有商业教育意义的11部电影,希望企业家和企业管理阶层可以从中受到启发。这些电影并非全部是票房大热门,有些甚至跟卖座沾不上边,但是它们都或多或少包含了对企业家有价值的经验教训——从如何选择正确的客户到怎样应对来自强劲的竞争对手的挑战。
《上班一条虫》(1999)
《走钢丝的人》(2008) Compared to cop movies or love stories, movies about business are few and far between. Business settings may lack romance and car chases, but some of the best movies of all time have been about business. Here are the best of the best.
The best business movie of all time? Citizen Kane is the runaway choice for our panel of movie mavens. This selection is hardly shocking since many rank the 1941 film directed by Orson Welles as the greatest ever, period. New York Daily News critic Jack Mathews calls it "the definitive look at the megalomaniac-as-mogul."
"I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?" Kane asks an acquaintance. Otherwise, he is somewhat less modest. What is more surprising is that the Kane legacy never touched off a tradition of business-giant biopics, real or invented. Where are the movies about Henry Ford, Ray Kroc or even Walt Disney? (There has been a movie about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, but it was made for TV.)
Citizen Kane, in many ways, stands alone as a business movie by telling the story of an empire builder and the price he--and others--pay. Since then, every media mogul (or wannabe mogul) is inevitably compared to Charles Foster Kane. (See table below for more on individual films.)
The Godfather: Part II was our panel's second choice, beating out the original Godfather, which ranks fourth. We were not quite sure that the Godfather movies should be considered business movies, since the business at issue is largely criminal, but our panel of producers, directors, critics, writers and professors assured us they are.
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