Jennifer Begakis

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  16000 Aiglon Street, Pacific Palisades, United States

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  Jennifer Begakis is a
  Historian and Ph.D. Candidate at Cornell University. I specialize in the Walt Disney Company. My Dissertation, "The Best Laid Plans of Mouse and its Men; Testing the Limits of Disney's Strategic Planning," focuses on the origins of Disney's Parks and Resorts' capital investment strategies from the 1930s to the present. Why Disney and capitalism? I often feel redundant when I say I am a historian of both. Disney is interchangeable with American consumer culture, and critically Disney's content is synonymous with the idea of the American dream. Disney Parks and Resorts have set several gold standards in technology, hospitality, themed design, operations, and management. The Walt Disney Company has shaped U.S. copyright and trademark law, intellectual property law, municipal bond sales and financing, and real estate zoning laws throughout its history. Even so, my doctoral work centers on the history of downside risks for the Disney Parks business--particularly as those risks relate to ongoing tensions between Disney's creatives' mission and Disney's business objectives. I illustrate what Disney has and continues to show: the power of telling and selling stories. Concerning the history of global Wall Street, Disney was a pioneer in capitalizing on macro trends in financialization after WWII and attracting institutional investors who funded the creation of his brand-new theme park business. When the American Main Street was progressively linked to Wall Street and shareholder value subsequently oriented more closely to company share price, Walt Disney used his powerful leverage--stories. Indeed, Walt Disney leveraged his reputation in Hollywood to build Disneyland, an entirely separate enterprise outside his film entertainment company, Walt Disney Productions. Disney continued to use its knack for storytelling to tell and sell stories to investors to finance gutsy ventures and brand-new investment schemes such as Walt Disney World in Florida. For all of Disney's triumphs, I focus on critical limitations of the investment strategies that "all started with a mouse." As a historian of The Walt Disney Company, the famous company's failures carry with them a new history of the Disney Parks and Resorts and American capitalism that stories of Disney's great big beautiful, and strategic tomorrows do not. Cornell University

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  Cornell University

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  Historian and Ph.D. Candidate at Cornell University. I specialize in the Walt Disney Company. My Dissertation, "The Best Laid Plans of Mouse and its Men; Testing the Limits of Disney's Strategic Planning," focuses on the origins of Disney's Parks and Resorts' capital investment strategies from the 1930s to the present. Why Disney and capitalism? I often feel redundant when I say I am a historian of both. Disney is interchangeable with American consumer culture, and critically Disney's content is synonymous with the idea of the American dream. Disney Parks and Resorts have set several gold standards in technology, hospitality, themed design, operations, and management. The Walt Disney Company has shaped U.S. copyright and trademark law, intellectual property law, municipal bond sales and financing, and real estate zoning laws throughout its history. Even so, my doctoral work centers on the history of downside risks for the Disney Parks business--particularly as those risks relate to ongoing tensions between Disney's creatives' mission and Disney's business objectives. I illustrate what Disney has and continues to show: the power of telling and selling stories. Concerning the history of global Wall Street, Disney was a pioneer in capitalizing on macro trends in financialization after WWII and attracting institutional investors who funded the creation of his brand-new theme park business. When the American Main Street was progressively linked to Wall Street and shareholder value subsequently oriented more closely to company share price, Walt Disney used his powerful leverage--stories. Indeed, Walt Disney leveraged his reputation in Hollywood to build Disneyland, an entirely separate enterprise outside his film entertainment company, Walt Disney Productions. Disney continued to use its knack for storytelling to tell and sell stories to investors to finance gutsy ventures and brand-new investment schemes such as Walt Disney World in Florida. For all of Disney's triumphs, I focus on critical limitations of the investment strategies that "all started with a mouse." As a historian of The Walt Disney Company, the famous company's failures carry with them a new history of the Disney Parks and Resorts and American capitalism that stories of Disney's great big beautiful, and strategic tomorrows do not.

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  Cornell University

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  Cornell University , Cornell University .

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