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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Gibson Hits a High Note
33ffea43b3115eba957356db0b41a6e4 It’s a turnaround story almost too good to be true. Gibson Guitar was down, and nearly out, in 1986 when Henry Juszkiewicz (MBA ’79) and David Berryman (MBA ’79) bought the legendary Nashville maker of acoustic and electric guitars.... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
20 Minutes With: CultureWorks CEO Josh Wyatt (MBA 2005)
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jackie Adams
competitors, and all three organizations saw news as a public trust. But by the mid-1980s, the networks had become divisions of large corporations, and profitability and entertainment value took center stage.” She notes that the advent of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Plastic Fantastic Friendship
A. Reynolds Morse (MBA 1939), founder of Ohio-based Injection Molders Supply Company and a longtime friend of artist Salvador Dalí, died last August in Florida. He was, the St. Petersburg Times (August 22, 2000) reported, "a political conservative who developed a... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
creator of All in the Family. “I had no experience in the entertainment business, I had never been to Hollywood, and I didn’t know anyone there,” says Horn. “He said, ‘You’re perfect,’ and hired me. He wanted a blank slate.” Perenchio was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
ABBASI: With the participation of HBS alumni and Hollywood heavyweights, bringing climate change drama into US living rooms. Related Link Preview: Years of Living Dangerously (video) by Garry Emmons Last spring, when a Hawaiian observatory reported that carbon dioxide... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
pervasive element of the entertainment business, a thread running through all of society. People in music today can sell any brand. I don’t care what it is. If you want social media to be successful, if it doesn’t include superstar music... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- News
Lessons Learned from Skydeck
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an industrial designer who worked for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Looking to the Majors
PAULSON: Sports is a tough business for ROI, but the returns to the community can be ample. Merritt Paulson (MBA ’00), owner of the minor league Portland Beavers Triple-A baseball team and the United Soccer League’s Portland Timbers, is thinking about The Show. That’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Download This
Downloading music from the Internet doesn’t kill CD sales after all, concludes a surprising new study by HBS associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Associate Professor Koleman Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “The Effect of File Sharing... View Details
- 27 Apr 2012
- News
Fantasy Football for Politics Junkies
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
Business and Creativity at elBulli WIZARD: Chef Ferran Adrià at the World Summit of Gastronomy in Tokyo. He’s been called “the Salvador Dalí of the kitchen” for creations ranging from beetroot and yogurt ice-cream lollipops to a deconstructed Spanish omelet served in a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Artist Christo Visits HBS
To illustrate entrepreneurship from a different angle, HBS professors Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon and research associate Ann Leamon wrote a case about Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-wife team known for their massive, self-funded outdoor art projects. (Their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent scholarship compares the rise of... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
As part of its 100th anniversary (www.hbs.edu/centennial) party for faculty, staff, and students in April, HBS brought in Benjamin Zander (www.benjaminzander.com), a world-renowned conductor and teacher who heads the Boston Philharmonic and New England Conservatory... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
Illustration by Nhung Lê Illustration by Nhung Lê When Jenny Cohen (MBA 1997), a longtime Disney exec, made the leap to executive VP of corporate social responsibility in early 2021, her first task was an especially existential one: “I spent a lot of time early on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Sochi Preview
Alexander Zhukov (PMD 61, 1991) With the Winter Olympics just months away, it's not only the athletes who are beginning to feel the pressure to perform well. Alexander Zhukov (PMD 61, 1991) is president of the Russian Olympic Committee, and some would say his... View Details