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- 14 Oct 2021
- News
Disney’s Alan Horn to Retire
Longtime Disney studio head Alan Horn (MBA 1971) announced this week that he is set to retire at the end of this year. Holding the official title chief creative officer of Disney Studios Content, his deep impact on the company was highlighted by the New York Times.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
A bit of Hollywood came to HBS recently when Steven Samuels spoke at the invitation of the School’s Entertainment and Media Club. A former real estate developer, Samuels is an independent movie producer with a solid body of work under his... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
A Vision for the Earth
Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011) is a retired colonel with the US Air Force and former NASA astronaut. He has piloted the Space Shuttle and logged more than 200 days aboard the International Space Station, where he conducted a wide range of scientific experiments and helped... View Details
Walter E. Disney
Disney was a pioneer in the family entertainment business. From his ground-breaking introduction of the animated cartoon Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse in 1928 to the launch of the first full-length animated film in 1937 (Snow White), Disney built a media... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 21 Feb 2017
- News
How Michael Sheresky Helped Hidden Figures See the Light
helped “package” the film, “helping the remarkable, little-known story about a group of black women mathematicians at NASA find the largest possible audience.” The piece offers a chronology of the path the two took to bring the movie to... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
some participants indicated a preference for one of two movies, a five-star thriller or a five-star documentary, while an assigned partner observed the preferences. Next, the choice-making participants were faced with this scenario: “Suppose that your first-choice... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
States and from international markets and skyrocketing production costs pose huge challenges to the movie industry. Film- production costs alone, Vogel pointed out, have risen 9.5 percent annually since 1980. Strauss Zelnick agreed,... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Roll the Credits
the ratings system, to challenge government boards that censored Hollywood content” (USA Today, March 24, 2004). In those days, the movies were the country’s undisputed entertainment choice; today, by contrast, there is an “onslaught of... View Details
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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology
its instamatic 100 camera and, in 1965, released its Super 8 camera, a motion picture camera used to record home movies on 8mm film. Previous On 1963, Kodak unveiled its instamatic 100 camera and, in 1965, released its Super 8 camera, a... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
In 2007, Sony Pictures became the first multinational studio to enter the India film business known as Bollywood with its $7 million film Saawariya. The movie grossed only $9 million. That same year, Walt Disney Pictures collaborated with... View Details
Michael D. Eisner
Eisner headed the second-largest media and entertainment company in the U.S. having grown its market value from $3 billion to approximately $70 billion in his first 14 years as CEO. Eisner has released animated movie hits such as The... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Educating the next generation of filmmakers
Film producer Dan Lin (MBA 1999) likes to create hero stories that inspire and entertain children and their families. The producer of The Lego Movie is now teaching Chinese filmmakers how to tell their own stories. (Published November... View Details
Howard R. Hughes, Jr.
more importantly, produced several advances in aviation speed performance. His business success was extended to the movie industry where he successfully produced films, including Hell’s Angels, Scarface and The Outlaws. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
incentives, many operational problems can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings: interorganizational because the medical supply company deals with a hospital group and the video store acquires its products from movie... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
Carl Laemmle
Laemmle, one of the most outstanding figures in Hollywood, created the “star” system that was to dominate American filmmaking. He consolidated independent studios and was responsible for the development of countless movie stars. Laemmle... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
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John Oxtoby
John is advising the movie The Butler, based on the true experiences of an African-American butler who served in the White House through the crucial civil rights years between the Eisenhower and Reagan administrations. Starring Forest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
What’s On?
KILAR After working at Amazon.com for nine years, in 2007 Jason Kilar (MBA ’97) became CEO of Hulu, the service that brings popular television programming and movies to computers via high-quality streaming video. Hulu, free and... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Josh Singer won’t tell me where he keeps his Oscar. In 2016, he won Hollywood’s most coveted award for cowriting Spotlight, the movie about Boston Globe journalists uncovering the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal that also took home... View Details
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South Asian Business Association | MBA
Retreat EKTA (intersection Bollywood Dance Competition) Cultural celebrations throughout the year (Diwali, Eid, Holi, Garba, poetry nights, movie nights, cricket watch parties, etc.) Club Email Address saba@studentclubs.hbs.edu Club... View Details