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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
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
Lovell began a career in telecommunications. He also coauthored Lost Moon, a book that inspired the movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. Lovell now serves on several space-related boards and is an advocate for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Star Turn
Courtesy Ascent Media Once an IT staffer at HBS, José Royo (MBA ’98) is CEO of Ascent Media Group, which provides postproduction and digital media services to Hollywood’s major movie studios. Royo earned a Ph.D. in East Asian studies from... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
speculation—and then, hopefully, sell it? “One of the top questions screenwriters talk about in their online communities is whether to pitch or to spec,” says Luo. In her paper published by Management Science, When to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Change Channel
Brian Graden (MBA ’89) is president of MTV Networks and of Logo, the new gay-oriented cable channel launched in June. Logo features mostly movies but also documentaries, sports, travel shows, original sitcoms, concerts, and more. “When... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
Hugh M. Hefner
doing, he brought a sense of respectability to an otherwise disrespected industry. By the seventies, circulation of Playboy peaked at 7 million, and Hefner had added night clubs, a cable television channel, movies and record production to... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
Movie buffs may recall that "plastics" was the whispered tip to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate; if the movie were remade today, "Web services" might replace that advice. An overflow... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
Heyman: hitting 317 screens. As a student at HBS, movie buff Matthew Heyman (MBA '93) used to ask classmates what the theaters were like in their hometowns. When two classmates from Mexico City told him the theaters there were terrible,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
in the contrasts he draws with the medium that still commands the bulk of campaign budgets—which, in the case of the upcoming presidential election, are estimated to swell to a combined $5 billion. Unlike on YouTube, where ads run before the main attraction like a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 14 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: Zurich, Warsaw, and Istanbul
good books to read or movies to watch while traveling? Because we were traveling to three cities in six days, it was essential to have good travel entertainment material. Our book choices were: Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Venture Capital, Post-Dot Bomb
so much global liquidity, too many dollars are chasing too few opportunities. “What’s going to prove me wrong?” Initially, Sahlman found little resistance to his gloomy forecast. “It’s an extremely hit-driven business that’s becoming more like the View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Sail Away
reported (January 11, 2010). Some of the cabins feature hardwood floors, walk-in closets, and fireplaces. The 971-foot ship will have three swimming pools, tennis courts, an outdoor movie theater, restaurants, and shops, among other... View Details
- 19 Dec 2019
- News
A Ranch of One’s Own
An established movie producer with numerous hits under his belt, Dan Lin (MBA 1999) understands the long, hard road from idea to script to silver screen. To smooth that journey, Lin founded Rideback Ranch two years ago in the Los Angeles... View Details
Keywords: LEGO
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
famous for its intellectual freedom,” Wang Jianlin, chairman of the global conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group, told 800-plus students who gathered in Burden Hall in October. “Ask me anything at all.” Students quizzed China’s richest man on the future of the Chinese View Details
- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
movie sound tracks from the 1940s and ’50s), gospel music, a duo concert by the She-E-Os and Heard on the Street (HBS’s own student a capella groups), and jazz. Rishi recalls no concert catastrophes more serious than a tenor being delayed... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
result in dead ends but occasionally lead in an unexpected direction to a blockbuster result. Some big budget movies are flops, others are sleepers, still others meet expectations. More risky than pursuing blockbusters is not to pursue... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Finding Your Family at HBS
watching a movie amongst friends sharing some wine or whiskey. We’ve laughed together, we’ve cried together, we’ve been the hug or shoulder that you sometimes need to get through a three-case day or midterm. Like gay communities... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
markets. By expanding program choice in this manner, cable operators were able to increase prices and attract more customers. Cable entrepreneurs also saw an opportunity to create "cable-only" channels by acquiring programming rights from View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Marriage, Inc.
London Observer (September 28, 2003), the book made major best-seller lists in the first week of publication, and Greenwald had already sold the movie rights when she began her book tour. While some may cringe at the thought of using... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Humor Us
As a Harvard undergraduate and an editor of the Harvard Lampoon, Robert Hoffman (MBA ’72) “helped spin the popular campus humor magazine into an irreverent national institution that skewered American culture and later spawned movies like... View Details