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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest
management: “I was general manager at the Marriott in Phuket, Thailand, during the 2004 tsunami. We were fortunate enough to be able to set up a triage center to help others in the area. I had nightmares for a couple of weeks afterward.” 50th birthday party: A View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
start a network from scratch?" In a stellar career that has also included stints running several movie studios and a national theater chain (as well as leading the initial U.S. rollout of Sony's PlayStation), Sagansky has always had his... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
of nature, he describes himself simply as an "organizer by instinct." As a high-school student, for example, he rallied his classmates to raise money to build a private chemistry lab — the lab at school had limited hours —by showing rented View Details
Keywords: Government
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
Apkon: With Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg, celebrating the Jacob Burns Film Center's 10th anniversary. Stephen Apkon’s first movie memory is a little hazy. He’s pretty sure it was Mary Poppins, showing as the first half of a drive-in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
pop-up ads on most sites. Instead, its “immersive” advertising was more like the product placements common to television and movies — sponsors’ products or messages appear in the context of the site’s games and activities.) As the class... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
of the issues near and dear to the Class of 2009. The event, which organizers thought might be a first in HBS history (or at least the first in quite some time) included complimentary beverages and enough popcorn to fuel a movie marathon.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
edge and attract new devotees without losing its core following? “We can still accommodate the traditional customer because our styling is classic,” says Matthew McEvoy (MBA 1989), strategic planning director at Burberry. Founded in 1856, the creator of the iconic... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
vineyards, and immersing myself in local culture, which was definitely facilitated by a motorcycle. But then what happened was I went to go see a movie called The Highest Pass, And The Highest Pass was a View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
seemed to me that it didn't do me any good to take pity on myself or to say, woe is me. I just kept saying, what's next. And how am I going to get through this? So I developed a survivor mentality. And the moral compass really in those days, between the nuns and the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Straus Professor of Business Administration MIT Press Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
intelligence firm he started in the early 1970s was just a decade later digging up assets hidden by powerful individuals, including Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein. Kroll’s work even inspired the 2000 View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
Invasion! surpassed the 1 million download mark. The short also won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding interactive film and was optioned as a full-length animated movie. (The movie will not involve VR, a testament to the studio’s focus on... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
forward prep to the time we deliver it. We have these incredible movie nights or movie days where we take people out of the office. We shut down the office about once a month and go have a service project.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
Illustration by Avalon Nuovo Before launching her own startup, Lily Liang (MBA 2008) worked as a product manager in San Francisco’s tech industry, including a stint at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes from 2012 to 2017. Those were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
the 1930s, for example, per-person movie ticket sales were seven times higher than at the end of the 1990s. Fox Photos/Getty Images In the sweep of U.S. history, consumption had been a force for great change. Much of this change played... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
decisions regarding what to do with these films: They could put them on DVDs, or run them in movie theaters before feature films, or do any number of other things. What’s the takeaway from the case? One surprise is that the method of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Katie Hood: Fast Forward Hood Hood and Fox In the hit movie Back to the Future, actor Michael J. Fox plays Marty McFly, a teenager in a hurry. Accidentally sent backward through time, Marty encounters a slew of nasty complications. (One... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
"the virtual movie studio" by Gordon Radley, president of Lucasfilm. In the Real World Once the speeches, panel discussions, and video displays had concluded, conference participants took to the field on March 22 for a day of company... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice