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- 07 Aug 2019
- News
Step Right In
Photo via TechCrunch Photo via TechCrunch David Askaryan (MBA 2015) has built a virtual reality experience called the Museum of Future Experiences (MoFE), that is elevating VR to a whole new level: Imagine a blend of immersive theater and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
talks about religion and sexual orientation, but it directly translates to other areas of diversity,” says Baron. He is now putting the finishing touches on Mr. and Mrs. G., a play he anticipates will be coming soon to a theater near you.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
One Student’s HBS Journey
dreamed of,” said Wallace of her time at HBS, during which she cochaired this year’s Social Enterprise Conference and the Democrats Club, participated in the 2009 New Orleans service immersion, and acted and played cello in the HBS Show. Wallace, a math and View Details
- Portrait Project
Marie-Laure Goepfer
"I want everything, right now, and I want it all. I do not want to be modest and just be happy with a little piece if I behave well. I want everything to be as beautiful as when I was a child - or die." – Antigone, Jean Anouilh When I was 20, I played the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
experience to guide the creative team and to see our vision come to life,” reported Aragon, an active participant in theater for many years. “It was also a practical application of many classroom principles: We encountered financial,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) loved being a Broadway producer and came to HBS because she thought the live theater industry could learn a lot from other industries. She also loved her time on campus,... View Details
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
George School, and Buckingham Friends School. At HBS, they have been regular reunion attendees, and Jones has served as a class fundraising leader during both reunion and non-reunion years, recently chairing their class’s 25th Reunion Campaign. Garrett earned an AB in... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
would call near the frontier of human experience. Ordinarily I'd say near the frontier of business experience, but creative collaboration is very much relevant to business and the field of innovation." Austin is writing a book—the working title is Reliable... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
screens in India. With movie tickets in the country selling for only 57 cents on average, and a digital screen costing $150,000, installing one usually doesn't make economic sense for theaters. Should local theater owners be prosecuted... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
West Point, where he learned the Cadet Prayer: "Lord give me strength to choose the harder right over the easier wrong." He calls upon this strength frequently. Back in Chicago during a college break, for example, an old friend sneaked into a movie View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Harvard Business School Case 319-013 Jackie Taylor: The Black Ensemble Theater Jackie Taylor, an African American social entrepreneur, founded the Black Ensemble Theater in 1976. Since the ensemble’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- December 2007 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
Xanadu on Broadway
By: Anita Elberse
Can one of Hollywood's biggest flops magically turn into a Broadway hit? Xanadu, an adaptation of a 1980 Olivia Newton-John roller-disco film described by one critic as "the epic failure to end all epic failures," opened on Broadway in July 2007. Producer Rob Ahrens,... View Details
Keywords: Theater Entertainment; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Demand and Consumers; Risk and Uncertainty; Creativity; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Elberse, Anita. "Xanadu on Broadway." Harvard Business School Case 508-062, December 2007. (Revised August 2014.)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
You don’t need to be trained in theater to present well. You don’t need to have the humor of Jerry Seinfeld or the looks of Brad Pitt or the stage presence of Taylor Swift. You simply need to think logically, prepare diligently, and speak... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
variety of immersive experiences, they do share one through line: multisensory engagement. From a theater perspective, Sleep No More has been encouraging audiences to get up from their seats and join the theatrics—literally chasing actors... View Details
- March 2002
- Case
Mark Taper Forum (A)
The Mark Taper Forum, a regional nonprofit theatre in Los Angeles, has discovered and produced a highly acclaimed play entitled Angles in America. Because of the play's success, for-profit theatres on Broadway in New York have become extremely interested in... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Nonprofit Organizations; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Theater Entertainment; Los Angeles
Levy, Reynold, and Lee Koffler. "Mark Taper Forum (A)." Harvard Business School Case 302-106, March 2002.
- Profile
John Nordin
element drives the quality of the classroom experience. "Our professors really care and bring an element of theater to the classroom," says John. "At first, I thought the idea of working ninety people into a conversation... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
movie theaters did with the advent of television. Myth #2: There are no barriers to entry on the Internet. What about the huge sums, asked Bezos, that Amazon and other e-commerce companies invest in their businesses? Barriers to entry are... View Details
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Xue (Ken) Yuan
one-hundred percent Mandarin comedy?” In August 2011, they pulled together their first show in a small bar that held fifty to eighty people. Within a year, thanks to word-of-mouth and Weibo – China’s equivalent to Twitter – they were packing View Details
- Profile
Stephanie Atiase
dreams that are the first step to actualizing goals. We then turn their stories into live theater productions where kids can see their own words on stage. It’s all about teaching kids the about the strength of words; the power of acting... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
Since boyhood, when he first began staging skits with his own puppet ensemble, Thomas Høegh has loved theatrical production. As a teenage impresario in his native Norway, he put on mind-bending multimedia shows and created satirical revues for Oslo's high-school crowd.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons