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- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
you are a technologist, but lack management or operating skills (marketing, sales, etc.), you may benefit from a more seasoned business leader as cofounder who has seen the movie before. While many operating skills can be learned,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Portrait Project
Brooke Biederman
or seeing a good movie with friends, or reading a few pages of a good book each give me a perhaps outsized happiness, because there was a time not long ago when I could not do any of these. Now, I will make that good View Details
- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
movie industry resides. Alcácer says that when Disney bought Pixar in 2006, Pixar executives asked to remain based in Northern California because they didn't want the company's culture to be negatively affected by the culture in Southern... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
warehouse inventory. Highlights Learn about the basics of population sampling. Start with the question you are trying to answer first before determining what population needs to be sampled. Explore how Walt Disney Studios uses data to recognize trends and inform... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS
invited to interview, but was not admitted. I tried again the following year with the same outcome, but this time without an interview. Both of these rejections were tough. However, I learned a lot about perseverance, and I hope what I learned could help you. One of my... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
activities they wish to resume, “dining at my favorite sit-down restaurant” topped a list that included visiting movie theaters, shopping centers, meeting friends and family at restaurants, and attending events at stadiums or arenas.... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
work? Iansiti: Netflix has been using AI for many years in a lot of different ways, for example, by learning how people choose movies according to the thumbprint picture that appears on the Netflix service. As a consumer, if you’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
An Average Day at HBS
Italian food in the North End), and sporting events. Try to make a list of what you want to see and do in the city before school and stick to it. Socializing: use the weekend to spend some time with your new friends. Go out for meals, walk around Boston, plan a View Details
- Web
The Benefits of a Residential Campus - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)
felt different and out of place. In 2019, I watched The Farewell at a movie theater in Brooklyn. It centers on Billi (played by Awkwafina) who travels back to China with her family to reconnect with her grandma. In one early scene, Billi... View Details
- 16 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision
this data we examined whether the choices people anticipate making in the future (represented by the order in which they rent movies) systematically differ from the choices people make in the "heat of the moment" (represented by the order in which they watch... View Details
- Web
Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
holiday sales season, the demonstration took place at Jordan Marsh in Boston, one of the region's leading department stores. To orchestrate the rollout of the product, Polaroid hired J. Harold Booth, known for his success in sales and marketing at Bell & Howell... View Details
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
Pandemic Influenza Drive-In Nation Judgment Day for the U.S. Auto Industry? The Producers What’s it like to make movies in Hollywood outside the big-budget studios? A handful of independent producers talk about the risky but rewarding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
because my mom took me to work.” Namesake: Destined, a movie that turns on one chance-based event to portray two very different outcomes for a teenage boy growing up in Detroit. Why real estate: “My mom did an amazing job raising me as a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Turning Point: Listen to the Music
and it should be noted that filmmakers such as Ron Howard and Jonathan Demme credit him with their start in filmmaking. In addition to the movie business, I spent more than 25 years in radio in Los Angeles and San Francisco, working as a... View Details
- Web
Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
investment banking houses considered film studios a risky venture, by the late 1920s, movie attendance had skyrocketed to the millions, transforming the motion picture business into a major industry. As the nation recovered from the Great... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
of power. In 1938, as the Great Depression was beginning to lift, but war was imminent, many families were struggling, and only 10 percent of engagement rings sold in the United States included diamonds. De Beers hired an ad agency that used View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Profile
Bridgette Slater
I should add attorney to this list. What is your favorite childhood memory? Watching movies with my grandmother. She and I have a dream to one day visit Prince Edward Island in Canada together because we love the Anne of Green Gables... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling
watched the Mahabharata on rented videotapes. I watched Bollywood movies religiously. I wrote in my HBS essay: “According to The New York Times, Bollywood is viewed as an industry that can successfully market its wares only to those... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
industries like biotech, you can test things along the way to see if they are feasible, but for creative ideas like a film, you can’t experiment. You have huge uncertainty and you have to think about how to manage that risk.” One way that View Details