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Jason A. Kilar

I could about who created all this. I’d watched Disney movies and all that but I now had a passion and desire to find out about Walt Disney, the entrepreneur. So much of my middle school and high school years were about understanding who... View Details

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Kaki Ettinger

engineer to launch new functionalities for his nonprofit coding website, and leverage human-centered design principles to do research for a large corporation. During the final semester of my MBA, I applied analytic skills learned in class to an R&D project for The... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship

01 Dec 2000
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Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue

fifteen-minute presentation. "About a minute into my story," recalls McCarter, "Fred said, 'You want to buy Sue?' and I said, 'Yes,' and he said, 'McDonald's is in.'" While it took several months to sort out the details, ultimately McDonald's made a substantial cash... View Details

Keywords: McDonald's; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

15 Nov 2016
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China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective

Manufacture City, a major production site for Taiwan-based Quanta Computer; Alibaba, the internet business giant, located in Hangzhou; and Wanxiang, the automobile components firm set to debut an electric car in the United States. Additionally, the team visited... View Details

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Community Values & Honor Code | HBS Online

crafting a response: “ChatGPT, response to “What is the history of the bond market?” OpenAI, February 8, 2023.” o Quoting material from a company website: Walt Disney Company, “Company Overview,” http://corporate.disney.go.com/... View Details

02 Jan 2014
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The Power to Change

a world-travel adventure for a year. They were at a Disney resort in Tokyo—riding through a simulated volcano attraction of all things—when the catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck. Wilcox says the terror of the moment, the... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Business and Environment Initiative; Scientific Research and Development Services

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Ferguson (MBA 2014) Managing Partner, Burnt Island VenturesBake Sustainability into the Core of What You Do +Alan Horn (MBA 1971) Chief Creative Officer, Disney Studios ContentBusiness Should Lead the Way +Scott Jacobs (MBA 2007) CEO and... View Details

01 Oct 2013
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Banking on Africa's Future

chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, Helios's focus... View Details

04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook

co-workers acknowledging her struggle. After noting some of the other political and commercial opportunities potentially available to her—“ Walt Disney Co. CEO or California senator”—the magazine reports that Sandberg wants to stay put.... View Details

29 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Latinx Women in the Spotlight: Marimar Pérez-Riera (MBA 1994)

I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, and Spanish is my first language. There was no Nickelodeon or Disney Channel so I learned English watching Sesame Street. My gift was math and science, and after studying hard and graduating from... View Details

29 May 2017
Blog Post

The Diverse Community at HBS

Before I came to HBS, I worked at Disney in a consumer insights role with the Corporate Brand Development and Studio Marketing teams. Tracking evolving consumer behaviors in entertainment was part of my job and I was fascinated by the... View Details

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Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library

at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. In 1910, the journal split— Daily News Record continued covering men’s fashion, while women’s fashion moved to a separate publication, now known as Women's Wear Daily (also held at Baker). Over the years, the publication was owned by... View Details

16 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Is MySpace.com Your Space?

Research, a leading journal publishing interdisciplinary studies of consumer behavior. Sean Silverthorne: Who is using MySpace to advertise? John Deighton: Fox created a profile page for X-Men: The Last Stand. Disney ran a contest to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Information; Publishing

01 Jun 2016
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Prima Datarina

pricing puts it on the cutting edge of arts organizations. See how other orchestras, theaters, and performing arts organizations are experimenting with business model and pricing innovations – it’s probably no surprise that Disney has a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 Feb 2020
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Running a Decathlon

space was donated by Loyola Marymount University for the national competition and funding came from Pacific Life Insurance Company, Lawry’s Foods, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Company, and many other businesses. In 1982, Academic... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

25 Feb 2020
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Beyond the Plastisphere

reusable insulated water bottles. Kauss works with designers and artists to introduce new looks every season, often in partnership with major brands such as Disney and National Geographic. Her goal, however, is not to help people look... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)

An Emmy Award–winning television writer, Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) started out by taking a sitcom writing class at the UCLA Extension School while working as a senior business planner at Walt Disney Studios. Now an executive producer for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

Memoir, by Anna Wiener The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, by Robert Iger —Kurt Daniel (MBA 2000) Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering, by Makoto Fujimura A reflection on... View Details

11 Jul 2013
News

The Good Writer

of the European Common Market in 1792. Before HBS, he worked as an M&A analyst at Morgan Stanley. In the summer between his first and second years, he worked as a summer intern at Cineplex Odeon in his native Toronto, and then upon graduation started as a senior... View Details