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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
"People like to see other people do outlandish things." —Barry Frank (MBA 1957), legendary sports-media dealmaker and producer of Battle of the Network Stars and American Gladiators. (Variety, September 24, 2012) View Details
- 16 Dec 2019
- News
Jeff Shell to Become CEO of NBCUniversal
Current chairman of NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment Jeff Shell (MBA 1991) will take over as CEO of the media company on January 1, reports the Los Angeles Times. In a statement to the Times, Brian Roberts, the current CEO of... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
the first MBA student to give birth while at HBS and then go on to complete her degree. At the Entertainment & Media Club’s annual conference a couple of weeks ago, keynoter Gerry Lopez (MBA ’84), CEO and president of AMC Theatres, stated... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
passenger can create his own climate zone. We customize our music and then implant the made-to-order entertainment directly into our ears. And what bigger marketing success have we seen in the past generation than the coffeehouses where... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 15 Apr 2010
- News
A (Literal) Game Changer
- 07 Sep 2011
- News
Lessons Learned from Skydeck
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
Researching the entertainment industry, Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has found that blockbuster strategies work. Content producers who pursue these strategies make huge investments in a small... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
crashes. All we did was bring the entertainment level of television and movies to the issue of safety, which is a tough story to tell in a compelling way. Those commercials have really helped people take note that VWs have the highest JD... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
university presses. As volunteer vice chairman of New York–based Do Something, Inc., Dave Mazza is one of many classmates to put his skills to work in the community. Dave combined his career's worth of executive search contacts with his personal passion for sports to... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
Donna Khalife (MBA 2011, at left) and sister, Rosy, make their pitch on ABC-TV's Shark Tank. Donna Khalife (MBA 2011) and her sister, Rosy, were taking a lunch break from work on their startup Surprise Ride—which delivers a box of curated children's activities... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Sail Away
ROBB: A luxury home in every glamorous port. Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times Set to launch in 2013, the $1.1 billion Utopia will be a cruise ship with a difference: About half its cabins will be sold as private residences, ranging in price from $3.7 million to $26... View Details
- 28 Jul 2021
- News
Squarely in Their Corner
Fox’s entertainment and sports networks and digital properties. “She just demonstrated to me that perfect combination of badass businesswoman and mother,” said Ahuja, the mother of two young sons. “She rarely thinks about boundaries or... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
Entertainment is the single binding thread that brings people together, no matter who they are or where they’re from. We’re now in a world where what you can do is more important than where you went to school. This is especially true in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
all four Madagascar films. Baobab creates interactive, animated VR worlds that feel less like games—in many early VR experiences, users engage with characters only to win something—and more like movies. For Fan, animated VR is the View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
He’s Back
Wesleyan, he returned three punts for touchdowns and led the NCAA’s Division III in average punt-return yards his senior year), Robinson returns to his former stomping grounds at a busy time. Several big projects are in progress: a $2 billion shopping and View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
had agreed to work at different jobs in my company. But I would not appear as myself, the president and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE), one of America’s premier, privately held theme-park operators. Instead, I would be “John... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
More than a Game
Serious fun: Old Boys returned from around the world for their annual match with the HBS Rugby Club Photography by Ben Staples It is said that soccer is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians, whereas rugby — a grueling physical contest that puts its unpadded... View Details
- 21 Nov 2011
- News
Mobile Gaming is a Big Play
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
social enterprise and was an active member of the Entertainment and Media and Social Enterprise clubs. “HBS is a great learning lab,” he says. “You can immediately apply what you learn to the rest of your life — and that’s exactly what I... View Details