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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Well-Tuned Life
CARLO AND OLIVIA FRANZBLAU: family harmony. At age 13, Carlo Franzblau (MBA ’88) was given the lead in his summer camp’s musical production of Bye Bye Birdie on the condition that he not do any solos. Ever since, when moved to song, he’s never been quite sure if he was... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
Ann Sarnoff To Lead Warner Bros. Studio
Former BBC executive Ann Sarnoff (MBA 1987) has been named the CEO of Warner Bros.—the company’s first-ever female CEO. As detailed in the New York Times, Sarnoff’s career “has included leadership roles at Nickelodeon, the Women’s National Basketball Association, Dow... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to have a profound, life-altering... View Details
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United Fruit Company Photograph Collection | Baker Library
include planting, spraying, irrigation, and harvesting. Photographs also depict the construction and running of railroads, the building of wharves, company towns, schools, hospitals, and recreational facilities. The photographs also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Focal Point
Launched in 2002 by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002), shown here with Ali Nuger (MBA 2012), the Portrait Project asks graduating HBS students to respond to these final lines from “The Summer Day” by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
“Hang on a second, let me just get my phone real quick,” Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) says midway through a conversation one Friday morning in May, darting out the door of a glass-walled conference room in Los Angeles. She gives the entirely plausible impression of a person... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Putting a spell on theatergoers
Alan Horn (MBA 1971) has brought a touch of magic to the big screen and record-breaking numbers to the bottom line as chairman of Walt Disney Studios and former president and chief operating officer of Warner Bros. Entertainment. At Disney, he oversees worldwide... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
tasting, conducted by an obliging wine merchant, to get ready for this year's challenge." Winetastings are just one of many kinds of recreational and more substantive events designed to reach Weedon's goal of increasing participation of... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 21 Sep 2014
- News
The Man Behind the Central Park Horse Show
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
While watching the spectacular and only slightly enhanced (digitally and chemically) Olympics, I found myself wondering how many HBS Olympians there have been over the years. I could think of only one—Paul Wylie (MBA 2000C), who won a silver medal in figure skating in... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
challenges faced by an outdoor recreation sector that contributes 650 billion dollars to our national economy. He talked to associate editor April White about the sport’s past, it’s future, and the toughest climb he ever made. READ MORE... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
Illustration by Michael White In the universe of superheroes and rock ’em, sock ’em action, a comic book tracking the adventures of “Turnaround Man” has yet to appear. If and when that happens, the most likely inspiration for such a character would be Peter Cuneo (MBA... 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 especially heady years in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hollywood Squared
In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal (September 4, 2007), Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Michael Lynton (MBA ’87) declared that from his perspective “the global economy in general — and the entertainment business in particular — is absolutely... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 05 Apr 2020
- News
Launching in a World in Limbo
photo by Getty/Bloomberg Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) and Jeffrey Katzenberg have said from the very beginning that their mobile, short-form streaming service, Quibi, would launch on April 6. Even as the world has been hobbled by a pandemic, they nailed their deadline. On... View Details
- 28 Feb 2020
- News
Kelly Campbell Named President of Hulu
Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Walt Disney Co. announced that it was promoting Kelly Campbell (MBA 2005) to president of the streaming service Hulu, the Los Angeles Times reports. With 30 million subscribers and a host of network television... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 23 Mar 2014
- News
76ers' CEO Plays It Forward
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Renaissance Man
Turning the page: A collection decades in the making tells the story of a lifelong passion. Image Copyright Sotheby’s (Photo Credit: Nathan Keay, Tiny Mechanism) Thomas Brooker (MBA 1968) acquired his first rare book in 1959, during a junior year abroad in Paris. At a... View Details