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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Hollywood and Humility
flurry of movie projects, including a three-picture deal with director M. Night Shyamalan, the pair is becoming, through MRC, one of the largest suppliers of programming for television, according to Daily Variety (September 25, 2008).... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Life of Ted
TURNER AND BURKE: Capturing the boss in print. Courtesy Bill Burke Immediately after graduating from HBS, Bill Burke (MBA ’92) went south, where he helped start Turner Classic Movies and later became president of TBS, the Atlanta... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
result in dead ends but occasionally lead in an unexpected direction to a blockbuster result. Some big budget movies are flops, others are sleepers, still others meet expectations. More risky than pursuing blockbusters is not to pursue... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Marriage, Inc.
London Observer (September 28, 2003), the book made major best-seller lists in the first week of publication, and Greenwald had already sold the movie rights when she began her book tour. While some may cringe at the thought of using... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
incentives, many operational problems can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings: interorganizational because the medical supply company deals with a hospital group and the video store acquires its products from movie... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
film-related internships, which furthered her interests in movies and television, as did serving as director of the HBS Entertainment & Media Club, coproducer of the club’s annual Entertainment & Media Conference, and director of the HBS... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Play's the Thing
Baron, the first non-European to win the prestigious award. "I think it's a well-made story, and it's funny," said Baron, a former executive with American Express and Coca-Cola who later became a television and movie writer. "It's really... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
forward to today. The Rock has become a household name as both a wrestling legend and a global movie star. Perhaps less well known is that Johnson and his business partner, Dany Garcia, have quickly gained ground in Hollywood as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
who served alongside male-only US Special Operations teams in Afghanistan became a bestseller and is being turned into a movie by Reese Witherspoon. But Lemmon, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is proudest of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Portrait Project
Sarah Murphy
My younger sister flaps her hands with wild excitement when she's happy. Her favorite days usually involve a great movie and a hand-tossed pizza. She's autistic, yet has taught me the most powerful lessons about the simple pleasures of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Carl Petty
to go unsaid or someone to not know how important they are. A quote from a favorite movie – Breaker Morant - serves as my guide: "Live every day as though it were your last – one day you're sure to be right." View Details
Howard R. Hughes, Jr.
more importantly, produced several advances in aviation speed performance. His business success was extended to the movie industry where he successfully produced films, including Hell’s Angels, Scarface and The Outlaws. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
dollars to spend in a given year, you're better off making 100 movies that each cost $10 million, or 20 that each cost $50 million. But it turns out that it's much safer to make a handful of really, really big bets. On average, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
fabrics firm in Pennsylvania, but prior to that, he had run a departmentstore chain in Southern California and had friends and contacts in the movie industry. With their help, in 1994 Seder founded the Big Picture Alliance (BPA), an... View Details
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IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design | Information Technology
Featured Case IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design The multimedia case takes viewers behind the scenes of a human-centered design company, IDEO, as they embrace the shifting demands of their global client base. The case examines IDEO’s work for Cineplanet, the largest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
on the retailer’s shelf, however, is less than $3. Demand for an individual movie is highly uncertain and usually declines rapidly after the first few weeks, Narayanan said. One contracting solution to bridge the divide between studios... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
a star. Elite reviewers—a Yelp-awarded certification—have nearly double the impact of other reviewers. In another study looking at movie reviews, Luca found that consumer reviews could correctly predict expert reviews 85 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
mentions a tireless vigilante: the Punisher. What is the motive behind Marvel’s decision to begin producing its own films? Creative control and a greater portion of the potential profits. When we came out of bankruptcy seven years ago we determined that View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
Sharks have been stigmatized on screen for decades, from the 1975 movie Jaws, in which a gigantic great white shark terrorizes a resort island off the coast of Massachusetts, to the 2013 movie Sharknado, in... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring Claire Friedman...
productions including the MTV Movie Awards, an upcoming concert special for Fox, and Dwayne Johnson's Rock the Troops. I'm also serving as the Executive in Charge of our Lip Sync Battle Franchise. How has having an MBA impacted your... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports