Movies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

appealing tool for more traditional distributors and movie studios, because the platform can make content available to stream on any device—smartphone, tablet, computer, connected television—anywhere in the world, in HD quality. “The... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

on average, firms' self-reported anticorruption efforts reflect real efforts to combat corruption and are not merely cheap talk. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2229039 When to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Claire Freidman

industries. Plus, I have to admit that I'm looking forward to working on a movie lot. How has HBS prepared you for your current role & your long term career? I was able to take advantage of a lot of great resources at HBS to prepare... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Technology

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

Facebook will automatically display an advertisement for a substitute nanny who has worked for four close friends and who can step in and pick up my child. Granted, this has the heavy feel of the movie "Minority Report" taken to... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

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Class Notes - Alumni

HBS Magazine HBS Magazine Class Notes Current Issue: June 2025 Gerry Berstel with 1881 elephant-shaped NJ building "Lucy." See the MBA 1977C notes. Bill Ross (right) with his new husband, and partner of 20 years, Jorge Ayala. See the MBA 1975A notes. Doug and Jeannette... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

The Show Goes On

improve the sightlines from the sides of the auditorium. I hope our marketing department does a good job of filling those extra seats. Do you have a background in show biz? I loved the movies when I was growing up in Virginia, and was... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest

management: “I was general manager at the Marriott in Phuket, Thailand, during the 2004 tsunami. We were fortunate enough to be able to set up a triage center to help others in the area. I had nightmares for a couple of weeks afterward.” 50th birthday party: A View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Hospitality

18 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Finding Your Family at HBS

watching a movie amongst friends sharing some wine or whiskey. We’ve laughed together, we’ve cried together, we’ve been the hug or shoulder that you sometimes need to get through a three-case day or midterm. Like gay communities... View Details

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

There's a famous line from the movie The Godfather, which is often repeated in corporate settings: "This is business, not personal." Ironically, though, that statement is actually bad business advice. During the Consortium for Operational... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Sep 2014
News

Feedback

supplemental video content online to those visiting theaters as well as an opportunity to watch the same movie with friends and family later at home? Or building online/offline communities around local theaters in addition to competing... View Details

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IFC: LA/Hollywood

Where can I find entertainment & media industry/market analysis, company data and news? OVERVIEWS AND ANALYSIS IBISWorld
Research reports on a wide range of industries, including Cable Networks, Television Production, and View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment

start a network from scratch?" In a stellar career that has also included stints running several movie studios and a national theater chain (as well as leading the initial U.S. rollout of Sony's PlayStation), Sagansky has always had his... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Arts, Entertainment

01 Oct 2001
News

Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing

of nature, he describes himself simply as an "organizer by instinct." As a high-school student, for example, he rallied his classmates to raise money to build a private chemistry lab — the lab at school had limited hours —by showing rented View Details

Keywords: Government

08 May 2012
News

Screen Saver

Apkon: With Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg, celebrating the Jacob Burns Film Center's 10th anniversary. Stephen Apkon’s first movie memory is a little hazy. He’s pretty sure it was Mary Poppins, showing as the first half of a drive-in... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Films & TV | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Visit & Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search U.S. Steel Resources Films & TV Films & TV By the mid-1950s, U.S. Steel had produced sixteen films seen by millions of Americans in View Details

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

business." "The statistics are correct," said Raj Kapoor (HBS MBA '96), managing director at Mayfield, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. "It's an extremely hit-driven business that's becoming more and more like the View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

22 Oct 2018
News

Capital Murder

sister cities. They’re both industry towns, and in many ways the marketing campaign for a movie or a television show is not unlike a campaign for a political candidate. You’re trying to inform people, arm them with information, remind... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1999
News

Moir Donelson

West Point, where he learned the Cadet Prayer: "Lord give me strength to choose the harder right over the easier wrong." He calls upon this strength frequently. Back in Chicago during a college break, for example, an old friend sneaked into a View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2014
News

All For One

end of the studio’s decade-long string of successes that included Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo—each movie breaking new ground in its own way, pushing the boundaries in terms of both technology and storytelling. It was... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2003
News

The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case

pop-up ads on most sites. Instead, its “immersive” advertising was more like the product placements common to television and movies — sponsors’ products or messages appear in the context of the site’s games and activities.) As the class... View Details