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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
of the issues near and dear to the Class of 2009. The event, which organizers thought might be a first in HBS history (or at least the first in quite some time) included complimentary beverages and enough popcorn to fuel a movie marathon.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
Unlike the culture-shocked Russian who defected to America in the movie Moscow on the Hudson, Lithuanian-born Herman Safin arrived at HBS already familiar with the ways of the West. Beginning with his high-school years in the former... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 08 May 2025
- Blog Post
Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)
and I spent our summers building businesses so we could buy Starbucks beverages or movie tickets without asking for money from our parents. Our most successful endeavor was a dog-walking business—we had rewards programs, fancy... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
new movie studio to a major technology company. We analyzed publicly available movie data using our newly learned Python and SQL skills. Our second project was the capstone project, and I worked with... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
vineyards, and immersing myself in local culture, which was definitely facilitated by a motorcycle. But then what happened was I went to go see a movie called The Highest Pass, And The Highest Pass was a View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
very powerful people, including Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein. Kroll's work even inspired the 2000 movie Proof of Life. Nearly a decade after the View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings determined that a 10% improvement to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
The CG process at Pixar was based on the use and value of integration because that process followed a simple principle: no part of a movie is finally done until the entire movie is all done. Anything and... 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
- 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 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
Jurassic Park movie five times. I think it allows my brain to go someplace it never [otherwise] goes.” Alter ego: Broadway musical actress. “My ninth-grade choir teacher, Ms.Timberlake, somehow raised enough money to take a few of us from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
intelligence firm he started in the early 1970s was just a decade later digging up assets hidden by powerful individuals, including Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein. Kroll’s work even inspired the 2000 View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
Invasion! surpassed the 1 million download mark. The short also won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding interactive film and was optioned as a full-length animated movie. (The movie will not involve VR, a testament to the studio’s focus on... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
books, and movies has increased sharply. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-132.pdf Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration Authors:Mark... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace