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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
historical development not unlike the advent of television, which did not eclipse the movie industry, radio, or print, for that matter. So we can expect to keep our books around for a while? Certainly. In terms of dollars, the number of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
executive coach who has garnered plaudits from numerous corporate leaders and from celebrities such as Larry King, Woody Allen, and David Letterman (“he’s as good as Houdini”). With a Ph.D. in social psychology, Randal is a singer-songwriter who plays five instruments.... 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... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
her senior year of high school. She recalls being one of about 80 women in a class of 800—and one with the least amount of work experience. "I had worked summers at an ad agency writing copy for Columbia Pictures. I made up a lot of corny View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
you enjoy them so much." Kraus talks about the movie The Bucket List and the character played by Jack Nicholson, whose sole goal was professional success. The character played by Morgan Freeman was focused on being a good family man.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
Jetta ads use real-time crashes to emphasize the car’s safety. How would you respond to critics? The two permissible ways to demonstrate safety in commercials in the past involved crash dummies or showing a car weaving to avoid an obstacle. But in 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
- 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
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
that occurs when group members reflect seems integral to the creative process." Sometimes, literally sleeping on an idea —perhaps dreaming about it — is enough to provide the necessary perspective and get a group moving from divergence to convergence. Something as... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 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
- 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
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
Cohen's revolutionary program BitTorrent, which makes it possible to transfer very large files, such as movies, at a high speed over the Internet. The program, which is available for free over the Internet, is used for peer-to-peer sharing of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2020
- Blog Post
A PRIDE Farewell
like the Back to School 80s Party, National Coming Out Day MyTakes, World AIDS Day movie screening, and February’s Love at HBS Portrait Project. And continued our partnership with other under-represented minority (URM) clubs through the... View Details
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
number of Hollywood studios struck advertising deals with News Corp, MySpace's owner, including several who crafted profile pages featuring movie characters. I don't think News Corp really minds MySpace's racy image. We asked John... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
Struggle is an experience we instinctively avoid, looking for any way to minimize the hard work and pain involved in getting what we want. And yet—nearly every book we read and movie we watch involves someone struggling mightily to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
to friends. The case is about the marketers' decisions regarding what to do with these films: They could put them on DVDs, or run them in movie theaters before feature films, or do any number of other things. Q: What's the takeaway 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