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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sands of Time
Well before he arrived at HBS, Michel Ray de Carvalho (MBA 1970) had led a charmed life. But it was only destined to get better. Already a veteran child actor at 17, he was tapped to play one of Peter O'Toole's young Arab sidekicks in the View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
@Soldiers Field
IT’S A WRAP Above: In December, Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih (with Harvard Business Publishing’s Dave Di Iulio) filmed a video on the topic of digital transformation at the Klarman Studio soundstage—one of three studios... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
education, leveraging "Nollywood"—Nigeria's film industry, ranked third largest in the world—to promote a culture of saving and investing among Nigerians. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
A NEW VIEW: Slums occupy valuable real estate in India. Photo courtesy HBS India Research Center Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in the 2008 Oscar-winning film... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
stands out as the rare commodity that remains as lucrative in the good times as the bad, since we don’t switch off the radio—or stop watching the films or TV shows that license music and generate revenues—when the economy sours. The last... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
bar and later ran a liquor store. By the time Horn was in the ninth grade, they had moved eight times. While their finances weren’t stable, the family was built on a solid foundation of love. After graduating from Union College, Horn... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Distributing dreams with a curatorial eye
Eric d'Arbeloff (MBA 1993) plays a leading role in bringing independent films to wider audiences. In 2004 he launched his film distribution company, Roadside Attractions. Among its successes are Super Size... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- News
Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
Lysinger (MBA 2013). Two inspiring new films – My HBS and The Case for the Future – highlighted the impact of the School and its faculty and alumni on the major challenges facing business and society today. “When you look at what Harvard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
open systems that can be leveraged by anyone will thrive over closed, proprietary systems; I think of the United States as an open system in that sense." One of Ranadivé's earliest dreams was to study at MIT, which he learned of through a documentary View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Sail Away
events, such as Rio de Janeiro during carnaval, Sydney on New Year’s Eve, and Cannes during its film festival. “The beauty behind this product is that it is a global product,” said David Robb (MBA ’93), chairman of Utopia Residences. The... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Lin (MBA 1999) is the Hollywood producer behind the hit films Sherlock Holmes, Gangster Squad, and the Lego Movie. Lin’s most recent film, Lego Batman, opened last... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
Grace Ng (MBA 2019) Grace Ng (MBA 2019) Drawing on her left- and right-brain strengths, Grace Ng (MBA 2019) double-majored in economics and film at Rice University. “That might seem unusual to some, but I found having these two interests... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
2021 Kevin Chenault planned to focus on a film production company that brings underrepresented voices to life, but changed direction following the murder of George Floyd and subsequent demonstrations. He and his brother, Ken Chenault Jr.... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
founded Alibris, an e-commerce company that sells used, rare, and out-of-print books. We failed, a lot—HBS has a case on our more interesting failures. Our biggest setback came early. We planned to launch our commercial website and close our first real View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
world-class athletes. Successful marketing of the Olympics - which is essential for financing the Games - depends on the Olympic movement's continued integrity, reputation for excellence, and "goodwill." That inherent value, Frazier... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
designed to descend a maximum of 1,000 meters. Could the company build a vehicle capable of diving more than 10 times deeper, Vescovo asked. “That’s something I had wanted to do for many years,” says Lahey. “But without someone who’s going to View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
three MIT scientists founded E Ink in 1997. “I was the business guy,” says Wilcox, who over time has held senior leadership roles at the company in areas ranging from sales and marketing to finance to R&D. Twelve years later, the company... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
were to do in the section, from smoking a cigar in Finance class to borrowing that massaging seat cover for a day. I believe that our BGIE professor, Willis Emmons, who attended the event, even offered as an auction item the performance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
finance ministry, a more organized congress, and greater budgetary discipline. Soon, the inflation rate began to tumble from highs in the thousands to single digits—a rate carefully watched from 2003 to 2011 by Brazil's then–central bank... View Details