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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
What’s On?
KILAR After working at Amazon.com for nine years, in 2007 Jason Kilar (MBA ’97) became CEO of Hulu, the service that brings popular television programming and movies to computers via high-quality streaming video. Hulu, free and... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Josh Singer won’t tell me where he keeps his Oscar. In 2016, he won Hollywood’s most coveted award for cowriting Spotlight, the movie about Boston Globe journalists uncovering the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal that also took home... View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
Eric d'Arbeloff by Jill Radsken All of Eric d'Arbeloff's (MBA 1993) movies have heart. But the film producer and copresident of Roadside Attractions, a distribution company that counts Super Size Me, Winter's Bone, and Biutiful among its... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
capacity she helped lead the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program. As a newspaper industry analyst at DLJ early in your career, did you anticipate the industry’s decline? I put a “sell” on newspapers in 1988 when I saw threats... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
for soccer fans, FirstRowSports. The NFL’s as-yet-unnamed foray into online streaming will test the waters with an October 25 game only available online. The cable and telecom industry has taken note, evidenced by its heavy lobbying... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
industry to the production of mechanical (“dumb”) and electronic (“smart”) beds. Eventually, he expects to develop an entire suite of compact hospital room furnishings. The Alumni New Venture Contest was created with two goals in mind: to... 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
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
data freely available. There aren't many industries that publish sales numbers on a weekly basis, for everyone to see, but the movie industry does. And when I started to... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
Serrena Iyer (MBA 2018) Working in the entertainment industry is a dream come true for Serrena Iyer, who after graduating from HBS landed at the aptly named DreamWorks Animation as senior manager of strategy and operations. It’s a passion... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
volunteer in Africa before attending HBS; thinking back to that time made him want to do "something useful and outrageous" once again. Particularly concerned about violence among young people, Seder decided that he wanted to "make a commitment to at-risk youth." At the... 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
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
industry entirely. Instead, the Miami native went home after graduation to join an upstart agency that seemed interested in doing things a little differently. At the time, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) had a regional focus, with 55... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
highly visible undertakings such as the $4 billion Jurong Island complex, in which seven offshore islands were linked with imported landfill to form a huge new industrial area for land-strapped Singapore. Less apparent, but no less... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
Heyman: hitting 317 screens. As a student at HBS, movie buff Matthew Heyman (MBA '93) used to ask classmates what the theaters were like in their hometowns. When two classmates from Mexico City told him the theaters there were terrible,... View Details
- 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
- 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 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
uses ratings, and how they are used. The case concerns the strategic options facing a new entrant hoping to exploit the potential crack in the dominance of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P. Becker was spurred to write it when he realized the bond ratings 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