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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
executive to New York playwright has had a number of surprises. He left the corporate world after successful stints with Coca-Cola and American Express to help take care of his ill father and never went back. Turning to his creative side, he began writing for View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
about generating “tens of thousands of ideas” for each film, and “allowing” creativity to burst forth. She left excited, wanting to know more about how all that creative energy was harnessed to create one hit film after another. So... View Details
- Web
A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “All [employees] will regard themselves as labor in the sense of having as their common purpose learning new things and... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
In the ‘Spotlight’
spec for the TV series “The West Wing,” which was passed from a friend to one of the show’s producers. And with that, Singer’s new role as a screenwriter was launched. Following “The West Wing,” Singer wrote the screenplay for the film... 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
- Web
Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS Polaroid Corporation Annual Reports, 1937-1952 Annual reports typically include a letter to shareholders written by Edwin... 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
- 21 Nov 2008
- News
No More Squawking about the Campus Turkey
charm wore off as complaints of turkey aggression mounted. Unprovoked, she chased faculty, students, kids, and even an intrepid reporter, who caught the episode on film that quickly found its way — duhh! — to YouTube. Wild turkeys, it... View Details
- Profile
Annora Wang
What was the shape of your career before pursuing your MBA? I worked in finance, on Wall Street. I enjoyed analysis, but wasn’t always interested in the types of business I got involved in. As an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, I had been... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
HBS's Educational Technology Group. “The idea that you might offshore the reading of radiology films would have been unthinkable 25 years ago.” Each team assessed the potential offshorability of 20 occupations. (The positions of financial... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
percent over the 2002-2007 period. Since 2000, the annual release of new albums has more than doubled, and worldwide feature film production since 2003 is up by more than 30 percent. How markets for complementary goods (such as concerts,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 03 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
The HBS Show Must Go On
working in crisis mode, coming together to “make it work” in whatever way possible. We created an environment where we could not judge anyone for throwing out a cooky idea because we did not have time to filter our own ideas. It was so rewarding to hear the laughs of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
The Show Goes On
writing scripts. After I worked at Bain for several years, a friend and I did just that. We sold a television pilot, “The Club,” that will never see the light of day. But we also sold a small-budget film called The Closet that’s... View Details
- November 2007 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Tom Cruise
By: Anita Elberse and Peter Stone
In November 2006, Harry Sloan, chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) offers movie star Tom Cruise and his business partner Paula Wagner a chance to run United Artists (UA), a dormant studio within MGM's portfolio. Just over two months earlier, Viacom... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Talent and Talent Management; Film Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Partners and Partnerships; Value Creation; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Elberse, Anita, and Peter Stone. "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Tom Cruise." Harvard Business School Case 508-057, November 2007. (Revised March 2010.)
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Reinvention of Kodak The Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) was a name familiar to most Americans. The company had dominated the film and photography industry through most of the 20th Century and was known for making affordable cameras (and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
presents the instructive dilemma faced by Fujifilm as its core film business vanishes in the wake of advances made in digital technology. “Fuji experienced the same situation that buggy whip manufacturers confronted when cars were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
plan might entail setting up a car wash, a truck haulage company, or a fast-food van. “PEP is a terrific program, and I would love to get even more involved,” Edis says. To that end, Edis, whose family has been affected by incarceration, is working to put together a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mohit Bathija
want to see a day where award-winning films on India can no longer show children suffering and dying due to extreme poverty. I want to see a day where revered Indian celebrities and... View Details
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
Lincoln Center is mind-boggling in its scope and prestige. Eleven resident organizations in arts and education share the campus: the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the... View Details