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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

February 2015 (Revised April 2018)
Supplement

Dalian Wanda Group: The AMC Entertainment Acquisition (B)

By: Willy Shih

When Dalian Wanda Group of China announced its plan to acquire the AMC Entertainment theatrical exhibition chain in the United States, many people in the U.S were mystified. Unlike China where theatrical exhibition was experiencing rapid growth, the U.S. market was... View Details

Keywords: AMC Entertainment; Wanda Group; Wang Jianlin; Theater Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; China; United States

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01 Dec 2013
News

14 for '14

above the fray." —John Piscitello (MBA 1998), film composer, No Place On Earth and The Short Game Andrew Tobias Photo courtesy of Andrew Tobias "Watch out for Republicans who would have Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Dwight... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Government; Information; Retail Trade

29 Nov 2017
Blog Post

HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise

film review, scouting reports, travel, community events...it adds up quickly, and it’s not just during season. We trained year-round. Add college courses to the mix, and you are looking at 70-80 hour workweeks, with at least 25% of the... View Details

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

making great films. No one voice dominated, as often happened at other studios. Another major shortcoming of the diagram in figure 1-1 is that it fails to convey how collaborative the process of making a CG film at Pixar actually was.... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation

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Drone Policy | About

and University Policy on Photographing and Filming on Harvard Property . Some state laws also place limits on audio recording, with the potential for criminal and civil penalties for violations, for example, Massachusetts General Law... 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

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Success Academy Charter Schools | Information Technology

Success Academy’s adoption of business principals — high expectations, aggressive testing, spirit of innovation, and experimentation — contribute to positive outcomes for students. Professor Robin Greenwood, on location in Harlem for the View Details

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

through the lens of "sabermetrics" to compete with much better-funded organizations, achieving success with a relatively small investment. Writing recently in The New York Times, Cade Massey and Bob Tedeschi speculate on whether the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

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

Keywords: incarceration; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

explains how management challenges differ for proprietary and shared platform during subsequent life-cycle stages: network mobilization and platform maturity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-105.pdf Film Rentals and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS Bates, George E. Polaroid Corporation . Harvard Business School Case 246-006, 1948. Bernier, Brenda. “Polaroid... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

turning our considerable energies more and more to giving back. Typically, much effort is original and entrepreneurial: starting film schools for inner-city youth or tackling the problem of what to do with eighteen-year-olds emerging from... View Details

Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

of Fujifilm, a company approaching its 75th anniversary. In Fujifilm: A Second Foundation, a case coauthored with HBS associate professor Giovanni Gavetti and Yaichi Aoshima of Hitotsubashi University, Tripsas presents the instructive dilemma faced by Fujifilm as its... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

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What We Do | Research Associates

was a big “Eco-Imagination” convention in Los Angeles that showcased some of GE’s products, including the new locomotive. The two faculty members coauthoring the case couldn’t go to California, so they sent me out with a video crew to View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Understanding the Digital Frontier

Blendtec hit on the idea of showing the industrial-strength power of the product by filming the blender munching everything from rake handles to an iPhone. The videos racked up 60 million hits on YouTube, and the company’s CEO was soon... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

individuals. All forecasting is a case in point. When the application becomes personal, it raises many questions that will have to be addressed. In this case, should we be careful what we wish for? What do you think? Original Article In 2002, the View Details