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- 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
- 29 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business
Health, Documentary Film, and Social Activism. I studied the potential of documentary film to improve public health and inspire social activism. Gallatin recognized the importance of learning outside the classroom, so I was able to... 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
- 15 Jan 2015
- News
Asia Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
1992). In Mumbai and at each of the subsequent Asia events, 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... 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
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
of companies' innovative portfolios. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-075.pdf Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- August 2023
- Case
Salma Qarnain: Spaceships to Broadway
By: Leslie Perlow, Mel Martin and Hannah Weisman
Salma Qarnain, daughter of Pakistani Muslim immigrants, is an engineer trained at Stanford and MIT. She began her career building spacecrafts but 30 years later finds herself pursuing her calling, acting on Broadway. The case explores Qarnain’s career path, family... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Happiness; Identity; Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Theater Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Talent and Talent Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Aerospace Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Boston; California
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
its own film distribution business with the country's largest theater chain, Regal Entertainment Group. Led by CEO Tom Ortenberg, Open Road Films focuses on independent films... View Details
- 04 Aug 2015
- News
Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Professor C. Fritz Foley, the Andre R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration; Ana Maria Diniz (OPM 36, 2007); and Andre R. Jakurski (MBA 1973), honorary chair of the HBS Campaign and a founding member of the Global Leaders Circle. The inspiring new View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
a new industry. Weeks later, even while struggling to learn some new task in the wee hours of the morning, I would realize what an incredible experience this had become. I went incognito at four of our properties. The cover story was that the View Details
- October 2013
- Case
Rhythm & Blues
By: Willy Shih
The bankruptcy filing of Rhythm & Hues, who received an Oscar for the arresting visual effects in Life of Pi, raised questions about the challenges faced by the firms like it as well as the broader post-production industry. The rapid pace of technology certainly... View Details
Keywords: Post-production; Visual Effects; Digital; Entertainment; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Los Angeles
- June 17, 2016
- Comment
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
By: John A. Quelch
Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of business at least temporarily by a terrorist act. Not far away... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Safety; Public Safety; Brand Attraction; Risk Management; Safe Environment Benefit; Marketing Safety; Global Brands; Advertising; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Crime and Corruption; Customers; Music Entertainment; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Tourism Industry; Travel Industry; United States
Quelch, John A. "Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (June 17, 2016). (Republished by Fortune.com as "What the Orlando Tragedies Can Teach Businesses" on June 20, 2016.)
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Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets
Guftagoo Archives Bollywood and Beyond: Analyzing the Indian Film Industry through Irfan's Guftagoo Interviews is a research database hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. It focuses on evidence from the popular television series... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
the most popular television shows ever. He then joined Warner Bros., greenlighting film projects that included three Batman films, Happy Feet, and one of Hollywood’s biggest sensations, the Harry Potter series. “If one just puts his head... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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 that grew out of the many... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
reported in their recent working paper, "Superstars and Underdogs: An Examination of the Long-Tail Phenomenon in Video Sales," and have significant implications not only for the types of films studios decide to fund in future,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
of black alumni; an academic symposium in March 2018; a Baker Library exhibit focused on the history of African Americans at HBS and a permanent HBS African American archive at Baker Library; a documentary film featuring prominent... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
The children's classic The Polar Express tells the fanciful story of a young boy's journey to the North Pole on a train filled with chocolate and candy. But when Warner Brothers released a $165 million computer-animated version of the tale, many critics described the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel