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06 Oct 2016
News

Drone Racing League Signs ESPN Deal

property and sport and building the global audience for it.” The article notes that Horbaczewski’s background in film and media has helped him build a made-for-TV experience. But the ESPN deal, he says, turned on the strength of the... View Details

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Nathan Lasche

Nathan interned in Product Management at Amazon and was the Co-President of the HBS TechMedia club. Prior to HBS, he spent two years in Uganda starting the Clinton Foundation HIV / AIDS Initiative’s country office, worked in feature film... View Details

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

At General Motors' Car Assembly Plant in Wilmington, DE, there is a film that managers like to show when times get tough. Dating to 1991, the film opens with a GM executive saying that the plant will be... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

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

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

07 Feb 2005
What Do You Think?

If You Blink, Will You Miss?

extensive research, observation, and practice. For example, a marriage counselor, by breaking down films of couples talking with each other, carefully categorizing behavior patterns, and doing this for years, has prepared himself (and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2025
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

conspiracy, wild exaggeration, and untethered embellishment. The image of Marcus portrayed by Kirk Douglas in the film version of his life still dominates most evocations of the man, for good or ill. And these days, reactions to the book... View Details

24 Nov 2014
News

New York Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS

York Regional Chair James Dinan (MBA 1985) and Regional Chair Thai Lee (MBA 1985). Two inspiring new films – My HBS and A Vision for the Future – highlighted the impact of the School and its faculty and alumni on the major challenges... View Details

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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03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

films featuring BMWs. In the summer of 2001, the company recorded 9 million downloads. These 5 aspects show increasing levels of effective engagement in creating social meaning and identity, Deighton suggests, noting that the first 2... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

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Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Course . Film directed by Richard Bagley, produced by Bill Buckley, presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, Radcliffe College, 1958. 31 Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Catalogue,... View Details

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

Breakthroughs faculty draw on a broad range of cases to address decisions faced by senior leaders of science-based organizations. Consider Kodak and the digital revolution. "Kodak saw that film was going to be outmoded, but it wasn't... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

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The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation | Information Technology

headquarters, filming the company’s culture and meetings. Some subjects, like an AI Factory, are simply better seen than described. The multimedia approach here was critical to accelerating the learning curve—what could have been a dense... View Details

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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

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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

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

smile. ZMET, which is patented, grew out of his interests in anthropology, photography and cognitive neuroscience. It was sparked, in part, by a trip to Nepal and India ten years ago. On his travels, he presented villagers with plastic cameras and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 May 2018
Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

information should be shared inside the organization? 2. Do we have a choice? A recent example suggests that the disclosure debate might well be extended to information that generally has been considered off-limits: compensation data. Recently, View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Theater Foundation, the nation’s largest modern dance organization, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. He has also been a board member of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Sundance Institute, and The Public Theater. Raymond J. McGuire... View Details

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

Working PapersThe 'Thin Film of Gold': Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries Authors:Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick Abstract This paper asks whether developing countries can reap credibility gains from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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