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- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Curing Parkinson’s Disease
properties of a virus known as M13—properties first recognized by Solomon’s mother, a leading Alzheimer’s researcher—and produce a medication to treat diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimers’s. As Solomon tells Palreman: “A single compound that effectively treats... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel
Like countless others in the summer of 2023, HBS professor Elie Ofek went to the theater to see the blockbuster film Barbie and found himself enveloped by the pink-drenched marketing blitz that had all but taken over the world. To Ofek, who teaches in the Marketing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
professional spaces.” Bull’s-eye: “Turns out I’m a sharpshooter. In 2014 I went shooting for the first time and hit every single clay disk. The funny thing is, I haven’t gone since.” Blockbuster fun: “No one looks at me and thinks,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
responsibility (CSR) strategy. From interviewing scores of employees and executives, it was clear that storytelling was somewhere at the core of it all, she says. Take, for example, Marvel’s 2018 blockbuster Black Panther. The film was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
Third, a subcommittee examined the structure and approach of the Club Officers’ Roundtable held at HBS each spring and recommended several changes, including a name change to Clubs Leadership Conference. The HBS Global Leadership Forum has built amazing momentum... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
blockbuster projects we just can't seem to get enough of. Your book's thesis suggests that, in the business of entertainment, big moves are the best moves. That's right. Many people think that making many small bets is playing it safe.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Sports in the Classroom
Football (both kinds) is a learning tool in HBS classrooms. Professor John Quelch has produced a paper case and video series on soccer powerhouse and blockbuster brand Real Madrid that features interviews with players and management as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
the consumer.'" Odd as it sounds, the customer has not been a historical focus for the movie theater industry. As Ramsey points out, the business got going in the 1930s and 1940s, when it was typical for one print of a movie to be licensed in a city. If you were lucky... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
supplemental video content online to those visiting theaters as well as an opportunity to watch the same movie with friends and family later at home? Or building online/offline communities around local theaters in addition to competing with food courts and restaurants?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
blockbusters may now be key ingredients for the impact we aim to have as leaders." —Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein (MBA/JD 2002, DBA 2013), Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment, by Anita... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, explains a powerful truth about the entertainment world: Building a business around blockbuster products—which are expensive to produce and market—is the surest path to long-term... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
most innovative, successful biotech firm ever, Amgen led its industry in revenue and sales growth in 2007. Binder, the firm’s CEO during 1988–2000, describes Amgen’s climb to success, revealing the highs and lows in the race to develop View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
high-tech companies know that they can’t get the best talent without providing this kind of flexibility. And some of those self-selected, self-organized projects might even result in a blockbuster product or line of business. For 3M, it... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
artists, go to the art fairs with a curator who points out the rising stars, the blockbuster hits, etc, guided tours of exhibitions in museums with the curators. And that was, to some extent, just social, but many of us did become very... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
companies, who were looking for blockbusters for large markets,” recalls Nate Boaz (MBA 2006), Prize4Life cofounder and board member, who is now managing director of talent strategy at Accenture in Atlanta. The meeting yielded more... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
constantly have to do." Which HBS case do you remember most, and why? "I find myself constantly thinking back to Professor Anita Elberse's SMICI class on Warner Bros. The main lesson I learned from that case was to not shy away from making View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
there and never knowing what’s around the corner.” Speaking of gold, the financial reward an independent producer can expect to see from a project varies greatly, with up-front freelance fees ranging from $150,000 to as high as $5 million for a View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
knowledge to other medical areas as well. As for public policy and business, the desire to reduce medical and health-care costs and the rewards to be reaped from the development of blockbuster therapies will further drive markets forward.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
pharmaceutical companies focused their R&D on treatments for common illnesses — such as diabetes and high cholesterol — an approach that resulted in the development of blockbuster drugs. We now recognize that diseases are far more complex... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Action Plan: Come as You Are
stop of the blockbuster exhibition, Treasures of Tutankhamun, was at Washington, DC’s National Gallery of Art, where Basseches, then age 14, was dazzled by the gold statue of the boy king, the carved alabaster lions, and the elaborate... View Details