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- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm that employs much of the town,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
disc and digital technologies hadn't even been invented when I joined the company." With that experience under his belt, McGee will embark on an entirely new adventure when he joins the HBS faculty in fall 2013 as a senior lecturer. "In a way, my work for HBO and in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
represents a growing trend or an unsettling blip, but one thing is certain: As many changes as there have been in the film industry, more are sure to come as technology alters the way movies are made and how we watch them. The movies are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
case? One of the cases I wrote is about BMW Films’ award-winning marketing campaign. These were eight beautiful short films by famous directors, each less than ten minutes long, stuck on a corner of the Internet. Trailers for them on... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
A Vision for the Earth
Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011) is a retired colonel with the US Air Force and former NASA astronaut. He has piloted the Space Shuttle and logged more than 200 days aboard the International Space Station, where he conducted a wide range of scientific experiments and helped... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
Apkon: With Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg, celebrating the Jacob Burns Film Center's 10th anniversary. Stephen Apkon’s first movie memory is a little hazy. He’s pretty sure it was Mary Poppins, showing as the first half of a drive-in... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
about these issues.” WuDunn and Kristof won’t deny their role in inspiring action through their extensive reporting on poverty, oppression, and the lack of opportunity faced by millions of people worldwide. Just as they did with Half the Sky, the pair spent a year... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
financial services with the Capital Group Companies, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with some HBS friends. A believer since childhood in the power of storytelling on the big screen, Diamond was struck by the lack... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 Feb 2017
- News
How Michael Sheresky Helped Hidden Figures See the Light
Photo via Vanity Fair Photo via Vanity Fair Talent agent Michael Sheresky (MBA 1997) is half of a Hollywood power duo that helped the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures become a box office success. A recent feature in Vanity Fair details... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Education Revolution
COMPTON: Making the case on film that America’s education system is falling short globally. “I don’t even talk about education reform any more, I talk about education revolution,” documentary filmmaker and venture capitalist Bob Compton... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Putting a spell on theatergoers
Alan Horn (MBA 1971) has brought a touch of magic to the big screen and record-breaking numbers to the bottom line as chairman of Walt Disney Studios and former president and chief operating officer of Warner Bros. Entertainment. At Disney, he oversees worldwide... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Narrative Arc
RIGHT AT HOME For Ty Kim, a long career in journalism and filmmaking driven by the power of story (Photo: Christina Gandolfo) When Ty Kim (MBA 2000) joined the television news magazine 60 Minutes, the correspondent Ed Bradley gave him a nickname: “He called me... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
eclectic in their alliances, so that they can learn as much as possible about things like technology, procurement, and marketing.” M&M made news recently with its entry into the media business, primarily film production. “I have to tell... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- News
Is This Disney’s Next CEO?
all, turned Disney’s film business into the envy of the industry. Last year, the division earned a record $3 billion profit, the most ever for a Hollywood studio.” The piece opens with a mention of Mayer’s habit of returning to HBS to... 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 Dec 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)
everything starts with a good story. We’re here to help our Hollywood partners succeed in China, which is the second-largest film market in the world. In China, the audience skews younger, and 80 to 90 percent of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
tradeoff between bold commitments rarely leading to success and timid strategies ensuring mere survival. Raynor explains how leaders can resolve the tradeoff and achieve results usually reserved for the few as they reduce the risks they must accept. The Presidents on... 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
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Educating the next generation of filmmakers
Film producer Dan Lin (MBA 1999) likes to create hero stories that inspire and entertain children and their families. The producer of The Lego Movie is now teaching Chinese filmmakers how to tell their own stories. (Published November... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Last Look - September 2007
well.” Stephenson added that Section C sponsored the launch, which more than 300 classmates witnessed, and that she was asked to film it with her 16mm Bolex camera. This photo and others showing the launch are in the 1975 Annual Report,... View Details