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- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
financial reasons,” says Ortiz-Monasterio. “To put it in Hollywood terms, one could say this is a happy ending. But it is not an ending. We’re just through our first 25 years!” View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
Lagos, in December to celebrate outstanding leadership across the Nigerian business community. The HBSA of Nigeria’s Annual BlackTie Gala featured all the glamour of a Hollywood awards night, including a “Walk of Fame” with 30 giant stars... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
working on and believe in what you’re doing because you’re pushing a boulder up a hill every single day.” When Teddy Zee (MBA 1984) went to Hollywood over twenty years ago, MBAs were a rare commodity. “We were the new toys,” he recalls of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
added to a distinguished writing career that includes decades of articles and several books: Naming Names, a 1982 National Book Award–winner about the McCarthy era and the Hollywood blacklist; Kennedy Justice, on Robert Kennedy’s years as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
analysis but by values. Chainsaw Al Dunlap, a real person with a Hollywood moniker, told us that a dollar earned by killing a job was just as valuable as one earned by producing a valuable product, and Wall Street was seduced, even though... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
linked to the annual, star-studded Sundance event. “There was no secret formula,” he says. “We just created a supportive space where black artists can mingle, shine, and learn about financing, production, marketing, and distribution. We also reached out to the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
where you stand on the political aisle, the acrimony inherent in a two-party system was disheartening at times. So if politics was my first love, entertainment and media is my second—specifically film and television. I was drawn to that world, and began to realize that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
teaching kids. We need to teach them a little bit of cyber hygiene.” Thomas, the cybersecurity veteran who had some bad news about your credit card in the beginning of our story, has an easy way to spot new employees. “They run,” he says. Primed by View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 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
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
those paths would entail. There’s a failed Hollywood screenwriter, a washed-up NHL hockey player, and an under-accomplished woman who married the wrong man—all at the brink of life’s fragile breaking point. There’s a small-town braggart... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
adopted home state of Montana, Siebel had spent around $30 million of his own money to “un-sell” the drug, hiring highly regarded Hollywood directors to create graphic, disturbing commercials depicting its harrowing physical and... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
stuff, Singer admits. “You never want it to end, because you’re convinced it’s never going to happen again.” That’s the ephemeral nature of the business, it seems. Everyone in Hollywood is in motion, working on a project or looking for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
probably win some guests over with your pet-friendly policy, too. People love their pets. When you’re friendly to their pets, it’s like being friendly to their kids. When we opened the Hotel Monaco in Portland, Oregon, we had searchlights and a red carpet — it was like... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
one assumes her Rolodex is as star-studded as a Hollywood blockbuster, but far more enduring in value. Globalization Looking over the last quarter-century, globalization is another powerful trend that has engaged the talents of the Class... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
(MBA 1989) (St. Martin's Griffin) The story of a French woman perfumer who escapes from Europe at the beginning of World War II and seeks (and finds) success in Los Angeles as a perfumer and fashion designer to the Hollywood elite. Lenses... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
companies, like Master Class. Duolingo had popularized this idea of high-quality learning but through the use of technology, really lowering the price point and adding a layer of fun and gamification. So what we did was we started working with these master accent... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
talk, but then you had Hollywood coming there. Now that several decades have passed, people really want to come out, they realized the statute of limitations has passed them. Many of these guys have spent half their lives in prison. And... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
better to the less filtered, more candid style of YouTubers versus the polished personas of Hollywood celebrities. Further evidence of a changing of the guard was seen last year, when Disney, one of the oldest of the old-line media... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
changes in mental health in the workplace and in stigma, more broadly. We're seeing so many more Hollywood celebrities and stars speaking out. There is much more coverage in the media. And much more increasingly positive coverage in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
from a franchise on the brink of leaving town in 1992 to toast of the town in 2010 is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. And indeed, when the lanky, loquacious executive talks about his lifelong history with the team, his reminiscences are... View Details