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- 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,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars
Washington Governor Booth Gardner (MBA ’63), no stranger to the spotlight, admits to being nervous as he walked down the red carpet at this year’s Academy Awards. As the star of a film nominated for Best Short Documentary, he got VIP... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)
learn so much in the process.” Iron in the fire: “My other project is a short mockumentary I wrote and directed, Admissions, that peels back the layers of university admissions in the US, post-affirmative action. The film is currently in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
you going to have your 35-mm film processed? You won't find a Walgreens." To begin a relationship with a new country, Polaroid, the world's largest driver's license producer, often starts with a national identity-card program. In Mexico,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
The Most Powerful Woman in Chinese Entertainment
The Hollywood Reporter scored the first interview with Zhang Wei (MBA 1999), president of the Alibaba Group’s new film division. In a Q&A, Zhang, whom the publication calls “most powerful woman in Chinese entertainment,” shared her vision... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
How to Prepare for Shark Tank
soon as you agreed, you couldn’t talk to anyone about it," Stolar told the BostonInno news website. In fact, after agreeing to appear before the Sharks, the Unshrinkit duo did three months of intensive prep, then flew to Los Angeles for View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
education, leveraging "Nollywood"—Nigeria's film industry, ranked third largest in the world—to promote a culture of saving and investing among Nigerians. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
installations have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; he also received a MacArthur Fellowship. Exhibiting Forgiveness, the feature film that he wrote and directed, premiered at the... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
Blendtec hit on the idea of showing the industrial-strength power of the product by filming the blender munching everything from rake handles to an iPhone. The videos racked up 60 million hits on YouTube, and the company’s CEO was soon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sands of Time
Well before he arrived at HBS, Michel Ray de Carvalho (MBA 1970) had led a charmed life. But it was only destined to get better. Already a veteran child actor at 17, he was tapped to play one of Peter O'Toole's young Arab sidekicks in the View Details