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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
Heyman: hitting 317 screens. As a student at HBS, movie buff Matthew Heyman (MBA '93) used to ask classmates what the theaters were like in their hometowns. When two classmates from Mexico City told him the theaters there were terrible, Heyman sensed an opportunity,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Aussie start-up Tiggly guns for $200,000 US fundraise
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Up Side Story: HBS Show a Sold-Out Success
in love while entertaining the sold-out audience with humor, song, and dance. Each year since 1974, a group of hardworking students has pooled its writing, acting, and production skills to stage a Broadway-style performance that takes... View Details
- 25 Mar 2010
- News
Undercover Boss
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Checking in with One Championship
“successful” on paper but not in his heart. After realizing his real passion was for martial arts, Sityodtong launched Evolve MMA, a mixed martial arts gym with three branches in Singapore. Out of that enterprise came One Championship, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
The rise of the "second screen"—watching TV while also surfing on smartphones or tablets—would seem to be bad for advertisers, stealing precious eyeballs from their pitches. Not so, says Thales Teixeira, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit. In a recent... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
Jennifer Lee Koss by Maureen Harmon For weeks in 2012, Jennifer Lee Koss (MBA 2008) and Kena Paranjape held early- morning meetings at La Bohème coffee shop in Toronto. The discussion centered on a possible business venture. The meeting spot made sense; it was near... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Pyramid Scheme
(MBA ’03) told the Boston Globe (September 22, 2004). DuPlessie, who studied mechanical engineering at MIT, launched TOMB after gaining experience working on projects at Disney and Universal Studios. Boston-based TOMB, the first project of the new View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
WHAT’S THE BUZZ? EARLY TASTE In early December, the School’s Doctoral Programs hosted an interactive poster session in the Baker Library|Bloomberg Center that showcased several students’ early-stage research. One finding? In a sample of product development teams, agile... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
The Dark Side
About a year ago, David Yelland (AMP 164, 2003) left the editorship of the British tabloid The Sun to join the PR firm Weber Shandwick (WS). It’s a familiar career switch that PR-averse journalists disparage as going over to “the dark side,” The Independent (July 4,... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
Fred Newman remembers a particularly chilly HBS cold call. Completely unprepared to open a finance case, he used a different talent to get through it. Newman did his impression of a fly and buzzed out of his seat and around the Aldrich classroom until he hit the back... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible for them. In telling the... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
draws the most viewers and revenue (as opposed to just drawing buzz). And everyone in the entertainment industry will keep trying to understand how to best leverage social media—or control it when fans' and critics' reactions aren't... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Linking Donors, Students
Lee Fellowship recipient Shamika Lee (MBA ’08) spoke at the MBA Fellowship Dinner in mid-April, an annual event where fellowship students and donors get to know each other. “On behalf of all the students here tonight, let me say that we do not take your investment... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Can't Knock the Hustle
POSEUR: A "living statue" mysteriously materialized A guerrilla-marketing campaign designed to promote a book about rapper and entertainment mogul Jay-Z became the subject of a recent EC case by HBS professor Anita Elberse. The... View Details
- 28 Feb 2020
- News
Kelly Campbell Named President of Hulu
Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Walt Disney Co. announced that it was promoting Kelly Campbell (MBA 2005) to president of the streaming service Hulu, the Los Angeles Times reports. With 30 million subscribers and a host of network television... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 13 Dec 2012
- News
Behind the Concert for Sandy Relief: The Robin Hood Foundation
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jackie Adams
competitors, and all three organizations saw news as a public trust. But by the mid-1980s, the networks had become divisions of large corporations, and profitability and entertainment value took center stage.” She notes that the advent of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
veteran of the company. “It’s a matter of thinking about how to take all of this wonderful entertainment and news programming and make it available to different consumers at different price points. That’s an endlessly challenging puzzle.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment