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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Movies That Move People
Alan Horn (MBA 1971) is chairman of the Walt Disney Studios and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, he talks about how the company’s films have the potential to influence audiences worldwide. “Every... 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
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
be represented at the gala. One of this year’s nominees for Best Picture, Winter’s Bone, and Biutiful, nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, are both distributed by Roadside Attractions, cofounded by Eric D’Arbeloff (MBA ’93). A D’Arbeloff production, the 1999... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Dec 2019
- News
Jeff Shell to Become CEO of NBCUniversal
Current chairman of NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment Jeff Shell (MBA 1991) will take over as CEO of the media company on January 1, reports the Los Angeles Times. In a statement to the Times, Brian Roberts, the current CEO of... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
whose first goal, once the film was completed, was to get it into the high-profile Sundance Film Festival, in the hope of finding a distributor. Much to the team’s delight, that goal was achieved when Sony... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
application to the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such as in education curricula and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Tickling the Ivories
KAO: Out of conflict and apparent mistakes, a beautiful, coherent melody. The Economist magazine has called him “Mr. Creativity” and a “serial innovator.” A former keyboard player for Frank Zappa, John Kao (MBA 1982), an HBS faculty member from 1982 to 1996, holds an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
In Baobab Studios’ VR film Invasion!, viewers interact with Chloe, a scared white rabbit that responds to their actions. (courtesy of Baobab Studios) With the promise of mind-boggling , out-of-body experiences, virtual reality is... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Harvard Business Review, Anand Mahindra is vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), a Mumbai-based “confederation” of almost 100 companies with revenues of $6.6 billion and 60,000 employees. A film major at... View Details
- 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. They think that if you're a View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
When did you realize that you wanted to make a career change? (Diogo left a career in management consulting in October 2014 to become founder/executive producer of Adaptation Now, a documentary film project that will tell the stories of... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- News
Promoting Diversity at Sundance and Beyond
and workshops at the annual Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The number of black films showcased at Sundance has since increased from 7 to 39, and Blackhouse has added popular outreach events at the Cannes,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture
around Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, made that particular napkin a challenge, for example. “In first-year Finance at HBS there was a lot of focus on spreadsheets and numbers,” says Hay, who studied communications at UCLA and worked in the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
specific tasks, ranging from building a catapult to safely launch an uncooked egg to filming a music video, in just over two hours. After each task, the teams huddled to discuss what they had learned. The facilitator awarded points for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
event” and “radical change” for the company, Marvel has secured $525 million of nonrecourse debt (its film characters serve as collateral) to produce ten motion pictures. With Paramount as its distributor, Marvel will oversee all other... 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 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
blockbuster cost $40 million. At the time, many industry leaders considered that an outrageous sum but today, the average megapicture requires about $100 million. How are Hollywood studios coping with these rising costs? They are producing more of these same,... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
@Soldiers Field
IT’S A WRAP Above: In December, Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih (with Harvard Business Publishing’s Dave Di Iulio) filmed a video on the topic of digital transformation at the Klarman Studio soundstage—one of three studios... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
The Show Goes On
writing scripts. After I worked at Bain for several years, a friend and I did just that. We sold a television pilot, “The Club,” that will never see the light of day. But we also sold a small-budget film called The Closet that’s... View Details