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- 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
- 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 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... 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 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
- 12 Apr 2016
- News
How Disney’s Alan Horn Manages the Movies
Disney, the article notes, has been palpable. Those who have been in the trenches with Horn say the studio chairman’s imprint can be found on most, if not all, Disney films — including those under the Pixar, Marvel or Lucasfilm labels,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Celebrations in LA, Florida, London
pursue the School’s mission with a high degree of excellence.” Thanks to film executive Alan F. Horn (MBA ’71), who opened the Warner Bros. Studio lot to HBS, the Los Angeles event was a memorable evening for the several hundred West... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 25 Jun 2025
- News
Hitting A High Note
As the Atlanta Opera's general and artistic director, Tomer Zvulun has big ambitions for the organization, imagining a “new model of performing arts." Photo and video credit: Melissa Golden Tomer Zvulun video Tomer Zvulun discusses the Atlanta Opera's contributions to... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
presents the instructive dilemma faced by Fujifilm as its core film business vanishes in the wake of advances made in digital technology. “Fuji experienced the same situation that buggy whip manufacturers confronted when cars were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
plan might entail setting up a car wash, a truck haulage company, or a fast-food van. “PEP is a terrific program, and I would love to get even more involved,” Edis says. To that end, Edis, whose family has been affected by incarceration, is working to put together a... 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
- 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