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- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
example: the 2010 mine collapse in Chile that trapped 33 workers some 2,300 feet underground for 69 days. Here's Emondson's account.) The success of the now legendary mining rescue in Chile in 2010, while widely covered in the news and immortalized in a major View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Now Starring: Single Dad
5, 2010). It was also a time when the concept of “single dad” was largely unfamiliar to many Americans. After graduating from Harvard College, Wand and Robby lived in Arlington, Massachusetts, while Wand was a student at HBS. Despite the movie’s View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- Book
Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action
Hollywood for women and actresses of color. Spencer, who is African American, let Chastain know about big pay differences between Black and white actresses. Chastain responded by publicly advocating for fair pay and by starting a... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
daughters regarding the use of lipstick in America.21 By the end of the 1920s, three thousand different face powders and several hundred rouges alone were being sold on the American market.22 Hollywood was also playing a pivotal role.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
painter: “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” he says. +ONLINE: Rip Torn’s Three Steps to Becoming an Actor: Things were a little different in 1965, when Ted Hartley bumped into actor Rip Torn on Hollywood Boulevard. Hartley was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
buyers? And in an interesting plot twist, Elberse decided to design her research not around actual box office receipts, but rather around a Hollywood simulation game that has over half a million players. The results were published in her... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)
I’ve never spent time in the US for study or work. So, I stayed silent when people talk about Hollywood celebrities and gossip, American politics, football, etc. I tried hard to hide my Asian identity and Chinese heritage, at least... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Turning Point: Listen to the Music
Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details
- Web
Online Management Course | HBS Online
Hollywood Agency Elevate your management skills by applying insights from Harvard Business School faculty and expert practitioners. I thought I knew the subject relatively well and it would be a refresher. I was in for a surprise. After... View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
The 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding last year stirred reflection about the country’s image, values, and position in the world among everyone from former diplomats to Hollywood actors. Despite efforts to portray Israel as modern and... View Details
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
million fee. The situation came to light when the negotiation leaked. (The dispute was apparently resolved when Wahlberg agreed to donate his $1.5 million to Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.) This Hollywood soap opera raises an interesting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
members they’d been cast to play: John; his wife, Aileen; John Jr.; Megan; and Patrick. But the eeriest moment was coming face-to-face with his Hollywood “family.” “They were putting together photo shoots re-creating our family pictures... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
in the Northeast, responsible for everything from running the projectors to selling more than 1 million pounds of popcorn each year. To help Hollywood fill seats, O'Donnell bought Allied Advertising, which, with the clout befitting the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
soon the storm of allegations would draw undeniably close. In November, the award-winning screenwriter Jenny Lumet published a first-person account in the Hollywood Reporter of being violated in 1991 by Russell Simmons, the king of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
Angeles for the premier Hollywood Trek, where they joined a total of 45 HBSers interested in the entertainment industry and the Internet. Meanwhile, in London, more than 90 students from the School were experiencing a full agenda of... View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
entertainment and media. Hollywood Reporter Get the latest news on the entertainment industry with the Hollywood Reporter. This site covers all aspects of the entertainment sector including music, movies,... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
conventional venture capital fund, creates two-thirds of its portfolio startups in-house; the Black List, a highly anticipated annual publication in Hollywood that ranks the year’s unproduced scripts based on nominations from hundreds of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
Monte (“End of the Santa Fe Trail”) remains a magnet for prostitutes, particularly transvestites. Police dub them “heeshees” (he/shes); some dress in spiky heels and miniskirts, sporting silicone implants (done in Mexico) that a Hollywood... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Barnes & Noble took over B. Dalton, and Borders came to run Waldenbooks. With the fall of the mall chain and the rise of the superstore, analysts announced the death of the independent bookstore for a second time. Hollywood even wrote a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
winning. Carrying the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders, Braddock rocketed through the ranks, until he took on the heavyweight champion of the world. Shirley Temple was the Hollywood darling of the Great Depression,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace