entertaining - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jul 2017
News

Game On for Boston E-Sports

07 Jul 2015
News

"They Burned the House Down"

Keywords: Sony; hacking; crisis management; leadership; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2014
News

Innovation: An Orchestra of One

Video Embed Ann Chao discusses the inspiration behind her new startup, Sonation. As a student, Ann Chao (MBA 2013) loved playing chamber music with HBS friends. But MBAs live busy lives, and their jam sessions were few and far between. "One day I was practicing piano... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

31 May 2013
News

Seeing the Light

EVANS: A second career emerges from a lifelong avocation. Photo courtesy of Chip Evans For decades, Chip Evans (MBA 1973) was a Mad Man in Manhattan, doing account work for major Fortune 500 clients at iconic advertising agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather, Foote Cone... View Details

Keywords: painting; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2005
News

Exploring the Galápagos

“Marty should be here for this; this is what he came here for,” Esther Flashner laments to our Galápagos National Park guide, as a dozen of us stroll the sandy beach of Darwin Bay on the island of Genovesa. We are improbably close to nesting sea birds, four species of... View Details

Keywords: Ted A. Adams; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2005
News

Change Channel

Brian Graden (MBA ’89) is president of MTV Networks and of Logo, the new gay-oriented cable channel launched in June. Logo features mostly movies but also documentaries, sports, travel shows, original sitcoms, concerts, and more. “When you tell a story about gay rodeo... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2003
News

Portraits from the Class of 2003

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Last year when Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) posed this question — from a poem by Pulitzer Prize–winner Mary Oliver — to his sectionmates, he was impressed with what the answers told him. “I found... View Details

Keywords: HBS; portrait project; Arts, Entertainment

28 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

Association and an MBA candidate in the class of 2015 at Harvard Business School. The event was moderated by Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research focuses on marketing strategies for firms and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

stake in Infoseek, the Internet search firm. Disney, once merely an entertainment provider, has thus become a multimedia giant able to shape and deliver news, information, and other content through a variety of channels. "Companies... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

01 Apr 1999
News

A Vibrant Brand

is what will keep it alive. While it seems an unlikely pairing when looking at content, Clinkscales admits that the similarities between Vibe/Spin Ventures and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia cannot be ignored. Just as the queen of home View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2014
News

Feedback

percent. Screen Saver Re: AMC Theatres’ quest for a third place Very interesting story of what brick-and-mortar can do to compete in a tough video entertainment market. The puzzle is if this is a strategy of building better mousetraps or... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

wheel." — Jack Legare, the hero of Goddesses and Doormats, the forthcoming thriller by Norb Vonnegut (MBA 1986) What I'm Reading "An LA native, I thought I understood the entertainment industry—that is, until I read HBS professor Anita... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

enterprise side, the deployment of 5G is creating an influx of companies that are eager to explore products and services on a 5G playground—like Teale, a smart-building management company, and the AR/VR entertainment company Vizua 3D.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

March 2011 (Revised September 2011)
Background Note

Everyone and Everything is Online

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett

The twenty-first century digital world enabled mobile, empowered, content-hungry individuals to capture the value of enabling technologies and applications to manage, create, share, and influence content across the creation and delivery spectrum. Users were online in... View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Learning; Entertainment; Power and Influence; Internet and the Web; Value; Web Services Industry

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30 May 2016
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Meet the HBS Sound Society

Coachella. Finally, we co-hosted an amazing event with the Entertainment & Media Club that featured a performance by the band COLDCALL. We sold several hundred tickets to their performance at Middle East Downstairs, and it was the... View Details

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South Asia - Global Activities 2021

initiatives to support COVID-19 relief, frontline efforts to augment testing, as well as the future of the entertainment industry. Alumni on the Air Webinar Series Pictured: Ameera Shah (OPM 42, 2012), Managing Director, Metropolis... View Details

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Ann Chao

Ann entertained three entrepreneurial possibilities—testing them in an independent study with Entrepreneurial Management Professor Shikhar Ghosh—before committing to one full time. Bringing the social joy of music to individual practice... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Ask the Expert: Bounce Back

newsletter advertising can be extended to many industries: hotels or airlines can embed ads for attractions near featured destinations or travel accessories, entertainment venues can embed ads for local restaurants and bars, retailers... View Details