Entertainment and Recreation Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2006
News

Notebook

type of service — video, voice, data, entertainment — as efficiently as possible. The industry is changing fast, and while it means opportunity for us, it also means investment... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information

01 Sep 2004
News

Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

a strong collaboration between the Time to Read national program and media and entertainment giant Time Warner, Inc. Time to Read helps local nonprofits such as Chicago's Off... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

Profile

Blake Landro

Making a dramatic shift in both industry and location, Blake decided to make a difference at Google, in Mountain View, CA, where he worked on Google Checkout, an online payment platform for small- to... View Details

June 1990 (Revised October 1993)
Case

Phil Knight: CEO at NIKE--1983

By: Richard E. Walton

An edited, shortened version of Phil Knight: CEO at Nike with parts of Nike (E) integrated into it. View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

changes on jobs, tax base, and blight as you lose thousands and thousands of stores around the country?” Q: Are some malls still working well? Alvarez: Some you see succeeding are experience-based malls,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

Weinzierl. AUGUST 6 In response to the tragic deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, Ron DeShay (OPM 53, 2019), CEO and founder of World of Dreams View Details

28 Sep 2015
News

Rockin’ for a Cause

firm. A veteran in the industry with recent experience in late-stage start-ups such as Mandiant and ArcSight, Scheel joined the company in 2014. Symantec is spinning off Veritas, a storage View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Symantec

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

models, individual entrepreneurs, companies, and industries vanish from the scene. In complete contrast to Schumpeter's approach in Business Cycles, no mention of a single business firm occurs over the... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

13 Jul 2020
News

The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

what it would mean to feel physically present with anyone from anywhere. It unlocks economic opportunities for people who can’t move to major industry hubs; has the potential to dramatically improve our environmental impact of commuting... 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

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

Leonard H. Goldenson

Goldenson took over ABC, the network was in third place in the industry behind CBS and NBC. ABC finally reached the top spot in 1976 thanks to the success of shows like “Laverne View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

28 Aug 2013
News

Inside Comcast's $30 Billion TV Bet

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

Launched in 2017, Clay is an artisanal ceramics startup for the sharing economy. Founder and CEO Rukmini Giridharadas (MBA 2014) has partnered with potters in the Bay Area to offer their wares online to the chefs, caterers, View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

19 Oct 2021
News

In the Contest for Content

Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares As the founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004) is establishing herself within the high-stakes contest to own the catalogs of music... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

27 Mar 2023
News

A Sporting Chance

It would be a much sexier story, says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), if he told people he was trampled by a raging bull, but the truth is that the fall that had such a profound effect on his life was a much more mundane event. "It was just a really stupid accident,"... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

06 Jan 2011
News

An Independent Niche

Keywords: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

Lew R. Wasserman

actors, directors and other staff for television programming, but also creating and producing much of the programming itself. MCA went on to buy the Universal City studio and... View Details