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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Morse G. Dial Union Carbide Corporation, 1952–1963 Alfred B. Dick Jr. A. B. Dick and Company, 1934–1947 Alfred B. Dick A. B. Dick and Company, 1883–1934 Earl B. Dickerson Supreme Life Insurance Company of America, 1956–1971 Walter E. View Details

October 2019
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Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music

By: Rohit Deshpandé

To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States

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02 Jan 2024
What Do You Think?

Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?

(AdobeStock/Vincent) The return of Robert Iger as CEO of Walt Disney followed by a poorer-than-expected company performance has rekindled the debate about whether the decision to bring back formerly successful CEOs to revitalize an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jun 2023
Research & Ideas

Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks

Thousands of visitors flock to Disney World every day to immerse themselves in all kinds of exciting experiences—a cruise on the Pirates of the Caribbean; a visit to the China pavilion at EPCOT; a meet-and-greet with a favorite princess.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

(Cayman Islands) Holding Corporation, one of the largest food-and-beverage groups in China. He led Tingyi's effort to form strategic alliances with PepsiCo and Starbucks and partnerships with The Walt Disney Company and the NBA in China.... View Details

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Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

of business units . More about business unit strategy Creating Corporate Value Added In diversified companies, corporate leaders can enhance competitive advantage by capturing synergies and harnessing fit across the value chains of business units within the corporate... View Details

06 Jul 2023
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Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

the streaming, streaming is very popular right now and everyone's talking about Netflix and Disney and all these players in streaming. If you actually look at live streaming, baseball was at least five years ahead of anyone else in terms... View Details

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Leadership Initiative - Leadership

Building a Culture of Innovation”. Ann brings to this role, three decades of senior leadership both at Disney Animation and Wētā FX, focused on creative talent and designing the most effective, innovative environments for them. As a... View Details

10 Feb 2020
In Practice

6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy

testing, and agile strategies. 6. Cloud computing is lowering barriers to entry “Competition will intensify in many digitally enabled industries as the cloud makes it ever easier for competitors to enter a market, which we’ve seen with View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

02 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

Owning that and being ready is something they’re really interested in. Morrell: Some of these lessons seem so obvious. This idea that the hedonic treadmill will never lead to happiness—this is the theme of every Disney movie I watched as... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

26 Apr 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young

deferral? I ended up using all four years of my deferral despite thinking that I would only do three years when I applied. During my deferral, I did a summer internship at The Walt Disney Company before starting my full-time job as a... View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

warehouse inventory. Highlights Learn about the basics of population sampling. Start with the question you are trying to answer first before determining what population needs to be sampled. Explore how Walt Disney Studios uses data to... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

Alcott College Prep High School IL 3 of 34 Joshua Burmeister Partners For Success Addison, IL IL 4 of 34 Casey Campe Disney II Magnet High School Chicago, IL Subjects: Civics IL 5 of 34 Andrea Cavedo Woodlands Academy Lake Forest, IL... View Details

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

movie industry resides. Alcácer says that when Disney bought Pixar in 2006, Pixar executives asked to remain based in Northern California because they didn't want the company's culture to be negatively affected by the culture in Southern... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Amazon, Walt Disney Studios, and Caesars Entertainment. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Janice Hammond Business Analytics Jesse... View Details

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

purse. Tickets, money, and IDs were all gone. A Disney employee gave me food vouchers for the family, park tickets for the following days, and helped with any inconveniences that we faced. While we enjoyed the rest of the day in the park,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage. Your feedback to last month’s column As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding ‘Don’t Say Gay’? By the time cases are discussed at HBS and elsewhere, we... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

01 Sep 2003
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Larry Murphy

It was reading a Life magazine article (Ann Moore, take note) about Eastern colleges that helped propel Lawrence P. Murphy from a small town in Missouri to Williams College, followed by HBS. In 1985, after positions at Citibank, Bain, and Marriott, Murphy was hired by... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Accommodation; Hospitality

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Camp Immokalee High School Immokalee, FL IL Casey Campe Disney II Magnet High School Chicago, IL Subjects: Civics TX Eleanor Cannon St. John’s School Houston, TX Subjects: Grade 11 U.S. History UT Shannon Cannon Maeser Prep Academy... View Details

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Thomas Murphy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

ABC with the backing of his longtime friend Warren Buffett, and the company became Cap Cities/ABC. Ten years later, Tom sold Cap Cities/ABC to Disney for about $19 billion. He talked about his prolific career in an interview from his... View Details

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