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- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
also call it an audaciously big bet on an unproven format in an ever-crowded market of streaming content. With an April 6, 2020, launch, Whitman and Katzenberg have 20 months and $1 billion to build the whole thing from scratch—from a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
where anyone can contribute to create a “win-win” business together. When I joined Sanrio in 2008, our market cap was about $500 million. Now it’s closer to $3.5 billion, with $750 million in sales and an operating profit just over $200... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
on the expectations market will continue driving us from crisis to crisis to ruin—unless we act now.” Check out our review in the September Bulletin. Previous Next Business lessons for a global century Bill Roedy (MBA 1979) Former MTV... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
the Super Bowl ad game is big business, and therefore very instructive for the 70 MBA students in his marketing classes, who review and grade the ads. “An ad need not be entertaining to be effective,” he... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
and I started to learn what it takes to manage an unwieldy production process and to please the fickle consumer. Business school made sense to me because I liked to hatch ideas and make them happen. After HBS I went to work in consumer packaged goods View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
Named by his MBA section “Most likely to end up in People magazine,” Jeffrey A. Baron did so with a twist. He made People not in the United States but in Brazil, where his second play, Mother’s Day, received widespread acclaim. Baron’s road from working-class New... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
every hand in the class went up. Needless to say, the faculty had never seen such eagerness to participate before. Some people began playing multiple cards. To rectify this unfairness, we brought market discipline to the fore and started... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
enterprise, entrepreneurship, entertainment and media, and emerging markets.) Here’s a sampling of what a few students from the MBA and Doctoral Programs will be doing. Paige Sopcic (MBA 2018) Hometown: Roscoe, Illinois Destination: GE... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
"I'll take that bet." Despite having come off a solid win as chief marketing officer of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee, Amy Aronoff Blumkin (MBA 1988), isn't talking about football. She's recounting what she told her boss at AT&T... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
passenger can create his own climate zone. We customize our music and then implant the made-to-order entertainment directly into our ears. And what bigger marketing success have we seen in the past... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Participants enjoyed sessions on topics that ranged from biotechnology to media and entertainment to social enterprise. A panel of six entrepreneurs, moderated by HBS professor Lynda M. Applegate, discussed their experiences in light of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
negative publicity. What should the country do to polish its image? Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5777.html. Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure The early days of the subprime industry seemed to fulfill a market need, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990)
highlight: Watching chairman Sean Combs launch the network from the front stoop of the late Notorious B.I.G.’s home on St. James Place in Brooklyn. Five words on Sean Combs: Incredibly market savvy, beautifully unreasonable. On... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Looking to the Majors
Portland-Vancouver, the 23rd-largest TV market in the country, is most suitable for a Major League Soccer franchise. “You’re talking about one of the best soccer markets in the country and bringing in a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
two years at Soldiers Field had prepared us to size up a competitor, motivate employees, and gain market share, but we could not have anticipated the many other ways in which our leadership skills would be put to the test. Much has been... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
was ranked number one in guest satisfaction for 2009 by the Market Metrix Hospitality Index (based on over 130,000 hotel customer surveys), beating competitors including the Ritz-Carlton, W Hotels, and the Four Seasons. Michael Depatie... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
that plane who boarded on time," she says. "But then there is this person who really cannot read. And she is a customer. And we want her on our plane. But how do we teach her how to fly?" The first-time flyer market in Brazil has risen... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Sky Lucas (MBA 1983) and Jeff Hamer (Amazon Digital Services) The authors, two stock-market veterans, share their hard-won wisdom through entertaining and insightful tales about the cruel world of stocks, money management, and irrational... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
explanations about the development of the United States’ Federal Reserve System, which was created in 1913 in direct response to the Panic of 1907; and an engaging and entertaining account of a fascinating period in financial and economic... View Details