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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
decisions regarding what to do with these films: They could put them on DVDs, or run them in movie theaters before feature films, or do any number of other things. What’s the takeaway from the case? One surprise is that the method of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
dollars to spend in a given year, you're better off making 100 movies that each cost $10 million, or 20 that each cost $50 million. But it turns out that it's much safer to make a handful of really, really big bets. On average, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
fabrics firm in Pennsylvania, but prior to that, he had run a departmentstore chain in Southern California and had friends and contacts in the movie industry. With their help, in 1994 Seder founded the Big Picture Alliance (BPA), an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
on the retailer’s shelf, however, is less than $3. Demand for an individual movie is highly uncertain and usually declines rapidly after the first few weeks, Narayanan said. One contracting solution to bridge the divide between studios... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
forward prep to the time we deliver it. We have these incredible movie nights or movie days where we take people out of the office. We shut down the office about once a month and go have a service project.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
throughout the United States, in addition to running a number of movie theaters, ski areas, and theme parks. "The recreation industry is a great business to be in, partly because I get to spend time with my family and friends in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
sister cities. They’re both industry towns, and in many ways the marketing campaign for a movie or a television show is not unlike a campaign for a political candidate. You’re trying to inform people, arm them with information, remind... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Katie Hood: Fast Forward Hood Hood and Fox In the hit movie Back to the Future, actor Michael J. Fox plays Marty McFly, a teenager in a hurry. Accidentally sent backward through time, Marty encounters a slew of nasty complications. (One... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
Lovell began a career in telecommunications. He also coauthored Lost Moon, a book that inspired the movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. Lovell now serves on several space-related boards and is an advocate for... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
remember him from the movie Scarface, he got shot up in it. So what he created was this fantasy land where amid the chaos and the hell of everything that was happening in Miami between, say, years 1979 and 1982, you had this paradise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
The Show Goes On
improve the sightlines from the sides of the auditorium. I hope our marketing department does a good job of filling those extra seats. Do you have a background in show biz? I loved the movies when I was growing up in Virginia, and was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest
management: “I was general manager at the Marriott in Phuket, Thailand, during the 2004 tsunami. We were fortunate enough to be able to set up a triage center to help others in the area. I had nightmares for a couple of weeks afterward.” 50th birthday party: A View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
start a network from scratch?" In a stellar career that has also included stints running several movie studios and a national theater chain (as well as leading the initial U.S. rollout of Sony's PlayStation), Sagansky has always had his... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
of nature, he describes himself simply as an "organizer by instinct." As a high-school student, for example, he rallied his classmates to raise money to build a private chemistry lab — the lab at school had limited hours —by showing rented View Details
Keywords: Government
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
Apkon: With Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg, celebrating the Jacob Burns Film Center's 10th anniversary. Stephen Apkon’s first movie memory is a little hazy. He’s pretty sure it was Mary Poppins, showing as the first half of a drive-in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Hybrid Learning the HBS Way
Teri Volpert Fellow, quickly came to appreciate the School’s efforts. “I feared that remote students would feel like spectators watching a movie of 25 people in a classroom,” he explains. “But having both in-person and remote students be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
pop-up ads on most sites. Instead, its “immersive” advertising was more like the product placements common to television and movies — sponsors’ products or messages appear in the context of the site’s games and activities.) As the class... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
of the issues near and dear to the Class of 2009. The event, which organizers thought might be a first in HBS history (or at least the first in quite some time) included complimentary beverages and enough popcorn to fuel a movie marathon.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
vineyards, and immersing myself in local culture, which was definitely facilitated by a motorcycle. But then what happened was I went to go see a movie called The Highest Pass, And The Highest Pass was a View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
intelligence firm he started in the early 1970s was just a decade later digging up assets hidden by powerful individuals, including Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein. Kroll’s work even inspired the 2000 View Details