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- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
influence on the decision. That’s all well and good—until factors like cultural issues and employee power begin to creep into the picture. For example, the state has had power but only now seems to be exhibiting higher levels of interest in business decisions. When... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to Business School as a Couple
people has been a wonderful new chapter in our relationship together. What plans do you have after business school? We're moving back to the West Coast! Patrick is joining the Corporate Strategy and Business Development team at Disney... View Details
- Profile
Nashae Roundtree
when you grew up? An actress! Many people thought I looked like Raven Symone when I was younger, so I planned to replace her on the Disney Channel TV Show "That's So Raven." What is your favorite childhood memory? Spending Sundays after... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
in America, and Work in Progress (co-authored with Michael Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Company). Schwartz is now president of LGE Performance Systems and co-created its Corporate Athlete training program, which aims to apply the... View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program
sources of inspiration for months to come. The Case Method manifested itself just as I had seen in Professor Neeley’s video months before. Each case, covering companies from Walt Disney Studios to Live Nation, developed its own musical... View Details
- Web
Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
Discovering Customer Jobs to be Done Focus on what causes your customers to buy your products and why, and achieve differentiation, better margins, and avoid disruption. Highlights The Jobs to be Done Pyramid Disney California Adventure... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Brown teaches a case about Disney in her MBA elective course, The Business of Aesthetics (Photo courtesy of Pauline Brown) Brown has honed that ability to the point of poetic brevity. Asked recently what’s so great about Hermès silk... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Disney Consumer Products based in Paris and led the company's entry into Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and post-Apartheid South Africa. Hightower grew Disney's business from $650 million to $4.5 billion with... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
get. Alan Horn (MBA 1971) Chief Creative Officer, Disney Studios Content Business Should Lead the Way BIO It is time for business leaders to respond to the challenge of climate change in a powerful and effective way. It is clear—and... View Details
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
WORK? That concept can be confusing because we all wear masks at work. One of the most extreme examples is the workforce at Disney theme parks. As soon as those people come out from behind the scenes, they are on stage—happy, smiling, and... View Details
- 18 May 2020
- News
Kevin Mayer Takes Over TikTok
Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) has left his position leading Disney’s streaming business to take... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Bringing Up Baby
As a Walt Disney Co. executive who helped turn around the company's Euro Disney operation, Laura McCartney (MBA '93) knew plenty about problem solving and strategizing in the corporate world. But as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team... View Details
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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports - Course Catalog
firms, products, and personalities in media, sports, and other entertainment industries. Examples include The Walt Disney Studios, Live Nation, FC Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, American Ballet Theatre, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, LeBron James,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- News
Is This Disney’s Next CEO?
A recent article in Bloomberg notes that Disney strategy chief Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) might be positioned to succeed longtime Disney CEO Bob Iger. The article highlights Mayer’s recent initiatives at Disney,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
What’s On?
KILAR After working at Amazon.com for nine years, in 2007 Jason Kilar (MBA ’97) became CEO of Hulu, the service that brings popular television programming and movies to computers via high-quality streaming video. Hulu, free and ad-supported, may be the next big thing;... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- News
How Disney’s Alan Horn Manages the Movies
The most recent issue of Variety features a cover story on Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn (MBA 1971). The piece paints Horn as a rare character in Hollywood, being “both successful and beloved,” and tracks his departure from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Union College 2012 Named Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios After two years working on the Ivory Soap account at Procter & Gamble, Alan Horn... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
S.F.’s New Museum
Bradley Photo Courtesy MOAD The executive director of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), which opened in November in San Francisco, is V. Denise Bradley (MBA ’86). Bradley (right), who came to MoAD from London’s South Bank Centre and who had previously worked... View Details