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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
A Legacy of Investment
5d44e16e230f4261c6f0a40446934d91 A new exhibit at Hawes Hall pays tribute to alumni and friends whose generous financial support has made a lasting difference in the character and quality of HBS. The exhibit aims to illuminate the past and inspire a new generation as... View Details
- 10 Jan 2013
- News
From Wall Street to Visual Art
Bussel: Using her business savvy to manage large-scale art installations. View Bussel's online gallery Three heads—simple, generic profiles—stand 30 feet high and span 100 feet across the outer wall of the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, the home of the Israeli... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A United Front
Sustaining peak performance over not just years but decades may be the single most difficult challenge for executives, which makes Sir Alex Ferguson's 26-year run as manager of England's legendary Manchester United soccer club so noteworthy, especially in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Looking to the Majors
PAULSON: Sports is a tough business for ROI, but the returns to the community can be ample. Merritt Paulson (MBA ’00), owner of the minor league Portland Beavers Triple-A baseball team and the United Soccer League’s Portland Timbers, is thinking about The Show. That’s... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- News
Launching a Fashion Site
- 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
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
ABBASI: With the participation of HBS alumni and Hollywood heavyweights, bringing climate change drama into US living rooms. Related Link Preview: Years of Living Dangerously (video) by Garry Emmons Last spring, when a Hawaiian observatory reported that carbon dioxide... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
Kaplan: "Automated retail" dispenses movie magic. Photo courtesy Gregg Kaplan/Redbox If you’ve seen one at your local US grocery store, you know that “vending machine” is an inadequate description for Redbox, the sleek, red (of course) kiosks that dispense new-release... View Details
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
or nationalization. No government expects the investor simply to walk away from its investment. On the other hand, an absolute refusal to negotiate or to entertain reasonable offers will mean an end to that company's business... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
School Case 817-117 King Digital Entertainment Riccardo Zacconi was the co-founder and CEO of King Digital Entertainment, the video game company that had quickly established itself as the world’s leading maker of casual games for mobile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony Computer View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
business is often considered just a branch of the entertainment industry, clearly it is much more than that. Sports are part of the fabric of society, with components of deep emotional attachment, civic pride, and familial and community... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- March 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Choosing the Right Esports Business Model
By: David Collis and Alexander MacKay
Two esports entrepreneurs must choose on which business model to focus their time and money. After successfully launching an online esports coaching platform, a number of new opportunities emerge in the rapidly growing esports space that now has close to one billion... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Business Development; Esports; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Management; Strategy; Sports; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia
Collis, David, and Alexander MacKay. "Choosing the Right Esports Business Model." Harvard Business School Case 719-459, March 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
Photos courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum On the subject of art’s relevance in the digital age, Scott Belsky (MBA 2008) has never been one to mince words. “Art institutions need to change the way we think about the future, rather than simply inform us... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent scholarship compares the rise of... View Details
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Hillary Mann
Hillary Mann (MBA, Babson ’15; University of Michigan ’04) is a Corporate Relations Director who manages relationships with organizations in Consumer Products, Retail & Luxury Goods, Hospitality, Agribusiness, and Sustainability. Hillary brings over 10 years of... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
entertainment-oriented retail,” Cummings says. He dispenses this optimistic wisdom in a low rumble and cranes his neck to see the top of each building, as if still impressed by the heights they’ve reached. Now it’s on to “Ilitch country,” as Cummings calls it,... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Ron DeShay (OPM 53, 2019), CEO and founder of World of Dreams Entertainment (WODE) Group, launched “A Better World Project.” The recent incidents “heightened tensions around racism, police brutality, and the injustices Black people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Style Check
Benetton Brain Trust: After learning at the knee of his father, Luciano, Alessandro is taking the family business forward. Working for his family’s company, whose colorful sportswear and controversial advertising made it a brand of international renown, Alessandro... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Linking Donors, Students
Lee Fellowship recipient Shamika Lee (MBA ’08) spoke at the MBA Fellowship Dinner in mid-April, an annual event where fellowship students and donors get to know each other. “On behalf of all the students here tonight, let me say that we do not take your investment... View Details