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- 21 Sep 2011
- News
Innovators don't ignore customers
- 03 May 2016
- News
Henry McGee
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... 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
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
its Nasdaq stock market debut. But Bezos was still feeling frugal. He didn’t want to spring for a cab from Logan to the Harvard campus, so some MBA students vied to give him a lift. Two of them, Rayport recalls, were promptly hired to work at Amazon — they helped the... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Adventure in Reading
Abominable Snowman, which features the voices of actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman. Norton believes the DVDs will actually encourage kids to read, just as children read Harry Potter books after seeing one of the movies. Even... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A business career comes full circle
Henry McGee (AB 1974, MBA 1979) spent 34 years at Home Box Office, helping to develop the television company into an international powerhouse. As president of HBO Home Entertainment, the DVD and digital program distribution division, he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pursuing a passion
Amabile explains. “They licensed the rights to the series and used DVD technology to update the concept and make it interactive by today’s technological standards. The company they founded as HBS students is now up and running and doing... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
media company's relatively unknown cable TV subsidiary, Home Box Office. He took the job at HBO and stayed for 34 years, recently retiring as president of HBO Home Entertainment, the network's DVD and digital program distribution... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
(i-lab). Doris and Sauer were a natural fit for these roles. In 1986, they left Lucasfilm to found Sonic Solutions, where they developed and marketed audio signal processing, professional sound editing, and later DVD and digital video... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
R-rated film has trouble with the box office because the audience is limited and will often wait for the DVD release. Consumers are not stupid. They know that the time between the theatrical release of a film and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
hallowed halls of Aldrich to face the inevitable, “Hi! What are you doing these days?” I spent the entire plane ride to Boston blissfully reading instead of juggling apple juice, thumping dead DVD players, and brokering peace among my... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
share my healthy tips and inspirational stories on major media outlets like Good Morning Texas, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In online community, and on Greatist.com. In addition to the blog, I have also launched my signature fitness method and View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
us,” says Simon. “That was the content we were able to share with our consumers via social media, and share with our retailers as well, to tell how our food comes to market.” Beneath the Harvest Sky was released on DVD late last year, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Home Entertainment, the network’s DVD and digital distribution division. “The most exciting thing about this area is waking up and knowing that whatever you thought was true yesterday is not true today.” In April the company, after some... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
first started out, it was really theatrical, was king. Home video was a big deal. DVDs were a big deal in really propping up the market. And now DVDs are not really that relevant. And it's all online and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
feeder,” he says. “Our customers are the same sort of people who have ZOOTS do their dry cleaning and who get their DVDs through Netflix,” Gisholt remarks. “It’s another way to put something else in your life on autopilot.” Before... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
DVD to catch up on world cinema. I collect antique maps of India from the days of the British Raj and am also finding time to indulge in still photography and play the occasional game of tennis. What’s your favorite place to vacation or... View Details