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- 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)... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Movies That Move People
have a picture that captures an audience most completely. And that’s what we strive to do. ”I’m very aware that the motion picture industry is pervasive and the films we make are seen if they’re good and made attractive to an audience.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
books. How do you get out of the Bronx? Being good at science. I was valedictorian of my class at Bronx Science and that was the ticket to Harvard, a school I had only visited by watching the movie Love Story. As an undergrad, I realized... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
To his millions of fans, he was simply Steve
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
eye-opening glimpse under the hood of an industry I love. Coupled with my time on movie sets and in production offices, I saw the industry’s huge potential for innovation. During business school, I also... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
the days before institutionalized tutoring schools, he explains—today a $20 billion industry in Korea. “My father had a strict military background and told me to learn English by reading books,” he recalls. When Kim reported that he could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
FAMILY PORTRAIT: John and Aileen Crowley with Megan, John Jr., and Patrick. When John Crowley (MBA ’97) flew to Portland, Oregon, last spring to watch the filming of a movie about his life, what he saw was “beyond surreal.” The actors’... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
the movie business is unpredictable, Vogel asserted. "If you made all the movies you turned down, and turned down all the movies you made, you would still come out the same,"... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
financed by women, in an industry where women have been largely underrepresented in all of these roles,” says Mandelli, who is managing director of the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. “And the View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
wouldn’t consumers simply download movies — legally or illegally? Uneasy parallels have been drawn between the movie industry and the music industry, which continues to fight... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Gerardo "Gerry" Lopez fondly recalls the first movie he saw in the United States, in 1977: Star Wars. "Wow, the special effects and flying through space—it was great!" says Lopez (MBA 1984),... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Hollywood and Humility
flurry of movie projects, including a three-picture deal with director M. Night Shyamalan, the pair is becoming, through MRC, one of the largest suppliers of programming for television, according to Daily Variety (September 25, 2008).... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
a global box office of $469 million that had everyone involved humming along to the movie’s hit song, “Everything Is Awesome.” Following on that success, February saw the release of The LEGO Batman Movie, with The LEGO Ninjago Movie due... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
industry that so many of us are familiar with and enjoy. What are some of the personal rewards of working in movies? Lin: The personal rewards for me are making something out of nothing. I think that's the thing that's most rewarding for... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
Clayton up this weekend for seven Academy Awards. (Any predictions out there on the winners?) Samuels drew an analogy between the real estate industry and filmmaking. “I look at a movie script the same way I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
data freely available. There aren't many industries that publish sales numbers on a weekly basis, for everyone to see, but the movie industry does. And when I started to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
volunteer in Africa before attending HBS; thinking back to that time made him want to do "something useful and outrageous" once again. Particularly concerned about violence among young people, Seder decided that he wanted to "make a commitment to at-risk youth." At the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
Serrena Iyer (MBA 2018) Working in the entertainment industry is a dream come true for Serrena Iyer, who after graduating from HBS landed at the aptly named DreamWorks Animation as senior manager of strategy and operations. It’s a passion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Venture Capital, Post-Dot Bomb
so much global liquidity, too many dollars are chasing too few opportunities. “What’s going to prove me wrong?” Initially, Sahlman found little resistance to his gloomy forecast. “It’s an extremely hit-driven business that’s becoming more like the View Details