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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Burden Legacy
16, landed his first job as a reporter and camera assistant with a New York newsreel company. He joined RKO Pictures in California in 1929, rising from production assistant to associate producer. At the dawn of World War II Shirley launched Tradefilms, Inc.,...
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Linda Kush
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
before she was eventually rescued on an island some thirty miles away. A Dateline NBC piece, filmed ten days after the accident, turned the unassuming Crotty into a celebrity. She has received and responded to hundreds of letters from...
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Susan Young
- 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’...
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- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in...
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- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
and three siblings during the Korean War. A bomb blast—friendly fire from US troops—killed everyone except Kim’s mother and her younger brother. The story is included in Offerings, Kim’s 2020 bestseller. In October 2023, news broke that View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
Mac Bartels (Photo courtesy of Mac Bartels) Just back from the Toronto Film Festival, Eric d'Arbeloff (MBA 1993), copresident of independent film producer and distributor Roadside Attractions, talks to Mac...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in countries including Guatemala, the...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
believed in pure evil, as personified in the psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro, in the 1991 film Cape Fear). This and the 1962 original were based on MacDonald's The Executioners and were among the few successful View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
public and the government, it was considered an after-school activity for privileged children. So he teamed up with David MacEnulty, president of the David MacEnulty Chess Foundation and inspiration for the 2005 TV film Knights of the...
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Maureen Harmon
- 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 that grew out of the many...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road...
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Dan Morrell
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
made. For example, in my business (motion pictures), film and television product can deliver important climate messages without “hitting people over the head with them.” There is a balance to be struck and we must find it. Scott Jacobs...
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- 04 Apr 2019
- News
Promoting Diversity at Sundance and Beyond
and workshops at the annual Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The number of black films showcased at Sundance has since increased from 7 to 39, and Blackhouse has added popular outreach events at the Cannes,...
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- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
When did you realize that you wanted to make a career change? (Diogo left a career in management consulting in October 2014 to become founder/executive producer of Adaptation Now, a documentary film project that will tell the stories of...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
event” and “radical change” for the company, Marvel has secured $525 million of nonrecourse debt (its film characters serve as collateral) to produce ten motion pictures. With Paramount as its distributor, Marvel will oversee all other...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
blockbuster cost $40 million. At the time, many industry leaders considered that an outrageous sum but today, the average megapicture requires about $100 million. How are Hollywood studios coping with these rising costs? They are producing more of these same,...
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Paula Maute
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
case? One of the cases I wrote is about BMW Films’ award-winning marketing campaign. These were eight beautiful short films by famous directors, each less than ten minutes long, stuck on a corner of the Internet. Trailers for them on...
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- 02 Feb 2017
- News
A Vision for the Earth
Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011) is a retired colonel with the US Air Force and former NASA astronaut. He has piloted the Space Shuttle and logged more than 200 days aboard the International Space Station, where he conducted a wide range of scientific experiments and helped...
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- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
about these issues.” WuDunn and Kristof won’t deny their role in inspiring action through their extensive reporting on poverty, oppression, and the lack of opportunity faced by millions of people worldwide. Just as they did with Half the Sky, the pair spent a year...
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Margie Kelley
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
financial services with the Capital Group Companies, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with some HBS friends. A believer since childhood in the power of storytelling on the big screen, Diamond was struck by the lack...
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Deborah Blagg