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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
(MBA 1988): Brian Crombie. I'm 1988, section E. I think Oppenheimer is one of the best movies I've ever seen, and I think to understand that history, and how even the gentleman that invented, effectively, the atomic age, questioned the...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Turning Point: Listen to the Music
Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was...
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- 31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients....
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- 01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
vegetables. It’s absolutely gorgeous, best to be eaten by the Congo River.” Silver screen: “For me, movies are everything. A movie is a time machine that allows you to be in the past, present, and future. I...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
because my mom took me to work.” Namesake: Destined, a movie that turns on one chance-based event to portray two very different outcomes for a teenage boy growing up in Detroit. Why real estate: “My mom did an amazing job raising me as a...
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- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
reached that birthday last year, he’s thinking about his legacy. Pulmonary fibrosis, the illness that claimed his father’s life, is hereditary. While Kim is healthy, he thinks more carefully about how he spends his time. At first, he was reluctant to sell the View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
Nations’ Human Development Report in 1996, Ramirez may not have imagined himself attending to the details of running the largest movie theater chain in Latin America. Yet, he relished the challenge. “Learning about the business world...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business, by David Mamet “My penchant is for building brands that find a place in the customer’s mind and for developing businesses that live or die by how well they connect with the consumer.”...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
including facilities in more than twenty arenas and stadiums, serving all kinds of snacks and comfort food in the stands and fine cuisine in the luxury boxes. It is also a major player in numerous convention and performing arts centers and airports. The theater...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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How Do I Get Your Job?
student-run Entertainment & Media Club, worked as an assistant to John Davis (MBA 1981) of Davis Entertainment and at Creative Artists Agency before coming to HBS. MB: What sparked your interest in the film industry? ED: I loved movies...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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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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- 01 Dec 2006
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One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
Jetta ads use real-time crashes to emphasize the car’s safety. How would you respond to critics? The two permissible ways to demonstrate safety in commercials in the past involved crash dummies or showing a car weaving to avoid an obstacle. But in View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
film-related internships, which furthered her interests in movies and television, as did serving as director of the HBS Entertainment & Media Club, coproducer of the club’s annual Entertainment & Media Conference, and director of the HBS...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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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...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Producers
THE BIG PICTURE: Teddy Zee, Douglas Mankoff, Diane Nabatoff, and Eric d'Arbeloff in Beverly Hills. The summer blockbuster, a genre unto itself, has long been seen as a surefire way to lure audiences to the air-conditioned sanctum of movie...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Roll the Credits
the ratings system, to challenge government boards that censored Hollywood content” (USA Today, March 24, 2004). In those days, the movies were the country’s undisputed entertainment choice; today, by contrast, there is an “onslaught of...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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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),...
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- 10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman
weekends in a row. He spoke with associate editor Julia Hanna about everything from his approach to a film’s business plan, to the challenges of managing internal growth on his teams—and how the Lego Movie is like The Avengers. READ MORE...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
In the motion picture industry, most people know Alan Horn as the smart, savvy chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, the film company that has turned out movie hits such as When Harry Met Sally and In the Line of Fire, as well as...
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- 03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures
Josh Singer won’t tell me where he keeps his Oscar. In 2016, he won Hollywood’s most coveted award for cowriting Spotlight, the movie about Boston Globe journalists uncovering the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal that also took home...
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