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Jason A. Kilar
companies do it the other way around. What was the catalyst for Hulu? When a little company named YouTube, which was created in 2005, got acquired by Google for $1.6 billion 18 months later, that was a cataclysmic event. It was particularly resonant in View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
linked to the annual, star-studded Sundance event. “There was no secret formula,” he says. “We just created a supportive space where black artists can mingle, shine, and learn about financing, production, marketing, and distribution. We also reached out to the View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
where you stand on the political aisle, the acrimony inherent in a two-party system was disheartening at times. So if politics was my first love, entertainment and media is my second—specifically film and television. I was drawn to that world, and began to realize that...
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Julia Hanna
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
stuff, Singer admits. “You never want it to end, because you’re convinced it’s never going to happen again.” That’s the ephemeral nature of the business, it seems. Everyone in Hollywood is in motion, working on a project or looking for...
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- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
culture. It was very controversial. We’re talking about a movie about a relationship between two sisters-in-law. Even Hollywood has only recently begun addressing these sorts of topics. She took a big risk that her mainstream audience...
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- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) award, and (3) file for Chapter 11 in the same 30-day period? Well the design tools for visual effects incorporated more and more know-how, so plenty of people around the world could acquire the capability for doing the VFX work. The...
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- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Lin (MBA 1999) is the Hollywood producer behind the hit films Sherlock Holmes, Gangster Squad, and the Lego Movie. Lin’s most recent film, Lego Batman, opened last...
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
engagements have included Starbucks’ corporate headquarters, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Hollywood Commission on Sexual Harassment and Diversity chaired by Anita Hill. Dolly’s 2018 TED Talk was viewed more than 1.5...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
emphasizes the power of fate and serendipity in finding love. How do you respond to those who find your proactive approach too contrived? If there’s one pet peeve I have after 10 years in the love business, it’s people’s complete faith in fate. View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
adopted home state of Montana, Siebel had spent around $30 million of his own money to “un-sell” the drug, hiring highly regarded Hollywood directors to create graphic, disturbing commercials depicting its harrowing physical and...
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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
quality and that only happens by iterating. If we lock in the story, we will be disappointed. I can't do it. I know it would save us pain, but Hollywood is littered with films that refused to change." By refusing to lock a story, Pixar...
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- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
global standard. This was historically contingent on the unique circumstances prevailing at that time, but once the standard was in place, the marketing and branding strategies of firms helped to make it reinforcing. The momentum behind this standard was reinforced by...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
(MBA 1989) (St. Martin's Griffin) The story of a French woman perfumer who escapes from Europe at the beginning of World War II and seeks (and finds) success in Los Angeles as a perfumer and fashion designer to the Hollywood elite. Lenses...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
boxes on the way to promotion. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/418031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-042 LeBron James: Building a Hollywood Empire It is June 2016. Superstar basketball player LeBron...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
working on and believe in what you’re doing because you’re pushing a boulder up a hill every single day.” When Teddy Zee (MBA 1984) went to Hollywood over twenty years ago, MBAs were a rare commodity. “We were the new toys,” he recalls of...
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- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
starting a computer dating service (almost before there were computers), selling and installing waterbeds, launching discotheques in drive-in movies, trying to invent a new kind of lasagna pan, producing a just-miss Hollywood movie, or...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
probably win some guests over with your pet-friendly policy, too. People love their pets. When you’re friendly to their pets, it’s like being friendly to their kids. When we opened the Hotel Monaco in Portland, Oregon, we had searchlights and a red carpet — it was like...
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- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
of the happiest countries in spite of a tumultuous history, low life expectancy, a dismal literacy rate, a small and undiversified economy, and low GDP per capita. Everyone, it seemed, from tourists and Hollywood screenwriters to leading...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
9.88 in 1988 to 36. In January 2003 the stock price rose to 71.23. Reflecting on how they handled the crisis, Cronk said, "It was a common trust and of sharing the facts—openness we weren't sugarcoating anything, putting a Hollywood...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
analysis but by values. Chainsaw Al Dunlap, a real person with a Hollywood moniker, told us that a dollar earned by killing a job was just as valuable as one earned by producing a valuable product, and Wall Street was seduced, even though...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)