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- December 1994
- Case
Being There: Sony Corporation and Columbia Pictures
By: Debora L. Spar
In September 1989, Sony Corp. of Japan bid $3.4 billion for Columbia Pictures. It was the highest bid ever by a Japanese company for any U.S. property. The case examines the validity of Sony's objectives in making this purchase, and also the political uproar that the...
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Foreign Direct Investment;
Film Entertainment;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Japan;
United States
Spar, Debora L., and Julia Kou. "Being There: Sony Corporation and Columbia Pictures." Harvard Business School Case 795-025, December 1994.
- Web
Leadership Initiative - Leadership
coaching certification from Columbia University. Ann Le Cam Executive Fellow As an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School (HBS), Ann combines her extensive career as a senior leader with new academic research about the mindsets...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
University. Mittal is a VP and head of mergers and acquisitions at the Game Show Network, Sony Pictures Entertainment. Prior to this, she served as a partner at Terawatt Ventures, where she led investments in early-stage technology...
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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
really paying attention to. It turns out from our research, it matters a lot.” Going beyond the term sheet McDonald, along with Columbia University’s Dan Wang and Emily Cox Pahnke from the University of Washington, examined 71,624 funding...
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by Rachel Layne
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Past Issues - Alumni
took on her hardest challenge: the Scranton School Board. Can she help turn it around before it’s too late? Complete Table of Contents September 2018 Havana Rising Megumi Gordon and the impossible adventure of building a business in Cuba’s ascendant private sector...
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- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. The researchers believe their work could open new directions in big data analysis, combining image and textual analysis to create a more complete View Details
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by Michael Blanding
Roberto C. Goizueta
In a shrewd acquisition, Goizueta purchased Columbia Pictures for $750 million in 1982. Three years later, Columbia was Coca-Cola’s second most successful enterprise bringing...
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Food & Tobacco
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts onboard. In a new multimedia case, “Columbia’s Final Mission,” by HBS assistant professors Michael...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
position that would blend my creative and management interests. Although I love dogs, it turned out that marketing dog food didn’t provide me with enough creative exercise. So I sidestepped into working for the vice chairman of the motion-picture division of View Details
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
really paying attention to. It turns out from our research, it matters a lot.” Going beyond the term sheet McDonald, along with Columbia University’s Dan Wang and Emily Cox Pahnke from the University of Washington, examined 71,624 funding...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
modernist sensibility in his sharp, detailed portrayals of mining pits, factory operations, research laboratories, and expansive plants that reveal the human as well as technical aspects of the steel-making process. Fritz Henle. Tin plate inspection, View Details
- 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 his early days at Paramount....
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- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
the United States, two new states, Alaska and Oregon, as well as the District of Columbia had legalized the recreational sale of marijuana. They joined Washington and Colorado, which legalized pot in the 2012 election, as well as two...
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- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: In October of last year, curator Denise Murrell’s (MBA 1980) exhibition opened at Columbia University's Wallach Art Gallery, most of it now on display at...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
and British Airways' 1999 Tourism for Tomorrow Award for the Pacific region. Living on Turtle Time The idea of creating a resort, however, occurred to Evanson only after Columbia Pictures requested...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
University of British Columbia (courtesy Office of John McArthur) McArthur grew up in the suburbs of Vancouver, where he would go on to attend the University of British Columbia (courtesy Office of John...
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Dean
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
picked the word “zipper,” and one of the guys from England made up this elaborate business theory that intertwined something or other (I can still picture him intertwining his fingers as he spoke) that in the end he claimed was called the...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
had done well for themselves and enjoyed sharing their good fortune. Recognizing McArthur’s potential, the Koerners offered to help finance his college education — an unusual next step for members of his high-school class. He and Natty enrolled at the University of...
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