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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Africa Business Conference Creates Ongoing Forum for Change
Business Conference, “Africa, Inc.: A New Frontier for Business.” In addition to keynote speakers, panel discussions, and case analyses, the conference, sponsored by the HBS Africa Business Club, featured a Friday afternoon film festival...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
Global Symposium attended by German, Swiss, and Austrian leaders from business, government, and academia, was sponsored jointly by the School’s Division of Research and Faculty Development and Global Initiative. Faculty cochairs Juan...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
blockbuster projects we just can't seem to get enough of. Your book's thesis suggests that, in the business of entertainment, big moves are the best moves. That's right. Many people think that making many small bets is playing it safe. They think that if you're a View Details
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
be a skill I could use in my career,” Amed says by phone from London. In fact, Amed has developed a worldwide following by employing those very same qualities. Launched in 2007, his website The Business of Fashion attracts more than...
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- 05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
someday be a patron of the arts, even though I didn’t know what that meant at the time.” Following Dartmouth, Joyner entered HBS, where she developed a vast network of relationships within her cohort and beyond, finding “a holistic,...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2014
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Screen Saver
take a company rooted in its history, in one kind of business, and develop a strategy and execution around migrating that experience from the traditional venue of our retail stores into new business areas and channels of distribution,"...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
In the middle of her second year at HBS, Ilene Lang sat in the MBA Program Office trying to convince an administrator to let her take a documentary film course at MIT for credit. As she made her pitch, then Associate Dean of Student...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
additional applications for the technology that Fuji had developed for the analog film market. So instead of focusing only on digital imaging, the obvious substitute for analog photography, Fuji now has the...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Flight Path
engineers devoted a good chunk of 2015 and most of 2016 to developing a drone that could be piloted in real time through a complex, three-dimensional course of gates and obstacles. That meant creating a lightning-fast radio system and...
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Julia Hanna
- 10 Oct 2014
- News
Chicago Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
and Campaign Vice Chair and Chicago Regional Chair Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Two inspiring new films – My HBS and A Vision for the Future – highlighted the impact of the School and its faculty and alumni on the major challenges facing...
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HBS Campaign
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
on their smartphone within the last month. That trend is fostering a next generation of entrepreneurs developing new revenue models that aren’t built around the traditional program formats, a shift that writers and producers are taking...
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HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
step back and ask, What are the big projects that we want to work on, and who will be dedicated to these projects? When we had 282 projects, nobody was dedicated 100 percent to anything. Now we have dedicated teams.” Gaining control over an unwieldy product View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
open systems that can be leveraged by anyone will thrive over closed, proprietary systems; I think of the United States as an open system in that sense." One of Ranadivé's earliest dreams was to study at MIT, which he learned of through a documentary View Details
- 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. Hollywood View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
depends on a scientific breakthrough: a time machine. It’s his only hope to regain the full life intended for him. When the film was made, Fox was a boyish 24-year-old, vigorous, athletic, and graceful. Six years later, in 1991, he...
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- 09 Mar 2023
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Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Association of Boston Commemorates Centennial In 2023, the HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) is commemorating its Centennial Year with activities and events aimed at celebrating a century of alumni accomplishments, exploring the trends shaping...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
company in developing a new drug.” The case “E Ink in 2005” charts the multiple rounds of financing E Ink attracted over the years from a range of private investors, venture capital firms, and technology and publishing companies,...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
1999), program manager, Strategic Decisions Group Diane and Peter Escher (both MBA 2009) Children: Hazel (4); Josh (2) Diane and Peter both work for startups in downtown Seattle, commuting to different floors of the same building. Diane is business View Details