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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
market. “Many summer internships were canceled,” explains Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), managing director of HBS’s Career & Professional Development (CPD). “Graduating students who already had job offers saw their start dates delayed, and those interested in hard-hit...
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- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
PowerPoint looked. I thought there might be something more I could do by marrying my right-brain and left-brain abilities.” As he approached his 30th birthday, Amed knew he had to take a risk. He quit his job and began exploring the music, television, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
draws the most viewers and revenue (as opposed to just drawing buzz). And everyone in the entertainment industry will keep trying to understand how to best leverage social media—or control it when fans' and critics' reactions aren't...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
tradeoff between bold commitments rarely leading to success and timid strategies ensuring mere survival. Raynor explains how leaders can resolve the tradeoff and achieve results usually reserved for the few as they reduce the risks they must accept. The Presidents on...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
stands out as the rare commodity that remains as lucrative in the good times as the bad, since we don’t switch off the radio—or stop watching the films or TV shows that license music and generate revenues—when the economy sours. The last...
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- 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...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
about generating “tens of thousands of ideas” for each film, and “allowing” creativity to burst forth. She left excited, wanting to know more about how all that creative energy was harnessed to create one hit film after another. So...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sands of Time
Well before he arrived at HBS, Michel Ray de Carvalho (MBA 1970) had led a charmed life. But it was only destined to get better. Already a veteran child actor at 17, he was tapped to play one of Peter O'Toole's young Arab sidekicks in the View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
for soccer fans, FirstRowSports. The NFL’s as-yet-unnamed foray into online streaming will test the waters with an October 25 game only available online. The cable and telecom industry has taken note, evidenced by its heavy lobbying...
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Julia Hanna;
HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
a new industry. Weeks later, even while struggling to learn some new task in the wee hours of the morning, I would realize what an incredible experience this had become. I went incognito at four of our properties. The cover story was that the View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
undergo renovation. "For years, every measure of success in our industry was driven by quantity," Lopez observes. "How many buildings, how many screens, how many seats? We turned that equation around and began to focus on quality." AMC's...
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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 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
executive to New York playwright has had a number of surprises. He left the corporate world after successful stints with Coca-Cola and American Express to help take care of his ill father and never went back. Turning to his creative side, he began writing for View Details
- 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 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
Fuji Photo Film combined interests to steal low-end printer share from Canon, both companies wanted to have a markup over their own separate costs, which would have created an overpriced product. The eventual answer was a carefully...
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- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
favorite line in Spotlight. “A good case presents a set of facts and pushes the reader to ask certain questions. That’s what I want to do too.” Advancing a career in any industry requires some entrepreneurial verve, but that’s especially...
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- 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...
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Julia Hanna
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
learning, for change. After graduating from Yale and Harvard Business School, I knew that I had to get into the industry that had impacted me as a young woman, so I could ultimately use media to impact other women like me. “I subsequently...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
bucks made renting out its ubiquitous terminals. Or how News Corp.’s film and TV numbers conveniently hide the rounding error that is the Wall Street Journal. One commentator even proposed that the nation’s wealthiest universities set...
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