Filter Results
:
(86)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(215)
- News (86)
- Research (90)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (41)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(215)
- News (86)
- Research (90)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (41)
Sort by
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The...
View Details
Keywords:
Robert Bochnak
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Now Starring: Single Dad
5, 2010). It was also a time when the concept of “single dad” was largely unfamiliar to many Americans. After graduating from Harvard College, Wand and Robby lived in Arlington, Massachusetts, while Wand was a student at HBS. Despite the movie’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a...
View Details
Keywords:
Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Turning Point: Listen to the Music
distributing foreign films in addition to making B-movie classics like The Wild Angels with Peter Fonda and Bloody Mama with Shelley Winters and Robert De Niro. I dumbed down my résumé and got the job but was outed as a Harvard MBA when the View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
in the Northeast, responsible for everything from running the projectors to selling more than 1 million pounds of popcorn each year. To help Hollywood fill seats, O'Donnell bought Allied Advertising, which, with the clout befitting the...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
soon the storm of allegations would draw undeniably close. In November, the award-winning screenwriter Jenny Lumet published a first-person account in the Hollywood Reporter of being violated in 1991 by Russell Simmons, the king of...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
members they’d been cast to play: John; his wife, Aileen; John Jr.; Megan; and Patrick. But the eeriest moment was coming face-to-face with his Hollywood “family.” “They were putting together photo shoots re-creating our family pictures...
View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
Angeles for the premier Hollywood Trek, where they joined a total of 45 HBSers interested in the entertainment industry and the Internet. Meanwhile, in London, more than 90 students from the School were experiencing a full agenda of...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
Monte (“End of the Santa Fe Trail”) remains a magnet for prostitutes, particularly transvestites. Police dub them “heeshees” (he/shes); some dress in spiky heels and miniskirts, sporting silicone implants (done in Mexico) that a Hollywood...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Barnes & Noble took over B. Dalton, and Borders came to run Waldenbooks. With the fall of the mall chain and the rise of the superstore, analysts announced the death of the independent bookstore for a second time. Hollywood even wrote a...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
The Most Powerful Woman in Chinese Entertainment
The Hollywood Reporter scored the first interview with Zhang Wei (MBA 1999), president of the Alibaba Group’s new film division. In a Q&A, Zhang, whom the publication calls “most powerful woman in Chinese entertainment,” shared her vision...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)
Facebook are all in the entertainment space. Alibaba Pictures doesn’t replicate a traditional Hollywood studio. We want to use the data and resources Alibaba has gathered in our e-commerce and internet ecosystem to create, market, and...
View Details
Keywords:
Julia Hanna
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
A bit of Hollywood came to HBS recently when Steven Samuels spoke at the invitation of the School’s Entertainment and Media Club. A former real estate developer, Samuels is an independent movie producer with a solid body of work under his...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
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...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
be introduced to this man’s remarkable life in This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood (Harmony Books, 2007). It’s not a bad substitute. Given the book’s conversational, anecdotal style, it’s easy to get a...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
Dan Lin on what it takes to be a Hollywood producer on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Dan Lin on what it takes to be a Hollywood producer on our new Skydeck podcast Play is at the center of the Danish...
View Details
Keywords:
Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
States and from international markets and skyrocketing production costs pose huge challenges to the movie industry. Film- production costs alone, Vogel pointed out, have risen 9.5 percent annually since 1980. Strauss Zelnick agreed, noting that as recently as a few...
View Details
Keywords:
Paula Maute
- 29 Oct 2019
- News
Is This Disney’s Next CEO?
all, turned Disney’s film business into the envy of the industry. Last year, the division earned a record $3 billion profit, the most ever for a Hollywood studio.” The piece opens with a mention of Mayer’s habit of returning to HBS to...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Built to Last
Weisiger at Carolina Tractor & Equipment: laying a foundation for employee development and company values The third generation to lead Carolina Tractor & Equipment (CTE), Ed Weisiger Jr. (MBA 1986) wants to rewrite the typical Hollywood...
View Details
- 14 Oct 2021
- News
Disney’s Alan Horn to Retire
notes that he is distinct in his field. Hollywood can be a cutthroat world, and many successful people leave a wake of damage, but Alan Horn is not one of them. Former and current colleagues are in awe of his talent, his demeanor, and his...
View Details