Just heard from 1L Ben Wu that he has a fun summer job lined up:
“My summer position is in Corporate Development at Marvel Studios, the Beverly Hills-based West Coast and filmmaking arm of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (producers of Spider-Man and X-Men). I’ll be reporting to the Chairman of Marvel Studios, David Maisel, an HBS graduate, and will be working on strategy and finance projects to build their film and licensing businesses. Marvel Studios just raised a $525 million debt facility to build an in-house movie studio. This summer the studio is filming its first Marvel-produced movie, Iron Man, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey, Jr. It is exciting because I will be there to assist and witness the business evolve from a pure licensing-based model to a production-based model.”
We’ll check back with him this summer to find out how it’s going…
