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Once an IT staffer at HBS, José Royo (MBA ’98) is CEO of Ascent Media Group, which provides postproduction and digital media services to Hollywood’s major movie studios. Royo earned a Ph.D. in East Asian studies from Harvard, where he was an adjunct professor while also helping to set up HBS’s intranet service. At the urging of former Dean Kim Clark , he enrolled in the MBA Program.
On his switch from academia to the private sector, Royo explained to the Los Angeles Times (December 6, 2009), “Back in 1997 and 1998, there was an enormous sense of excitement about this thing called the Internet and about how it was going to transform our lives. I felt if I could somehow be a part of that, I could have a more profound effect on the lives of people than a more narrowly defined career in Asian studies.”
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