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Warner Bro's alum to speak at Union
Megan Clark
Issue date: 5/28/09 Section: News
With ReUnion weekend around the corner, many Union alums will be visiting the campus for the first time in many years. For Union alum Alan Horn '64, the President and Chief Operating Officer of Warner Brothers Entertainment, this weekend will be his first visit back to Union in over 25 years.
When asked to speak Alumni weekend, Horn jumped at the opportunity to see his alma mater for the first time in many years. As President & Chief Operating Officer of Warner Brothers, Horn has been at the forefront of successful films such as "The Dark Knight", the "Harry Potter" films, "300", and many more. After graduating from Union with a degree in economics, Horn enrolled in the Air Force and eventually continued his education at Harvard Business School and graduated in 1972.
When asked how Union prepared him for the real world, Horn began to reminisce on his life as a young adult here at Union: "Although Union did not necessarily prepare me for my current job, when I was at Union there were only 1,000 students and it turned out to be a good transition for me," Horn explains. "It's a critical period, the ages 18 to 22, a tremendous amount of maturation occurs during that period and during that important time I happened to be in a nurturing environment".
Although Union may not have entirely prepared him for his current job as the President & COO of Warner Bros., "I received a fine education from a highly ranked school that prepared me for life," Horn stated.
Horn's speech this ReUnion weekend will offer his unique perspective on the movie business, "As President of Warner Brothers Entertainment I'm responsible from A to Z with our motion picture program, the biggest business in motion pictures today," Horn stated.
Horn will show the process green-lighting, deciding which scripts to turn into movies, is more than simply intuition. "My job involves the management of creativity," Horn said.
Horn hopes to offer insight on the processes behind major motion pictures. "I want to talk about the thought process behind green-lighting and what it is like to be in the movie business. How do you pick movies? Where do social factors come into play?"
When asked to speak Alumni weekend, Horn jumped at the opportunity to see his alma mater for the first time in many years. As President & Chief Operating Officer of Warner Brothers, Horn has been at the forefront of successful films such as "The Dark Knight", the "Harry Potter" films, "300", and many more. After graduating from Union with a degree in economics, Horn enrolled in the Air Force and eventually continued his education at Harvard Business School and graduated in 1972.
When asked how Union prepared him for the real world, Horn began to reminisce on his life as a young adult here at Union: "Although Union did not necessarily prepare me for my current job, when I was at Union there were only 1,000 students and it turned out to be a good transition for me," Horn explains. "It's a critical period, the ages 18 to 22, a tremendous amount of maturation occurs during that period and during that important time I happened to be in a nurturing environment".
Although Union may not have entirely prepared him for his current job as the President & COO of Warner Bros., "I received a fine education from a highly ranked school that prepared me for life," Horn stated.
Horn's speech this ReUnion weekend will offer his unique perspective on the movie business, "As President of Warner Brothers Entertainment I'm responsible from A to Z with our motion picture program, the biggest business in motion pictures today," Horn stated.
Horn will show the process green-lighting, deciding which scripts to turn into movies, is more than simply intuition. "My job involves the management of creativity," Horn said.
Horn hopes to offer insight on the processes behind major motion pictures. "I want to talk about the thought process behind green-lighting and what it is like to be in the movie business. How do you pick movies? Where do social factors come into play?"
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