The Multimedia Development team has extensive experience with the case method and deep expertise in the use of pioneering, interactive learning technologies to enhance teaching and learning. The award-winning team has a 30-year track record of successfully delivering reliable, smartly designed multimedia teaching products. The team works closely with faculty to meet pedagogical goals and steward cases from concept and field research to classroom use and distribution through Harvard Business Publishing.
Since 1995, the team has filmed in hundreds of locations across five continents, partnering with faculty to produce media-rich case studies on companies and organizations including NASA, Chobani, Zappos, IDEO, Bridgewater Associates, Coca Cola, Siemens, Jazz at Lincoln Center, lululemon, Eataly, Taj Hotels, Kodak, Havas, and Burt’s Bees.
The Multimedia Development team is deeply thoughtful about the student journey, and the cases are beautiful. Students, executives, and my colleagues from other schools are always impressed. The cases engage students in a different way. Classes are more fun. The impact is powerful.
Ryan W. Buell, C. D. Spangler Professor of Business Administration
It is inspiring to experience your craft. Your creativity, attention to detail, and ability to mix storytelling with deep learning are inspiring. It always makes me feel fortunate to be at HBS to see how you take raw ideas and interviews and fashion them into a case.
Joshua D. Margolis, James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration
Ruth brings than 35 years of industry experience to her role as Director of the Multimedia Development team. Since joining the Harvard Business School in 2008, Ruth has worked with dozens of faculty to produce media-enhanced case materials including The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations, lululemon, Terror at the Taj Bombay, Success Academy, Eataly: Reimagining the Grocery Store, and Chobani. Before joining HBS, she ran a successful video production and media management company for many years, serving a range of corporate, nonprofit, and educational clients. Ruth also has a background in journalism, having served as a reporter and anchor for a nightly cable television news show and for several radio stations, including WBUR and WFNX, where she was news director. When not working with the team, Ruth enjoys snorkeling in the coral reefs of the Caribbean and taking long walks with her rescue pup, Lucy, along Frederick Law Olmsted’s famed Emerald Necklace in Boston.
Dave has worked in Information Technology at the Harvard Business School since 1994. When then-Dean Kim Clark formed a new team to explore ways to infuse technology into the HBS case method, he hand-picked Dave to join the team. Dave served as Head of Multimedia Production from 2000 through 2007. Today he serves as the Multimedia Development team’s Creative Director. He is also a director of photography and video editor. Dave has filmed hundreds of interviews with business leaders, including Hamdi Ulukaya (Chobani), Wynton Marsalis (Jazz at Lincoln Center), Tyra Banks (America’s Top Model), and Tony Hsieh (Zappos) and produced multimedia case studies on companies including Burt’s Bees, Oberoi Hotels, MINI Cooper, Kodak, IDEO, Havas, Victors & Spoils, Marquee, and Threadless. When not behind the camera for HBS, Dave pursues passion projects, including Beautiful Was the Fight, a documentary film he recently directed and produced featuring the stories of female musicians in the Greater Boston Area that was screened at the 2023 Independent Film Festival Boston and other festivals.
Ivan joined Harvard University in 1993 and moved to the Harvard Business School in 2000 where he has produced many video and multimedia cases. He began his career working in advertising in France for clients including Air France, Chanel, and Christian Dior. Ivan specialized in video post-production and emerging technologies for online video delivery during the early stages of streaming video. Ivan studied computer science and multimedia and served as a teaching assistant in the Advanced Multimedia course at the Harvard Extension School. He founded and co-chaired the Harvard ABCD Video and Multimedia Group. Today, Ivan’s focus is primarily web development, UI design, and product innovation. When not at his workstation, Ivan enjoys (somewhat) competitive golfing with a league west of Boston and playing blues piano.
Matt began his career at the Harvard Business School with the Case Research and Writing Group, where he worked closely with faculty to research and write case studies. Over his nine years in that role, he wrote dozens of case studies on companies ranging in size and scale from startups to Fortune 500 corporations, including Aetna, Big Spaceship, Chobani, DaVita, Dick's Sporting Goods, Kids & Company, MOD Pizza, the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, the National Football League, PepsiCo, Polaroid, Unilever, and Value Retail. In 2019, Matt became a senior researcher working in close partnership with a faculty member to design, launch, and regularly reimagine an MBA elective curriculum course. He joined the IT Multimedia Development team in 2022 as a multimedia producer. When not producing cases, Matt spends his time running the back roads of Weymouth and the South Shore, or he can be found chasing around his two young sons.
Greg is focused on creating products that help meet the pedagogical goals of our faculty partners. He brings a diverse background as a visual storyteller and strategic communicator to the team, having worked in many production capacities in both entertainment and corporate environments for clients including Sony Music, Gartner, Oracle, and Amazon. He served as lead animator for NBC’s “Heroes Digital Experience,” which won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media. As an animation director and producer, he led a team to create an original Web Series for Travel Channel, which received Webby Nominations for Best Original Animated Series and Webby People's Voice Award. Greg is Board Chairman of the Westport Museum for History and Culture where each year, during the holidays, he appears as Charles Dickens for a public reading of his beloved novel A Christmas Carol.
With a passion for narrative-driven work, Levi is deeply enthusiastic about using the HBS case method to educate and inspire audiences. Throughout his career, he worked in a wide range of multimedia storytelling positions with a focus on documentary filmmaking and educational content. He joined HBS from Fortune Media where he led the ideation and production of video content for the educational program, Fortune Connect, and managed the creation of instructional content for subscribers. Prior to that, Levi served as a video producer for the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. Levi loves rollercoasters and knows “A TON” about sunscreen! (He says if you ever have a question, just ask.)
Sarah began working at the Harvard Business School as an instructional designer. In her time with the team, she has developed skills as a producer, video editor, and project manager. She has assisted HBS faculty in the production and writing of multimedia cases and supplements including Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition: Brian’s Journey, Debbie Millman: Designing a Meaningful Life, Matt Higgins: Resilience and Empathy in Negotiation, What’s Next?, and Leading with Trust: Sarah Al-Suhaimi. Sarah is also a PhD candidate at Boston College in Systematic Theology. She works in contemporary systematic theology with a focus on the 20th c. Russian-Paris émigré school of theological thought, as well as the reception of mystical theology in conversations concerned with intersectionality (sexuality, gender, and race). She also has expertise in trauma theology, French feminism/psychoanalysis, and phenomenology.
Allison joined the Multimedia Development team after serving as a Research Associate at the Harvard Business School for many years. She has co-authored a number of traditional and multimedia case studies, including Man Jit Singh at Sony Entertainment Television, Tom Kalil: Leading Technology and Innovation at the White House, Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia, and Cristina Ventura: Leading Innovation in the Luxury Industry. She holds an EdM in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Allison is also a PhD candidate in Sociology at Boston University. Her research and writing focus on culture, class and inequality, work and occupations, education, family, and social theory. Her current work explores relationships between class and cultural production, with an emphasis on the role of creative actors in producing social change.
In his role as Assistant Multimedia Producer, Chris works with the team and our faculty partners to create media-enhanced case studies and learning products. Chris has a strong background in narrative storytelling and has received national recognition for his work directing, filming, and editing media projects. After graduating from Northeastern University in 2020 with a degree in Business Administration, Chris worked as the Lead Videographer and Editor for a South Shore digital media company, and he founded SkoVenture Media, an agency that provided film production services to small businesses. When the camera is not in hand, Chris is an avid fly fisherman and enjoys long-distance hiking and camping.
Katie Giddings has worked as a graphic designer with the Multimedia Development team since 2001, creating much of the look and feel for the team's products. She lives in Maine with her son and two cats, and, when not working part-time with HBS, she works with local clients through her creative business, ebb studio.
