Andrew Gumpert
President of worldwide business affairs and operations at Columbia Pictures. Worked as senior vp business and legal affairs at Weinstein's Miramax (1996-2004)
Biggest takeaway: "Harvey was a big proponent of getting in the room with the other side," says Gumpert. "He believed you literally had to be face-to-face to close a deal." Now at Sony, Gumpert relies on that strategy whenever a deal stalls, sometimes jumping in his car and popping up unexpectedly to iron out the kinks in person, as he did recently on the Brad Pitt film Fury. "I said I did what Harvey and Bob [Weinstein] would've wanted me to do. I closed the deal."