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15 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday

Amazon's low costs and reduced shipping rates. In these cases, however, Gupta believes Amazon has and can exploit a distinct advantage. "Amazon offers a lot more benefits, like their streaming music and movie services," Gupta... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail

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IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design | Information Technology

Featured Case IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design The multimedia case takes viewers behind the scenes of a human-centered design company, IDEO, as they embrace the shifting demands of their global client base. The case examines IDEO’s work for Cineplanet, the largest... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Incentives and Operational Excellence

on the retailer’s shelf, however, is less than $3. Demand for an individual movie is highly uncertain and usually declines rapidly after the first few weeks, Narayanan said. One contracting solution to bridge the divide between studios... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

Portrait Project

Carl Petty

to go unsaid or someone to not know how important they are. A quote from a favorite movie – Breaker Morant - serves as my guide: "Live every day as though it were your last – one day you're sure to be right." View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

for desired specimens in real time. Chicago: Cinekin (Constance Freedman, MBA ’06, chief strategy officer) uses people’s movie preferences to predict the compatibility of couples. London: Qtara (Steve Berry, MBA ’79, chairman) is... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2015
News

Five-Star Research

a star. Elite reviewers—a Yelp-awarded certification—have nearly double the impact of other reviewers. In another study looking at movie reviews, Luca found that consumer reviews could correctly predict expert reviews 85 percent of the... View Details

Keywords: April White; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2015
News

The Protagonist Goes Prime Time

To create a multimedia case about IDEO’s creative process, a video crew from HBS’s Educational Technology Services followed a design team through each step of a project with Peru-based movie theater chain Cineplanet. (Photos courtesy of... View Details

Keywords: April White

03 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

Sharks have been stigmatized on screen for decades, from the 1975 movie Jaws, in which a gigantic great white shark terrorizes a resort island off the coast of Massachusetts, to the 2013 movie Sharknado, in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting

Profile

Claire Freidman

industries. Plus, I have to admit that I'm looking forward to working on a movie lot. How has HBS prepared you for your current role & your long term career? I was able to take advantage of a lot of great resources at HBS to prepare... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Technology

15 May 2013
Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

before innovations like bunless sandwiches and boneless ribs, Disney began harnessing the power of limited availability by making its movies available for limited periods. The company locks away Dumbo, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and other... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton

27 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring Claire Friedman...

productions including the MTV Movie Awards, an upcoming concert special for Fox, and Dwayne Johnson's Rock the Troops. I'm also serving as the Executive in Charge of our Lip Sync Battle Franchise. How has having an MBA impacted your... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

Facebook will automatically display an advertisement for a substitute nanny who has worked for four close friends and who can step in and pick up my child. Granted, this has the heavy feel of the movie "Minority Report" taken to... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

01 Sep 2010
News

Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

Lovell began a career in telecommunications. He also coauthored Lost Moon, a book that inspired the movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. Lovell now serves on several space-related boards and is an advocate for... View Details

Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

Profile

Marc Wilson

Like lots of young people in the U.S., Marc Wilson had dreams of space travel "inspired by comic books and movies like Star Wars." And like many of them, Marc wondered, "Why isn’t that possible?" But unlike most of... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

01 Apr 2000
News

At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths

movie theaters did with the advent of television. Myth #2: There are no barriers to entry on the Internet. What about the huge sums, asked Bezos, that Amazon and other e-commerce companies invest in their businesses? Barriers to entry are... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Snapping Up Voters

in the contrasts he draws with the medium that still commands the bulk of campaign budgets—which, in the case of the upcoming presidential election, are estimated to swell to a combined $5 billion. Unlike on YouTube, where ads run before the main attraction like a... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

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IFC: LA/Hollywood

Where can I find entertainment & media industry/market analysis, company data and news? OVERVIEWS AND ANALYSIS IBISWorld
Research reports on a wide range of industries, including Cable Networks, Television Production, and View Details

14 Jul 2010
News

The Concerts in the Chapel

movie sound tracks from the 1940s and ’50s), gospel music, a duo concert by the She-E-Os and Heard on the Street (HBS’s own student a capella groups), and jazz. Rishi recalls no concert catastrophes more serious than a tenor being delayed... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 1999
News

Moir Donelson

West Point, where he learned the Cadet Prayer: "Lord give me strength to choose the harder right over the easier wrong." He calls upon this strength frequently. Back in Chicago during a college break, for example, an old friend sneaked into a View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

21 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

describe a study in which several participants watched a movie while eating popcorn. Some received fresh popcorn, while others were given week-old, stale popcorn. The researchers found that those participants who always ate popcorn at the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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