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- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
would not want to go to a movie where somebody had told you the ending. The excitement of going to a sports event comes from not knowing who will win. The same is true in business. Entrepreneurs rarely start businesses just for the money.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
decisions regarding what to do with these films: They could put them on DVDs, or run them in movie theaters before feature films, or do any number of other things. What’s the takeaway from the case? One surprise is that the method of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
Unlike the culture-shocked Russian who defected to America in the movie Moscow on the Hudson, Lithuanian-born Herman Safin arrived at HBS already familiar with the ways of the West. Beginning with his high-school years in the former... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 08 May 2025
- Blog Post
Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)
and I spent our summers building businesses so we could buy Starbucks beverages or movie tickets without asking for money from our parents. Our most successful endeavor was a dog-walking business—we had rewards programs, fancy... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
on average, firms' self-reported anticorruption efforts reflect real efforts to combat corruption and are not merely cheap talk. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2229039 When to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Films & TV | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Visit & Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search U.S. Steel Resources Films & TV Films & TV By the mid-1950s, U.S. Steel had produced sixteen films seen by millions of Americans in View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
very powerful people, including Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein. Kroll's work even inspired the 2000 movie Proof of Life. Nearly a decade after the View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings determined that a 10% improvement to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
The CG process at Pixar was based on the use and value of integration because that process followed a simple principle: no part of a movie is finally done until the entire movie is all done. Anything and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
end of the studio’s decade-long string of successes that included Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo—each movie breaking new ground in its own way, pushing the boundaries in terms of both technology and storytelling. It was... View Details
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
Guess? Tommy's wireless device has GPS-like location-sensing capabilities.) Tommy's tempted, but he's running late to meet Jenny—and she wanted to go to a movie anyway. Still, it can't hurt to ask her. He pushes a button and calls Jenny.... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
have been struggling for years to develop new products that don't rely on movie tie-ins. How can this be? "Inside the large manufacturers you've got middle managers who want to put forward only those products that look like what's... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
novel that describes a clash of cultures in French and Indian cuisines that makes the food live through human drama. Morais’s carefully researched story takes the reader from Bombay to London, Lumière, and Paris. It’s now the basis for a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
somewhat different, given the ongoing nature of the Disney story. Like any good Hollywood movie — packed with plot twists and memorable characters — it promises to keep its audience guessing for the foreseeable future. — Julia Hanna... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
historical development not unlike the advent of television, which did not eclipse the movie industry, radio, or print, for that matter. So we can expect to keep our books around for a while? Certainly. In terms of dollars, the number of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
executive coach who has garnered plaudits from numerous corporate leaders and from celebrities such as Larry King, Woody Allen, and David Letterman (“he’s as good as Houdini”). With a Ph.D. in social psychology, Randal is a singer-songwriter who plays five instruments.... View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
There's a famous line from the movie The Godfather, which is often repeated in corporate settings: "This is business, not personal." Ironically, though, that statement is actually bad business advice. During the Consortium for Operational... View Details
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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
such a worthwhile cause! Joshua Rodriguez (MBA 2020): For our first project, we were given the hypothetical task to pitch a go-to-market strategy for a new movie studio to a major technology company. We analyzed publicly available View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
you enjoy them so much." Kraus talks about the movie The Bucket List and the character played by Jack Nicholson, whose sole goal was professional success. The character played by Morgan Freeman was focused on being a good family man.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
Jetta ads use real-time crashes to emphasize the car’s safety. How would you respond to critics? The two permissible ways to demonstrate safety in commercials in the past involved crash dummies or showing a car weaving to avoid an obstacle. But in View Details