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- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
the scene for what happened next, because we took an hour long flight over vast remote green plains with barely any village in sight and landed several miles from a fairly large clump of ultramodern buildings, which looked like a Florida View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
coverage of shark ‘attacks’ and by highlighting shark-on-human violence in popular movies and documentaries. In this study, we investigate another subtler yet powerful factor that contributes to this fear: the ominous background music... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
changes on jobs, tax base, and blight as you lose thousands and thousands of stores around the country?” Q: Are some malls still working well? Alvarez: Some you see succeeding are experience-based malls, ones that have restaurants, movie... View Details
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
is using eye-tracking software to monitor participants' viewing patterns as they look at pictures and short movie clips. Almost without fail, they look at faces before their eyes go anywhere else—even if the faces are inanimate, Looser... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
settlement and formally apologizes on behalf of the British government, June 2013 Shortly thereafter, John Hart, the movie producer behind Boys Don’t Cry and Revolutionary Road, bought the rights to develop a film based on Imperial... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
founded Netflix to provide a home movie service that would do a better job satisfying customers than the traditional retail rental model. But as it encountered challenges it underwent several major strategy shifts, ultimately developing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
little bit like the movie business. In years when you have Lord of the Rings, life is wonderful. But in years when you have Hollywood Cop, it's miserable. In the years in which Apple has missed or hasn't had hit products, life has been... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Reinvention of Kodak The Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) was a name familiar to most Americans. The company had dominated the film and photography industry through most of the 20th Century and was known for making affordable cameras (and the “Kodak Moment”) and supplying... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
no services. Macomber has spent time doing research in such an environment, the sprawling Mumbai slum of Dharavi, where scenes from the movie Slumdog Millionaire were filmed. As described in an HBS case he cowrote, the $3 billion... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
be able to help,” Walsh said. It’s not quite what is portrayed in movies such as Iron Man, where ordinary people are given superhuman strength. “From an engineering point of view, this is extremely hard Soft wearable robots don’t give... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Starting a job can feel like stepping onto a movie set without a script. Everyone knows the plot; the challenge is figuring out the role. Managers often know what they want from top performers but rarely explain it. That perspective... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
represents what actually gets done. Strategic integrity is when emergent and directed strategies are one and the same thing: when the strategy executes with the full, aligned backing of the organization for maximum impact. When a strategy lacks integrity it's like... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
from the most extreme want to the most extreme should movie increasing the odds of a preference reversal by 10%. Similarly, we also predict and find that should DVDs are held significantly longer than want DVDs. Our study ties together... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
movie actor. You can still deliver a great performance but in a different way. DL: I just think that there are preferences that people have that would drive them, one way or the other, whether online or in the classroom. SS: You said that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
"the virtual movie studio" by Gordon Radley, president of Lucasfilm. In the Real World Once the speeches, panel discussions, and video displays had concluded, conference participants took to the field on March 22 for a day of company... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly traded company providing digital video services and equipment to major View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
competitive landscape, Cineplanet, the leading movie cinema chain in Peru, hired a team of IDEO designers to reinvent the movie-going experience for Peruvians. Cineplanet’s management team wishes to better align the company’s operating... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
recruited star with a track record of box office successes or with a strong artistic reputation. Finally, in an extension to the study, I do not find that the involvement of stars in movies increases the valuation of film companies that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
There are few cultural attractions; Monrovia has only one movie theater, and it’s overrun by cats. But the beach is very nice. Anyway, I’m always working. I don’t have much time for diversion. COMTE: Close to Miami, a piece of France in... View Details