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- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
around the different extrinsic and intrinsic motivations underlying each of these party's approach to the movie and, therefore, to the negotiation. The exercise allows exploration of the risks of "monetizing" different types of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
doubt eased the fundraising that followed. Almost a dozen major movie studios participated in the initial round of funding in the summer of 2018, including Disney, Entertainment One, Fox, ITV, Lionsgate, MGM, NBCUniversal, Sony, Viacom,...
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- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
capital flowing into space. Course materials included Weinzierl’s cases on SpaceX and Blue Origin, with guest speakers from those companies and other industry leaders and investors, as well as recommended movies such as Gravity, The...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Making A Beautiful Planet was the most important thing I did as an astronaut, because so many people have seen it as an IMAX movie and will see it in the future. I came away from that experience thinking, you know, all is not lost. Earth...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
unquenchable appetite for growth and capital. You might remember this scene from 2010’s The Social Network: Movie clip That was a fictionalized telling of Facebook’s rise, but those numbers are real. Silicon Valley produced 32 unicorns in...
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- 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...
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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...
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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
example, buying a ping-pong table, TV, or online movie subscription for the family to enjoy together might make you happier than purchasing a phone to use by yourself, he says. Also, the research shows spending money on other people makes...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
first-of-its-kind, three-year agreement with Hollywood studio Warner Bros. Entertainment that gave SpringHill Entertainment a first-look movie deal, an exclusive television deal, significant development resources that also could be used...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
live concerts and merchandising (for music) and product placements (for movies and network shows), will become essential for the financial health of media companies. This will involve setting up "creative" contracts with artists...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
is the theme of every Disney movie I watched as a kid. Why is it so hard for us to forgo that chase? Your dreams are liars. Here’s the problem: Your genetic proclivities are not biasing you toward happiness. They’ve biased you toward...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 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
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Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
(especially chess). Favorite movies are Moana and Frozen. What has been the best part of being a mom at HBS? Always having the sweetest cuddles as soon as you get home! But also, the ability to prioritize time at home without as much...
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- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shot to death in a police car in 1941 because he laughed while standing in line at a movie theatre with his girlfriend. Or how about the hate that led to Timothy Hood’s, murder in the back of a police car? He was a World War II veteran...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
long term, financial and otherwise—than is readily apparent. All of us can get carried away with a seemingly good idea taken to excess. Everyone knows the famous movie line, when Gordon Gekko told us that “greed is good.” Do any of us...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Erasing Racism Louis (Lou) Gossett Jr.’s exemplary life included a groundbreaking career in entertainment and a bold and audacious goal to erase racism. From the Broadway stage to television and the movie screen, Gossett earned major...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Business School Case 610-036 Examines the process used by a major motion picture studio to develop and select movie projects. Warner Bros.' strategy is to focus its efforts on a small number of major "event" films (i.e., films...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
order when should DVDs are rented before want DVDs. Specifically, a 1.3% increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline rate of 12%) ensues if the first of two sequentially rented movies has more should and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“The fire is at this end. Why flood the room?” That’s what Sony Pictures did. When hackers broke into the movie studio’s network in 2014—inflicting a reported $35 million in IT damages—administrators at Sony just shut the whole network...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai