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Hayling Price
Kennedy School, the real New Rochelle he lived in differed greatly from the broadcast fantasy. "I grew up in the middle of two 'New Rochelles' and lived between two worlds," says Hayling. One of those was close to the television...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
In the motion picture industry, most people know Alan Horn as the smart, savvy chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, the film company that has turned out movie hits such as When Harry Met Sally and In the Line of Fire, as well as the phenomenally successful...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
and closing ceremonies for the Winter Olympic Games, a smash hit enjoyed by a global television audience of hundreds of millions. "Reindeer, sled dogs, and fiddlers were my life for an entire year," laughs the lanky, amiable Høegh. "Then...
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Garry Emmons
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Brian T. Bedol
While there, among many assignments, he took over the marketing and promotion of the Six Flags Theme parks and drove revenues and attendance to an all-time high. But Bedol had long harbored an urge to start his own business and create a classic sports View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios, View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
state-of-the-art graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare today's Web ads with the first...
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Susan Young
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Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets
Guftagoo Archives Bollywood and Beyond: Analyzing the Indian Film Industry through Irfan's Guftagoo Interviews is a research database hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. It focuses on evidence from the popular television series...
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- 26 May 2016
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Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
the most popular television shows ever. He then joined Warner Bros., greenlighting film projects that included three Batman films, Happy Feet, and one of Hollywood’s biggest sensations, the Harry Potter series. “If one just puts his head...
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Susan Young
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
bright blue feet,” he says. “It’s the one place on earth where you feel like you’ve travelled back one million years in a time machine.” Main Wilson attributes his energy and inspiration to his father, Dennis Main Wilson, a well-known radio and View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
School. An Analysis of the Possible Effects of Subscription Television on the Business World , 1957 Dirck Barhydt; Robert H. Clement; Robert P. Hauptfuhrer; Dan W. Lufkin; Chester K. Reichert, Jr.; Donald A. Roach; Bruno H.M.B. Roux de...
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
School. An Analysis of the Possible Effects of Subscription Television on the Business World , 1957 Dirck Barhydt; Robert H. Clement; Robert P. Hauptfuhrer; Dan W. Lufkin; Chester K. Reichert, Jr.; Donald A. Roach; Bruno H.M.B. Roux de...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
the worlds of technology and e-commerce gathered for the daylong "CEO Millennium Forum," an event jointly sponsored by HBS, Microsoft, Forrester Research, and the Wall Street Journal. The forum was also the subject of an hourlong View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
strongest attributes. "In some ways the case method explains why Survivor was such a popular television show," he laughs. "You throw a bunch of people into one classroom and see who shines. I wanted to learn more about people and human...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Writing for Late-Night TV: How to Write Monologue Jokes, Desk Pieces, Sketches, Parodies, Audience Pieces, Remotes, and Other Short-Form Comedy by Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979) Twenty Lane Media LLC Toplyn reveals his proven methods of writing for late-night View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Dare to be Different
deeply ingrained fidelity to certain brands — the kind of loyalty that our parents’ generation felt toward even mundane brands like Tide detergent or Miracle Whip or Sony televisions — is definitely in peril, at least in my opinion. Why...
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- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
sleeves.—Jeff Fagnan Lisa L. Wiersma, Principal, Tribune Ventures, invests around core businesses or newspapers and television stations. Her firm, perhaps not too surprisingly, is particularly interested in ventures that are not driven by...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
watched quietly as the finalists defended earth from pixelated aliens on their television screens. “‘Fweep, fweep, fweep,’ went the lasers. ’Krch, krch, krch,’ went the doomed invaders,” the Associated Press reported from one of the...
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- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
ambitions. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/novartis-leading-a-global-enterprise/an/413096-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-028 Man Jit Singh at Sony Entertainment Television (A) Explores the role of CEO Man Jit Singh...
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 2005 (Revised March 2006)
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Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2005
By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Barbara Mack
In the late 1990s, TiVo pioneered the digital video recorder (DVR), a new consumer electronics category. By 2005, the company was the clear leader in technology and installed base. It had also built extraordinary loyalty among its customers. However, TiVo lost a half...
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Technological Innovation;
Competition;
Partners and Partnerships;
Information Infrastructure;
Television Entertainment;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Products Industry;
Electronics Industry
Yoffie, David B., Pai-Ling Yin, and Barbara Mack. "Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2005." Harvard Business School Case 706-421, October 2005. (Revised March 2006.)
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and filmmakers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories and of helping writers produce better stories by supplying feedback...
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Dina Gerdeman