Entertainment / Media - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jul 2023
News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

Jeremy Yang

Jeremy Yang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Marketing in the MBA required curriculum. He develops data products for... View Details

Keywords: media; media; media; media; media

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Podcast - Business & Environment

meaningful changes and concludes with his advice for those looking to enter the climate space. Joel Makower @ Greenbiz 09 OCT 2024 | Climate Rising This is the fourth episode in our series on business and climate change in the media and... View Details

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

third solution, based not on social media but on entertainment media. Entertainment algorithms loop back and forth from content that’s offered to a response detected until they... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

the process of launching a coaching practice. Keywords: Arts ; Small Business ; Social Media ; Cost vs Benefits ; Decision Choices and Conditions ; Decisions ; Learning ; Music Entertainment ; Values and... View Details

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Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

avictoria@mba2025.hbs.edu Club Email education@studentclubs.hbs.edu Energy & Environment Club Co-Presidents Ian Naccarella inaccarella@mba2025.hbs.edu Lia Turrini lturrini@mba2025.hbs.edu Club Email hbsee@studentclubs.hbs.edu View Details

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

providing retail, housing and entertainment facilities that catered to Colombia’s middle class. While White Stone’s proposal would solve many of Jaguar’s challenges as a start-up real estate development company, the offer would also... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Profile

Annora Wang

was filled with second year students who had made career switches, like I wanted to make, and could speak about their experiences as interns in media entertainment companies. It was very easy to get helpful... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

15 Aug 2023
HBS Case

(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

virtual-reality future yet to materialize as hoped by its biggest proponents. Chief among its backers: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who two years ago went so far as to change his social media company’s name to Meta and vowed to spend... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology

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California - Global

Company San Francisco, 2015 #tech #inequality Sephora Direct: Investing in Social Media Accounting for the iPhone at Apple, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment Keeping Google “Googly” Location California... View Details

02 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 2

http://www.people.hbs.edu/rchua/JIBS_Intercultural_trust.pdf Evolve (Again) Author:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2011) Abstract Frenzy over social networks and interactive media can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Research - Global

Research May 2025 Case Netflix Beyond Streaming: Strategies for the Next Era of Entertainment By: Juan Alcacer and Lorenzo Lucidi Netflix loses subscribers for the first time in over a decade—can the streaming pioneer reinvent itself... View Details

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Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

During Course Activities The purpose of this policy is to clarify the School’s position on capturing (e.g., photography, audio, video, live streaming and other formats) and/or disseminating (e.g., via the media or use of social media)... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(6) Entertainment (21) Entrepreneurship (290) Environmental Accounting (8) Environmental Sustainability (180) Equality and Inequality (44) Equity (25) Ethics (172) Ethnicity (8) Executive Compensation (13) Executive Education (11)... View Details

March 2017 (Revised December 2018)
Case

Reawakening the Magic: Bob Iger and the Walt Disney Company

By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman

Mickey Mouse, Snow White, and Buzz Lightyear strolled down Main Street at the grand opening of Hong Kong Disney in the fall of 2005, pausing to snap selfies with enthusiastic children in Mickey Mouse ears. Bob Iger, newly appointed CEO of The Walt Disney Company,... View Details

Keywords: Franchise Management; Brand Management; Culture Change; Business Units; Acquisition Strategy; Technological Change; Disney; ESPN; Cord-cutting; Bob Iger; Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Integration; Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

tightly linked to changes in firm diversification and IT investments. These relationships depend crucially on the function involved: those closer to the product ("product" functions, e.g., marketing / R&D) behave differently... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Nancy F. Koehn

Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

Keywords: entertainment; entertainment; entertainment; entertainment; entertainment; entertainment; entertainment; entertainment; entertainment; entertainment

28 Apr 2023
Blog Post

From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

your MBA experience From the first day of my MBA, my classmates knew that I loved music and wanted to explore careers in Entertainment and Media. On the professional front, I joined the Entertainment &... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

formation, her time at the BSO, and the process of launching a coaching practice. Keywords: Arts ; Small Business ; Social Media ; Cost vs Benefits ; Decision Choices and Conditions ; Decisions ; Learning ; Music View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

business leader, a facility in talking about complex social issues, and a greater understanding of the merits of reparations. A New Way to Measure Shareholder Returns / End to Magical Thinking Professor Mihir Desai (MBA 1993) + More Info... View Details

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