Film Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release” Harvard Business School Associate... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

William Fox

Fox pioneered the vertical integration of the film industry by merging production, distribution, and exhibition under single ownership. Fox, along with Adolph Zukor, of Paramount Pictures, is largely... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

distinguishing characteristics of the film industry are the visibility of its product and steep marketing costs during the product’s short life span, says Teddy Zee. “In the past, a movie premiered on 1,000... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

01 Dec 2015
News

How Do I Get Your Job?

choosing this industry as opposed to another. The film business is a little tricky for MBAs to navigate. It doesn’t have the same clear path that other, more traditional fields do. Leaving that aside, the... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters

Production internship program that provides women and minorities with hands-on training in film production, while also offering a support network of industry contacts. This year, opportunities for students... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Information

01 Dec 2004
News

Getting Personal

marketing and psychology. Moon is a recipient of the HBS Student Association Award for teaching excellence and has twice received a Hellman Faculty Fellowship, presented annually to a junior faculty member for outstanding research. Are there View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Fast Answer

IFC: LA/Hollywood

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Best for a broad industry overviews. Covers industry... View Details

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

marketing and psychology. Moon is a recipient of the HBS Student Association Award for teaching excellence and has twice received a Hellman Faculty Fellowship, presented annually to a junior faculty member for outstanding research. Gary Emmons: Are there View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

Fast Answer

Movies: statistics

Where can I find statistics about movies and movie theaters? S&P Capital IQ Pro: Select Industries - Technology, Media &... View Details

06 Jul 2015
News

Lights! Camera... Market!

In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm that employs much of the town,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

01 Apr 1998
News

Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

photography business, DiCamillo observes, is on the threshold of change. "This industry is moving to digital," he explains. "Its evolution is being affected by the Internet, personal computers and peripherals, and the information... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

19 Feb 2008
News

The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen

Clayton up this weekend for seven Academy Awards. (Any predictions out there on the winners?) Samuels drew an analogy between the real estate industry and filmmaking. “I look at a movie script the same way I look at an empty piece of... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Real Estate

November 1993
Case

Edgar J. Scherick Associates

Edgar Scherick, a leading television movie producer, must determine whether fact-based movies garner higher Nielsen ratings than fictional movies. Scherick has data for all 1992 TV movies broadcast on major networks. Ultimately, Scherick must decide whether it is... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Film Entertainment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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08 May 2012
News

Screen Saver

Apkon: With Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg, celebrating the Jacob Burns Film Center's 10th anniversary. Stephen Apkon’s first movie memory is a little hazy. He’s pretty sure it was Mary Poppins, showing as the first half of a drive-in... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

March 2009 (Revised January 2010)
Case

DreamWorks SKG Inc.: To Distribute or Not to Distribute?

By: Juan Alcacer, David J. Collis and Mary Furey

Keywords: Film Entertainment; Distribution; Strategy; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

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Collection Highlights | Baker Library

related to many wartime schools held on campus. Industrial Film Collection A range of industrial films including time-motion studies and... View Details

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From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion... View Details

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Multimedia Development | Information Technology

today’s standards but ground-breaking for its time—10 years before YouTube would make streaming video ubiquitous. Featured Case of the Month The Reinvention of Kodak The Kodak multimedia case highlights the company's reinvention efforts by its leadership to navigate... View Details

04 Sep 2013
News

From HBO to HBS

disc and digital technologies hadn't even been invented when I joined the company." With that experience under his belt, McGee will embark on an entirely new adventure when he joins the HBS faculty in fall 2013 as a senior lecturer. "In a way, my work for HBO and in... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; HBSO; HBS; faculty; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

HBS's Educational Technology Group. “The idea that you might offshore the reading of radiology films would have been unthinkable 25 years ago.” Each team assessed the potential offshorability of 20 occupations. (The positions of financial... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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