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- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
There is a moment in the musical Hamilton, right after America wins the Revolutionary War, when British King George III strides on stage and asks cheekily, “What comes next?” This is an urgent question for the United Kingdom as it lurches... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
on, it pays its key cast and crew members the minimum salary stipulated by industry unions and only pays out sizeable bonuses if a movie’s box-office reaches certain levels, it gives its directors a great deal of creative control, and it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
Similarly, the fitness studios I frequented often adjusted the class schedules twice a year—almost like two “semesters.” Likewise, the enrichment activities my kids decided to participate in reset each fall. Even the Broadway plays and View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- January 2012 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
Hip Hop (A): Rapper's Delight, Producer's Dilemma
By: Mukti Khaire and Kerry Herman
Khaire, Mukti, and Kerry Herman. "Hip Hop (A): Rapper's Delight, Producer's Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 812-106, January 2012. (Revised September 2014.)
- 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 Professor Lakshmi Iyer, a native... 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, television networks, book publishers,... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
customer service—to build his business. Covers the first 50 years of American Airlines' history, beginning with its role as an industry consolidator in the late 1920s. Smith's strategic and operational choices in building American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
iPod. As I finished writing Speed Trap, the music industry was celebrating the shutdown of Napster, and the major labels were busy organizing their own download services. A few months later, like a bolt out... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
about the changing nature of careers and changing preferences people have for structuring their personal and professional lives. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409060 The Globalization of East Asian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
for savvy dealmakers. The siren song of real estate never sounded so sweet. Then the music stopped. Dan Dubrowski (HBS MBA '90) remembers it well. "When I came to HBS in 1988, real estate was hot. When I left, it was in a virtual... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608170 Kenny Kahn at Muzak (A) Harvard Business School Case 408-057 Founded in 1934, Muzak pioneered the industry of background music. Equipped with propriety technology and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
advent of the iPod is fascinating [October 24, 2001: "Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player"]. So is the piece on "pocket phones" [September 25, 1991: "Where Silence Was Golden,... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
business model, one that positioned the company simultaneously in the PC industry and the consumer electronics industry. While Apple enjoyed a high market share in digital media players and in online music... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- June 17, 2016
- Comment
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
By: John A. Quelch
Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of business at least temporarily by a terrorist act. Not far away... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Safety; Public Safety; Brand Attraction; Risk Management; Safe Environment Benefit; Marketing Safety; Global Brands; Advertising; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Crime and Corruption; Customers; Music Entertainment; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
Quelch, John A. "Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (June 17, 2016). (Republished by Fortune.com as "What the Orlando Tragedies Can Teach Businesses" on June 20, 2016.)
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
Millennials are disruptive bunch. The first generation to grow up with the internet, consumers born after 1980 are used to relying on technology and engineering to do almost everything—including shopping (Amazon), listening to music... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
far enough. They stopped asking the next round of innovation questions, leaving Apple to reap the benefits from recognizing that the crucial thing wasn't just the device itself, but the magical way in which the entire music View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
brain data to play a key role in future research on consumer choice. (In a recent HBS industry background note on neuromarketing, she discusses the techniques that have helped researchers decode secrets such as why people love... View Details