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October 2013 (Revised July 2025)
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Rhythm & Blues

The bankruptcy filing of Rhythm & Hues, who received an Oscar for the arresting visual effects in Life of Pi, raised questions about the challenges faced by the firms like it as well as the broader post-production industry. The rapid pace of technology certainly... View Details

Keywords: Post-production; Visual Effects; Digital; Entertainment; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Los Angeles

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06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

individuals. All forecasting is a case in point. When the application becomes personal, it raises many questions that will have to be addressed. In this case, should we be careful what we wish for? What do you think? Original Article In 2002, the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!

by focusing on bigger films that require a bigger commitment." Jeff Robinov believes in blockbusters and his strategy is to create more of them. The pharmaceutical and entertainment industries are similar. R&D costs in both are... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation; Pharmaceutical

07 Feb 2005
What Do You Think?

If You Blink, Will You Miss?

extensive research, observation, and practice. For example, a marriage counselor, by breaking down films of couples talking with each other, carefully categorizing behavior patterns, and doing this for years, has prepared himself (and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Sep 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

percent over the 2002-2007 period. Since 2000, the annual release of new albums has more than doubled, and worldwide feature film production since 2003 is up by more than 30 percent. How markets for complementary goods (such as concerts,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

constrained by its prior thinking about the industry and what its strengths were. It sort of said, "We have a razor/razorblade business model, and the way that we make money is through selling film, so we need to find a way to commercialize digital cameras with a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

At General Motors' Car Assembly Plant in Wilmington, DE, there is a film that managers like to show when times get tough. Dating to 1991, the film opens with a GM executive saying that the plant will be... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

Working PapersThe 'Thin Film of Gold': Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries Authors:Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick Abstract This paper asks whether developing countries can reap credibility gains from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

Breakthroughs faculty draw on a broad range of cases to address decisions faced by senior leaders of science-based organizations. Consider Kodak and the digital revolution. "Kodak saw that film was going to be outmoded, but it wasn't... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

films featuring BMWs. In the summer of 2001, the company recorded 9 million downloads. These 5 aspects show increasing levels of effective engagement in creating social meaning and identity, Deighton suggests, noting that the first 2... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

over global warming appears to have passed a tipping point. We can debate just when it happened. But it was probably sometime before Al Gore's film won the Academy Award. From now on, we can expect to be bombarded with almost daily news... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

smile. ZMET, which is patented, grew out of his interests in anthropology, photography and cognitive neuroscience. It was sparked, in part, by a trip to Nepal and India ten years ago. On his travels, he presented villagers with plastic cameras and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

Rule Them All: Lord of the Rings Online and the MMO Market Hanna Hałaburda, William Collis, Rob McKeon, and Ivan NausiedaHarvard Business School Case 712-434 Turbine Inc. is releasing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, The Lord of the Rings Online, based on the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

major DRAM memory chip makers like Samsung and Hynix in Korea, and Powerchip in Taiwan have already stopped quoting prices until they can assess the impact of the earthquake on their supply chains. Anisotropic conductive film is a key... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

hints of emotion leak out in facial movements—a momentary blush or twitch that might be caught in a couple frames of film but would escape the notice of most untrained observers. Evidence suggests that micro-expressions are there to be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

unconscious thought (UT), more so than after conscious thought (CT). We aimed to test the hypothesis that UT decreases intrusions and increases conceptual organization in memory. Methods. Participants were shown a stressful film and were... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-027.pdf Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study... View Details

December 2014 (Revised April 2018)
Case

Dalian Wanda Group: The AMC Entertainment Acquisition (A)

By: Willy Shih

When Dalian Wanda Group of China announced its plan to acquire the AMC Entertainment theatrical exhibition chain in the United States, many people in the U.S. were mystified. Unlike China where theatrical exhibition was experiencing rapid growth, the U.S. market was... View Details

Keywords: Dalian Wanda Group; AMC Entertainment; Wang Jianlin; Theater Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; China; United States