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22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

29 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers

with beautiful pictures, upbeat music, or dramatic lighting. Finally, emotion-focused ads do this by appealing to consumers' emotional attachment to the brand by personally connecting the product to how it will fit into their lives. (See View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Sports

01 Sep 2011
News

Extraordinary People

each of our awardees, capturing their work and private lives in pictures and extensive interviews.Â We’ve distilled his work for the profiles that follow. For more about each recipient and to watch a video tribute produced by Turnley,... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Jan 2018
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

for our users and, in the process, increase our customer lifetime value (e.g., our successful decision to repurpose our video content into textbooks).” Guram: “I remember that the TOM case on Cincinnati Children’s Hospital was really... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2007
News

Security Chief

a kidnapped Texas couple whose captors went on a shopping spree with the victims’ credit cards. “The kidnappers were filmed on our video equipment in a store, and the police apprehended them,” says Parker. Halfway around the world, U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Jun 2011
News

Mr. Start-Up

Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Cassidy: At Google, a more intense and frenetic experience than launching his own companies. Art by Joe Ciardiello Related Links Watch a video of Mike Cassidy explaining his approach to rapid product... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

using original experimental as well as field data from the city of Boston, Massachusetts, show that revealing the “submerged state”—ensuring that citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs—enhances both perceptions of and engagement with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2024
News

The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the government just isn’t perceived as a cool place to work. Faced with the opportunity to spend your days in brightly colored offices with video game rooms and bountiful cafeterias, why would young talent choose buttoned-up cubicle life... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

School Case 817-117 King Digital Entertainment Riccardo Zacconi was the co-founder and CEO of King Digital Entertainment, the video game company that had quickly established itself as the world’s leading maker of casual games for mobile... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

reporters about how Sony planned to respond to Nintendo's Wii console, which was dramatically leading Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 consoles in sales. The Wii's supremacy was especially disconcerting to Hirai, given that Sony had dominated the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

copyright infringement and forced the startup out of business. Similarly, taxi companies are now actively lobbying local governments to curtail Uber. “The whole issue of cutting the cord is a huge risk for [cable companies]” Other companies use alternative means of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

endanger the existence of moral gray zones. For instance, whereas truck drivers in the past could pick up passengers en route, today a video camera is often used to monitor the driver's seat. In some instances a driver can lose his job if... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

message, but he overcomes that by using an "unscripted fireside chat. It's 'Here's what we are doing well,' with a lot of thank-yous and kudos and pointing out wins and successes, and then talking about how we need to redirect energy into what comes next."... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

July 2022
Teaching Note

Netflix: A Creative Approach to Culture and Agility

By: Ranjay Gulati, Matt Higgins and Allison Ciechanover

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 420-055 and 423-026. View Details

Keywords: Netflix; Corporate Culture; Streaming; Media; Technology; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; California

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July 2022
Supplement

Netflix: A Creative Approach to Culture and Agility (B)

By: Ranjay Gulati and Matt Higgins

This (B) case, set in summer 2022, was designed as a companion to "Netflix: A Creative Approach to Culture and Agility," a case set in 2018. The purpose of this brief document is to unlock a discussion around how the Netflix culture can be used to weather new... View Details

Keywords: Netflix; Corporate Culture; Streaming; Media; Technology; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; California

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12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) and other providers to build their telepsychiatry programs and meet the needs of under-served populations. “Our support allows patients to see providers remotely over video conferences,” he... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

01 Sep 2008
News

Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

vastly overrated. Think about it: How many Web plug-ins do you use to block pop-ups? Don’t you look away, or shift to e-mail, when a news site’s video starts with a 15-second brokerage ad? What did we ever do before we could TiVo past the... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

areas that might benefit from expertise in management." Charles C. ("Chuck") French (MBA '58), vice president of marketing for Global Telemedix and Advanced Video Technologies, commented, "This was the first HBS alumni event I've been to... View Details

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919013-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-054 Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets The case is built around video clips from top business leaders in emerging markets who were interviewed... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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