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- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
Amazon's low costs and reduced shipping rates. In these cases, however, Gupta believes Amazon has and can exploit a distinct advantage. "Amazon offers a lot more benefits, like their streaming music and movie services," Gupta... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
a star. Elite reviewers—a Yelp-awarded certification—have nearly double the impact of other reviewers. In another study looking at movie reviews, Luca found that consumer reviews could correctly predict expert reviews 85 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
fabrics firm in Pennsylvania, but prior to that, he had run a departmentstore chain in Southern California and had friends and contacts in the movie industry. With their help, in 1994 Seder founded the Big Picture Alliance (BPA), an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
dollars to spend in a given year, you're better off making 100 movies that each cost $10 million, or 20 that each cost $50 million. But it turns out that it's much safer to make a handful of really, really big bets. On average, the... View Details
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IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design | Information Technology
Featured Case IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design The multimedia case takes viewers behind the scenes of a human-centered design company, IDEO, as they embrace the shifting demands of their global client base. The case examines IDEO’s work for Cineplanet, the largest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
on the retailer’s shelf, however, is less than $3. Demand for an individual movie is highly uncertain and usually declines rapidly after the first few weeks, Narayanan said. One contracting solution to bridge the divide between studios... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
Sharks have been stigmatized on screen for decades, from the 1975 movie Jaws, in which a gigantic great white shark terrorizes a resort island off the coast of Massachusetts, to the 2013 movie Sharknado, in... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Finding Your Family at HBS
watching a movie amongst friends sharing some wine or whiskey. We’ve laughed together, we’ve cried together, we’ve been the hug or shoulder that you sometimes need to get through a three-case day or midterm. Like gay communities... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring Claire Friedman...
productions including the MTV Movie Awards, an upcoming concert special for Fox, and Dwayne Johnson's Rock the Troops. I'm also serving as the Executive in Charge of our Lip Sync Battle Franchise. How has having an MBA impacted your... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
movie theaters did with the advent of television. Myth #2: There are no barriers to entry on the Internet. What about the huge sums, asked Bezos, that Amazon and other e-commerce companies invest in their businesses? Barriers to entry are... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Hybrid Learning the HBS Way
Teri Volpert Fellow, quickly came to appreciate the School’s efforts. “I feared that remote students would feel like spectators watching a movie of 25 people in a classroom,” he explains. “But having both in-person and remote students be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
for desired specimens in real time. Chicago: Cinekin (Constance Freedman, MBA ’06, chief strategy officer) uses people’s movie preferences to predict the compatibility of couples. London: Qtara (Steve Berry, MBA ’79, chairman) is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
in the contrasts he draws with the medium that still commands the bulk of campaign budgets—which, in the case of the upcoming presidential election, are estimated to swell to a combined $5 billion. Unlike on YouTube, where ads run before the main attraction like a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
To create a multimedia case about IDEO’s creative process, a video crew from HBS’s Educational Technology Services followed a design team through each step of a project with Peru-based movie theater chain Cineplanet. (Photos courtesy of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
before innovations like bunless sandwiches and boneless ribs, Disney began harnessing the power of limited availability by making its movies available for limited periods. The company locks away Dumbo, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and other... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- Profile
Claire Freidman
industries. Plus, I have to admit that I'm looking forward to working on a movie lot. How has HBS prepared you for your current role & your long term career? I was able to take advantage of a lot of great resources at HBS to prepare... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
describe a study in which several participants watched a movie while eating popcorn. Some received fresh popcorn, while others were given week-old, stale popcorn. The researchers found that those participants who always ate popcorn at the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
Facebook will automatically display an advertisement for a substitute nanny who has worked for four close friends and who can step in and pick up my child. Granted, this has the heavy feel of the movie "Minority Report" taken to... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
movie sound tracks from the 1940s and ’50s), gospel music, a duo concert by the She-E-Os and Heard on the Street (HBS’s own student a capella groups), and jazz. Rishi recalls no concert catastrophes more serious than a tenor being delayed... View Details
- Profile
Marc Wilson
Like lots of young people in the U.S., Marc Wilson had dreams of space travel "inspired by comic books and movies like Star Wars." And like many of them, Marc wondered, "Why isn’t that possible?" But unlike most of... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education