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June 17, 2016
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Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

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

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08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is negative, suggesting that more reliance on luck is correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

2012, Leonard uses the momentum to bring The Black List online as a database where unproduced screenplays can be reviewed and discovered by industry experts. Now in 2016, Leonard is considering other avenues for supporting great... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

flash sales industry was created using this idea as a cornerstone of its business strategy. In this paper, we identify and investigate a new reason why frequent assortment rotations can be valuable to a retailer, particularly for products... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2004
News

One-on-One with Robert McNamara

kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

October 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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Rhythm & Blues

By: Willy Shih

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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12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

accessible corporate archives in most countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It also permits a level of nuance that is hard to obtain even if written archives are accessible. Oral histories provide insights into why events did not occur as well as why companies... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Oct 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

and college students to share the stories of marginalized communities across campuses. “While at HBS, I look forward to hosting film screenings and collaborating with my peers to ensure that the future of the entertainment View Details

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

factory anywhere in the world is built today without billions of dollars in subsidies. The groundbreaking in Wisconsin that President Trump just attended is receiving around $3 billion from the state. So that industry goes through... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

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Past Issues - Alumni

the film industry as it confronts new economic and technological realities. The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could Nearly thirty years ago, Gary Rogers barely scraped together the $14K he needed to invest... View Details

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

a still-viable business model while simultaneously trying to develop a new platform for growth, it gets pulled in two directions, and both efforts underperform. Kodak, for example, needs to continue to focus on traditional competitors like Fuji View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

01 Mar 2007
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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

02 May 2018
Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

information should be shared inside the organization? 2. Do we have a choice? A recent example suggests that the disclosure debate might well be extended to information that generally has been considered off-limits: compensation data. Recently, View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

industry practice and discuss potential directions for future research. Download the article: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-125.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBlackRock Money Market Management in September 2008 (A) Kenneth A.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

of take comfort in that. But I’m also very excited about the addition of this new technology.” “Book publishing is an $80 billion industry in which half the money is wasted on making and moving around and sometimes destroying physical... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

application to the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such as in education curricula and View Details

15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

or liking both scholarly documentary films and action-packed thrillers. However, when predicting other consumers’ tastes for the same items, people believe that a preference for one precludes enjoyment of the dissimilar other. Five... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine . Nadia's mission is to bring light to cultural shadow through storytelling, challenging the status quo through laughter. She is a frequent guest speaker on panels that focus on diversity in... View Details

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

Business School: We Mean Business.” After class, I drove the bike out of the classroom and down the stairs, which was captured on film by a photographer from the Harbus (check the Harbus archives for the first or second week of January... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

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