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June 2022 (Revised March 2024)
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Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger, James Barnett and Stacy Straaberg

In May 2022, streaming entertainment company Netflix lost customers for the first time in more than 10 years. Once a first mover in the streaming landscape, Netflix was facing competition from Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, and others. A key component of... View Details

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31 May 2017
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Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

changed the so called cycle, and new games and new rules have overtaken this model? Not sure we can describe this (as a) new wheel of retailing; rather the new wheels of ecosystems.” Edwin Lambregts added, “In Europe the retail View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

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By: Andy Wu

How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

game who got hit with their own boomerang. As a result, many of these leaders have departed the scene, just as numerous corporate CEOs did in the wake of the Enron debacle earlier in the decade. Some of these leaders failed to follow... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

Wasserman Taking the Game to a New Level: Zeynep Ton Finding Reason in the Irrational: Ulrike Malmendier Star Search: Boris Groysberg On the Case: First-Year Professors Develop a Taste for Teaching The Big Aha When Noam Wasserman enrolled... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

contrasts the tradition-bound Old World wine industry with the market-oriented New World producers in the battle for the Chinese wine market in 2015. China’s wine consumption growth presented a large and fast-growing export target that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

and with a family to support, “living in a dump over a hardware store with kerosene heat,” one biographer wrote. But the Army learned that MacDonald had done well in Industrial Procurement at HBS and offered him a job. He enlisted in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

the dorm lounges with a balloon arch, tablecloths over the pool table, flowers, and a sumptuous brunch spread. We played games and there was a huge turnout from our section – both girls and guys. Dominique Lacassie | Class of 2021... View Details

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

Financial performance is the result of operating performance. Operating performance includes all the things that a company must do to win the competitive battle in its industry to attract, retain, and profitably serve customers. It varies... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

12 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 12

seek and how firms could deliver it. The result can be new revenue, increased customer satisfaction and loyalty, positive word of mouth, and cost savings. The multiyear process to price the 8 million tickets to the upcoming London 2012 Olympic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Harvard Business School

programming, film acquisition, and international co-production. Named president of HBO Home Entertainment in 1995, McGee received numerous industry awards and oversaw the digital and DVD release of many blockbusters, including The... View Details

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

now, and how will they use their power? Will we see bigger bets on likely blockbusters, more intense competition in areas such as streaming and esports, and more industry consolidation? Drawing on dozens of recent case studies, Professor... View Details

March 2009
Teaching Note

Responding to the Wii? (TN)

By: Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Halaburda

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Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Competition; Industry Structures; Age; Video Game Industry

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01 Jun 2014
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Net Gains

the league, which includes everything from marketing communications to information technology to pure international business. It's this last responsibility that has Tatum really animated. "When you look at the opportunity we have to grow our business and our View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Gaming: statistics

mobile games. Search LSEG Workspace for analyst reports on specific companies and the gaming industry more broadly. Industry and market research reports available in... View Details

2010
Working Paper

Competing Complements

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Barry Nalebuff and David B. Yoffie

In Cournot's model of complements, the producers of A and B are both monopolists. This paper extends Cournot's model to allow for competition between complements on one side of the market. Consider two complements, A and B, where the A + B bundle is valuable only when... View Details

Keywords: Profit; Revenue; Monopoly; Game Theory; Competition

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10 Jul 2024
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Next Level

Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace

01 Mar 2004
News

Toy Story

has developed games for fifteen international markets and has sold some six million units in the United States alone. A rule of thumb in the toy industry is that about half of all new board View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

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Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

Overview

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

It's academic. (Not!)

Remembering Alfred Chandler

November 8, 2016

One Man Crime Wave

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

First Look: June 12

Harvard Business School

Leadership and Teaming

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Responding to the Wii? (TN)

Net Gains

Gaming: statistics

Competing Complements

Next Level

Toy Story