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- May 2007 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
Netflix
By: Willy C. Shih, Stephen P. Kaufman and David Spinola
Reed Hastings founded Netflix with a vision to provide a home movie service that would do a better job satisfying customers than the traditional retail rental model. But as it encouraged challenges it underwent several major strategy shifts, ultimately developing a... View Details
- May 2007 (Revised May 2011)
- Teaching Note
Netflix (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching note to (607-138). View Details
- May 2007 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
Maria Sharapova: Marketing a Champion (A)
By: Anita Elberse and Margarita Golod
In July 2004, a then 17-year-old Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon, arguably the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world. Max Eisenbud, Sharapova's agent at International Management Group (IMG), knew the championship would lead to a flood of new opportunities. What... View Details
- April 2007 (Revised April 2011)
- Teaching Note
Slots, Tables, and All that Jazz: Managing Customer Profitability at the MGM Grand Hotel (TN)
By: Dennis Campbell and Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching note to 106029. View Details
- April 2007
- Supplement
Dataset for "Clear Channel Communications, Inc." (CW)
- April 2007
- Teaching Note
iPod vs. Cell Phone: A Mobile Music Revolution? (TN)
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching note to 707419. View Details
- March 2007
- Teaching Note
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (TN)
Teaching note to 707523. View Details
- November 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Background Note
Broadcast Television in the Broadband World
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett
What strategies have the top four (NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) broadcast television networks tested in response to changing media consumption behavior in the broadband world? Discusses the new distribution platforms, including downloads and video streaming. Also, provides... View Details
- November 2006
- Background Note
Technical Game Theory Note #6: Multiple-Round Games and Reputations
By: Dennis A. Yao
Provides a game theory-based interpretation of reputations and reputation building. View Details
- November 2006 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
Chongqing Tiandi
By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas, Joshua A. Katzin, Nadeem Meghji and Cindy Yan
In late 2000, Vincent Lo, a prominent Hong Kong developer was invited by the Deputy Mayor of Chongqing, China to undertake a major redevelopment of the urban core. Lo had previously successfully developed the landmark Xintiandi retail and entertainment district in... View Details
- November 2006 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
eDonkey--Deciding the Future of File Sharing
Sam Yagan, CEO of the upstart MetaMachine, Inc., received a letter from the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) asking him to shut down eDonkey, MetaMachine's popular file-sharing system. In September 2005, more than 30 million users relied on... View Details
- November 2006
- Background Note
Technical Game Theory Note #1: Solving Bi-matrix Games
By: Dennis A. Yao
Explains how to solve bi-matrix games and introduces the Nash Equilibrium concept. View Details
- October 2006 (Revised September 2007)
- Teaching Note
Electronic Arts in Online Gaming (TN)
- October 2006 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Production I.G: Challenging the Status Quo
By: Andrei Hagiu, Tarun Khanna, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Masako Egawa and Chisato Toyama
In July 2006, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa wondered how he could further enhance the success and visibility of his animation production company headquartered in Tokyo, Production I.G. For the year ended May 2006, Production I.G. had sales of 5,439 million yen ($47.3 million),... View Details
- 2006
- Book
3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals
By: David Lax and James K. Sebenius
- September 2006
- Article
Learning in Noisy Games: Partial Reinforcement and the Sustainability of Cooperation
By: Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Alvin E. Roth
- August 2006 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
iPod vs. Cell Phone: A Mobile Music Revolution?
By: David B. Yoffie, Travis D. Merrill and Michael Slind
In 2006, a nascent market for music-enabled mobile phones was emerging to challenge Apple Computer's dominant position in the digital music industry. Through its iPod line of portable digital music devices and its iTunes Music Store, Apple controlled more than half of... View Details
- Aug 2006 - 2006
- Conference Presentation
Entertainment Products in Online and Offline Channels: An Examination of the 'Long Tail'
By: Anita Elberse
- August 2006
- Article
What Negotiators Can Learn from Improv Comedy
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Lakshmi Balachandra
- July 2006
- Background Note
Out of Frame: The Coming Digital Disruption of Hollywood
By: Stephen P. Bradley, Brian DeLacey and Reed Martin
The record opening of the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, starring Johnny Depp, had finally provided the industry with incontrovertible proof that it was still possible to draw massive audiences to movie theaters. Grossing $136 million during its opening... View Details