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- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
success? A: To answer that, I shall use the words of a founder I interviewed: "Clients want to work with New York agencies, just like you would want to make a movie in Hollywood, not in Toledo." Thus, some locations have... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Erasing Racism Louis (Lou) Gossett Jr.’s exemplary life included a groundbreaking career in entertainment and a bold and audacious goal to erase racism. From the Broadway stage to television and the movie screen, Gossett earned major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Business School Case 610-036 Examines the process used by a major motion picture studio to develop and select movie projects. Warner Bros.' strategy is to focus its efforts on a small number of major "event" films (i.e., films... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
order when should DVDs are rented before want DVDs. Specifically, a 1.3% increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline rate of 12%) ensues if the first of two sequentially rented movies has more should and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“The fire is at this end. Why flood the room?” That’s what Sony Pictures did. When hackers broke into the movie studio’s network in 2014—inflicting a reported $35 million in IT damages—administrators at Sony just shut the whole network... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
theatrical exhibition chain in the United States, many people in the U.S. were mystified. Unlike China where theatrical exhibition was experiencing rapid growth, the U.S. market was viewed as mature, and rapidly changing technology was giving consumers a widening range... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
the family’s flagship Glencoe Mills. Green’s genial manner and deep southern roots invited frequent comparisons to the character of Ashley Wilkes from the acclaimed 1930s book and movie Gone with the Wind. But Wilkes was a stereotypical,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
around the different extrinsic and intrinsic motivations underlying each of these party's approach to the movie and, therefore, to the negotiation. The exercise allows exploration of the risks of "monetizing" different types of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
doubt eased the fundraising that followed. Almost a dozen major movie studios participated in the initial round of funding in the summer of 2018, including Disney, Entertainment One, Fox, ITV, Lionsgate, MGM, NBCUniversal, Sony, Viacom,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
had to pay, even in transition housing, he had to pay rent. He had lots of ways he could've used that $500. And yet, what he did was he went out and he gathered up his old buddies, from under the viaduct, and he took them out to a movie... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
competitive strategy? Renowned for the cutting-edge websites that it developed to market major Hollywood movies and leading consumer brands, the firm had won numerous awards and garnered considerable attention within the advertising... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
capital flowing into space. Course materials included Weinzierl’s cases on SpaceX and Blue Origin, with guest speakers from those companies and other industry leaders and investors, as well as recommended movies such as Gravity, The... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
first-of-its-kind, three-year agreement with Hollywood studio Warner Bros. Entertainment that gave SpringHill Entertainment a first-look movie deal, an exclusive television deal, significant development resources that also could be used... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
live concerts and merchandising (for music) and product placements (for movies and network shows), will become essential for the financial health of media companies. This will involve setting up "creative" contracts with artists... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
is the theme of every Disney movie I watched as a kid. Why is it so hard for us to forgo that chase? Your dreams are liars. Here’s the problem: Your genetic proclivities are not biasing you toward happiness. They’ve biased you toward... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
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 business model and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
Representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza Drive-In Nation Judgment Day for the U.S. Auto Industry? The Producers What’s it like to make movies in Hollywood outside the big-budget studios? A handful of independent... View Details