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25 Oct 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

on the board of directors for Women’s Voices Now, an organization that empowers women and youth from under-resourced communities to drive social change through film. With the organization’s films reaching more than 190 countries, Snehal... View Details

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-027.pdf Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study... View Details

11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

unconscious thought (UT), more so than after conscious thought (CT). We aimed to test the hypothesis that UT decreases intrusions and increases conceptual organization in memory. Methods. Participants were shown a stressful film and were... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

hints of emotion leak out in facial movements—a momentary blush or twitch that might be caught in a couple frames of film but would escape the notice of most untrained observers. Evidence suggests that micro-expressions are there to be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

07 Nov 2014
News

The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)

commenting, we are propagating the democratization of media.” What is Harry Potter really like? [Pham met actor Daniel Radcliffe when he presented her with the Cadillac 2014 Innovator Award for her trailblazing contributions to the film... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2015
News

Ink

Fuji Photo Film combined interests to steal low-end printer share from Canon, both companies wanted to have a markup over their own separate costs, which would have created an overpriced product. The eventual answer was a carefully... View Details

13 Mar 2019
Blog Post

There's No Quick Shortcut to Success: Zorpads Takes Off

recommended a spot on the show to take their one-time class project to the national stage. The same way HBS served as a setting for their venture's launch, they filmed their video application for Shark Tank while on campus for their... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

of its films in-house, and to market them fan-by-fan. Owner Thomas Tull acquires the big-data-in-sports firm started by Matt Marolda and appoints him to run marketing analytics for Legendary. The methods perform well in the motion picture... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

from a job—or several jobs. They then introduced the best candidates to Dave Habeeb and Ruth Page, of HBS's Educational Technology Services, who went on location to film interviews with the laid-off employees and their families. The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2012
News

Straight to the Heart

emphasizes the power of fate and serendipity in finding love. How do you respond to those who find your proactive approach too contrived? If there’s one pet peeve I have after 10 years in the love business, it’s people’s complete faith in fate. Hollywood View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; marriage; social media; matchmaking; Personal Services

09 Mar 2023
News

Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Association of Boston Commemorates Centennial In 2023, the HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) is commemorating its Centennial Year with activities and events aimed at celebrating a century of alumni accomplishments, exploring the trends shaping... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

Rule Them All: Lord of the Rings Online and the MMO Market Hanna Hałaburda, William Collis, Rob McKeon, and Ivan NausiedaHarvard Business School Case 712-434 Turbine Inc. is releasing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, The Lord of the Rings Online, based on the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off

recommended a spot on the show to take their one-time class project to the national stage. The same way HBS served as a setting for their venture's launch, they filmed their video application for Shark Tank while on campus for their... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Downtime

Turkish novelist.Â The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, because I loved the documentary film Food, Inc. and would like to learn more about where our food comes from. Better by Atul Gawande, because it’s about improvement in an... View Details

Keywords: fiction; Christianity

December 2014 (Revised April 2018)
Case

Dalian Wanda Group: The AMC Entertainment Acquisition (A)

By: Willy Shih

When Dalian Wanda Group of China announced its plan to acquire the AMC Entertainment 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... View Details

Keywords: Dalian Wanda Group; AMC Entertainment; Wang Jianlin; Theater Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; China; United States

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10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

involvement of star actors critical to the success of motion pictures? Film studios, which they regularly pay multimillion-dollar fees to star actors, seem driven by that belief. I shed light on the returns on this investment using an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four months.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

films featuring BMWs. In the summer of 2001, the company recorded 9 million downloads. These 5 aspects show increasing levels of effective engagement in creating social meaning and identity, Deighton suggests, noting that the first 2... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

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Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Course . Film directed by Richard Bagley, produced by Bill Buckley, presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, Radcliffe College, 1958. 31 Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Catalogue,... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

The Protagonist Goes Prime Time

filming on location in Lima, Peru. In the School’s Educational Technology Services group, a team of four works with the faculty to create approximately six multimedia cases a year, including the recent “Eataly: Reimagining the Grocery... View Details

Keywords: April White

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