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  • 04 Apr 2019
  • News

Promoting Diversity at Sundance and Beyond

Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) was in the midst of a successful career in investment management with the $1.7 trillion Capital Group Companies when he cofounded the Blackhouse Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at advancing the careers of promising black filmmakers and... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2019
  • News

Not Waiting for Progress

Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took shape in 2006 after Diamond, then in the midst of a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

The Life of Ted

TURNER AND BURKE: Capturing the boss in print. Courtesy Bill Burke Immediately after graduating from HBS, Bill Burke (MBA ’92) went south, where he helped start Turner Classic Movies and later became president of TBS, the Atlanta superstation. “In 2004, Burke wrote a... View Details
Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Gibson Hits a High Note

33ffea43b3115eba957356db0b41a6e4 It’s a turnaround story almost too good to be true. Gibson Guitar was down, and nearly out, in 1986 when Henry Juszkiewicz (MBA ’79) and David Berryman (MBA ’79) bought the legendary Nashville maker of acoustic and electric guitars.... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?

music that consumers encounter? Those questions were debated at the "Digital Music: Recreating the Industry" panel on March 30 the at the Digital Initiative Summit at Harvard Business School. "It's interesting to think about the source of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Music
  • 10 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The importance of blockbusters has been challenged recently by Chris... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 21 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

Internet music piracy not only doesn't hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. Those were the counterintuitive findings released in March by Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and his co-author Koleman Strumpf, of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Cold Call Podcast

Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation
  • April 1959
  • Case

Acoustic Research, Inc. (B)

By: Bruce R. Scott
Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • April 1993 (Revised June 1998)
  • Case

Time Inc.'s Entry into the Entertainment Industry (A)

Richard Munro, Time Inc.'s chairman and CEO, must respond to a hostile tender offer from Paramount Communications. Paramount conditioned its bid on cancellation of Time's plans to merge with Warner Communications. Several months before the hostile Paramount bid, Time... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Market Entry and Exit; Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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  • September 1992
  • Case

Star Cablevision Group (D): Financial Crisis and Managing Constituencies

By: William A. Sahlman
Fourth case in a series of six cases. This case describes the company as it reaches financial crisis and manages constituencies. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Finance; Management; Crisis Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • January 1992
  • Teaching Note

Play Time Toy Company TN

By: Thomas R. Piper
Teaching Note for (9-292-003). View Details
Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • February 2025
  • Supplement

Align Partners and SM Entertainment: Korean Shareholder Activism Meets K-Pop (B)

By: Charles CY Wang and Billy Chan
For years, institutional investors had experienced very limited success in influencing the management of listed companies through shareholder activist campaigns in Korea. The common practice of circular ownership and public resentment toward foreign shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Public Equity; Stocks; Investment Activism; Music Entertainment; Corporate Governance; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; South Korea
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  • June 1986 (Revised May 1989)
  • Case

Good Time Toy Co.

By: Thomas R. Piper
Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • February 2021 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

World of Dreams Entertainment Group: Building a Resilient Business

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Endline and Michael Norris
In 2021, Ron DeShay, former American Idol producer, is launching his new business venture: World of Dreams Entertainment Group. World of Dreams rethought the existing TV production model, giving audiences more power to directly influence the creation of shows through a... View Details
Keywords: Television Entertainment; Media; Social Issues; Sports; Business Ventures; Digital Platforms; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles
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  • December 1974 (Revised October 1983)
  • Case

Sunshine Toy Co.

By: Thomas R. Piper
Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • October 1998 (Revised May 2004)
  • Teaching Note

Adventurous Computer Games, Inc. and Adventurous Computer Games, Inc.(Abridged)TN

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Teaching Note for (9-199-020) and (9-193-088). View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • February 2017 (Revised January 2022)
  • Supplement

Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment (B)

By: Kristin Mugford
Keywords: Gaming; Chapter 11; Fraudulent Conveyance; Apollo; TPG; Bankruptcy; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Private Equity; Financial Management; Lawsuits and Litigation; Negotiation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Las Vegas
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  • July 2016 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Hamilton: An American Musical

By: Anita Elberse and Jennifer Schoppe
In July 2013, composer, writer, actor and rapper Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Tommy Kail, and producer Jeffrey Seller met to discuss how to launch Hamilton, a new musical based on the life of the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, Alexander Hamilton.... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Creative Industries; Performing Arts; (General) Management; Blockbusters; Non-profit; Theater Entertainment; Strategy; Risk Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Creativity; Product Launch; Product Development; Marketing; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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  • January 2016
  • Teaching Note

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

By: Sunil Gupta and Margaret Rodriguez
In September 2010, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (T2) reported an unexpectedly high third quarter profit of $5.92 million, driven largely by the success of its video game, Red Dead Redemption (which sold over 6.9 million copies since launching in May). Red Dead... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Leadership Style; Marketing; Competitive Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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