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  • March 2014
  • Teaching Note

The Weather Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Strategic Change; Technology; Digital; Weather; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Change Management; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Industry; Service Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • September 2019 (Revised October 2019)
  • Case

Burunda Prince at The Farm, a Comcast NBCUniversal Innovation Hub (Powered by Boomtown)

By: Linda A. Hill, Eric Mankin and Emily Tedards
After a successful inaugural year, Burunda Prince, the Managing Director of Comcast’s startup business accelerator The Farm, was getting ready for an eventful 2019. Comcast was America's largest cable and internet service provider, having built a profitable business... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Accelerator; Entrepreneur; Startup; Outsourcing; Hiring; Talent; Culture; Ecosystem; Digital; Women; African Americans; Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Management; Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Media; Entertainment; Transformation; Atlanta
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  • March 2001 (Revised August 2001)
  • Case

Time Warner Inc. vs. The Walt Disney Company (A): Pulling the Plug

Describes negotiation impasse between Time Warner, Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. over the retransmission of the ABC Network over Time Warner's cable systems. More broadly, the case depicts the shifting balance of power between content creators and distributors in the... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Internet and the Web; Television Entertainment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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  • October 1981 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

Quabbin Cablevision Company

By: Henry B. Reiling
Several entrepreneurs are considering the purchase of an existing cable TV business with the financial assistance of several investors. They must decide whether to establish the company as a partnership or a corporation, and how to capitalize the company for an optimal... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Organization; Television Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Capital Structure; Taxation; Telecommunications Industry; Massachusetts
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  • October 2003 (Revised February 2004)
  • Case

Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2003 (A)

By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Christina L. Darwall
Mike Ramsey, TiVo's CEO, must decide on which direction to build the company. Facing an onslaught of new competitors, a huge opportunity in the cable industry, and the possibility of becoming the new "user interface" for TV entertainment, Ramsey must balance the... View Details
Keywords: Television Entertainment; Profit; Product Positioning; Standards; Opportunities; Commercialization; Competition; Technology Adoption; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    Anita Elberse

    Anita Elberse is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Elberse develops and teaches an MBA course covering the "Businesses of Entertainment, Media, and Sports," which ranks among the most sought-after... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; arts; broadcasting; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; electronics; entertainment; fashion; home video games; information; marketing industry; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; sports; telecommunications; video games
    • 25 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 25

    Economics & Management Strategy Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior By: Prince, Jeffrey, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—The television industry is undergoing a generational shift in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2005 (Revised March 2006)
    • Case

    Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2005

    By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Barbara Mack
    In the late 1990s, TiVo pioneered the digital video recorder (DVR), a new consumer electronics category. By 2005, the company was the clear leader in technology and installed base. It had also built extraordinary loyalty among its customers. However, TiVo lost a half... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Partners and Partnerships; Information Infrastructure; Television Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry
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      Bharat N. Anand

      Bharat N. Anand is the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University, and the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

      Professor Anand is an expert in digital strategy, media and... View Details

      Keywords: television; television; television; television; television; television; television; television; television
      • 02 Jan 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

      on-demand programming. Priced at $39.99 per month, Hulu Live TV offered consumers a tremendous savings over traditional cable program packages and allowed subscribers to watch programs on Internet-connected View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 04 Nov 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: November 4

      licensing offer from Netflix for their most ambitious project to date, a new television series called House of Cards. MRC executives had begun to pitch the series to the major premium cable networks in the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 05 Sep 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

      launched the new FOX Sports 1 cable television network and was working to sign sports properties. Atlas considered Street League’s relationship with ESPN, the league’s finances, and attempts to raise... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      Batten Hall | About

      Batten Hall Frank Batten (MBA 1952) Batten Hall is named in honor of media pioneer and entrepreneur Frank Batten (MBA 1952). Batten Hall became part of the HBS campus in 2011. The building was once home to public broadcasting’s WGBH View Details
      • 06 Jul 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

      effort. The most obvious examples of managing churn are cell phone and cable companies, in which the customer relationship is contractual, and customers have to actively call to cancel service. But the lessons can be applied to many types... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services
      • 19 Mar 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

      doctoral studies. Brand managers entered the social media landscape with the same approach they used for television and radio advertising, she says. "With both of those media, we have an understood contract with consumers: In order... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
      • 04 Feb 2014
      • What Do You Think?

      Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

      think? Original Article The week that I write this, I needed help programming a television set for recording purposes. Before being connected with the cable company service representative, I agreed to... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 01 Aug 1998
      • News

      High Honors

      a series of significant acquisitions, purchasing a small cable television station. During the next few decades, Landmark's TeleCable division bought dozens of cable stations... View Details
      • Web

      Harvard Business School

      engaged in the broadcasting and cable television industries. From 1970-1975, Ryan was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Ryan is currently on the board of directors of General Mills and Stanley... View Details

        John C. Malone

        formed joint partnerships to build a combined cable telephone system in Britain. Under Malone’s leadership, TCI became the #2 cable television operation in the United States... View Details
        Keywords: Communications

          Frank Batten

          a few years, it soon became a hallmark of cable television and grew in size and market reach as cable technology expanded nationally and internationally. View Details
          Keywords: Publishing & Print Media