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Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger, James Barnett and Stacy Straaberg

In May 2022, streaming entertainment company Netflix lost customers for the first time in more than 10 years. Once a first mover in the streaming landscape, Netflix was facing competition from Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, and others. A key component of... View Details

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23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

consequences and likely future implications of their current decisions. Finally, my colleagues at D2D Fund are very excited about financial education initiatives where we are working with commercial video game developers to embed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

2008
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Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis

Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior

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06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

activity in the United States. As Norris puts it, "the largest vendor financing program ever has stimulated both the Chinese and American economies." Is it wise to "level" this playing field? Just what is a level playing field? Does the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

toll COVID was taking, rather than downplaying the number of lives lost, the researchers say. “We were in a huge guessing game over how best to stop the spread,” Rouen says. “If the numbers aren’t accurate, then we can’t accurately... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

response is predominantly awe at the magnitude of what Tate has been able to pull off” It also created the Magic Tate Ball and a dozen other apps and online games to tie-in with exhibitions, available on iTunes and Android stores for free... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

cognitive-behavioral therapy, as well as mindfulness and meditation-based stress reduction. This first group logged in to complete various activities and games at least twice per week that showed them, for example, how to savor the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

leaders need a new game plan. We asked Harvard Business School professors to provide practical advice for managing large-scale, long-term remote work at a time when many employees are not only distracted by the commotion in their homes,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

November 2017
Teaching Note

Amazon.com, 2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-402. On January 28, 2016, Amazon announced record 2015 operating profits of $2.2 billion on $107 billion of sales, and the markets responded with cautious optimism. For years, founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos had prioritized growth and... View Details

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23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

board game Monopoly. This wasn't a blockbuster like the new shaving systems for women, but it showed that everyone has a role to play in a culture of innovation. To go from idea to successful innovation requires a great deal of support... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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18 Feb 2019
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What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

multiplies. Kost: What lessons do you hope executives will take from your book? Teixeira: That the game has changed. In the past, there were a few big companies competing with each other. Coke versus Pepsi. Airbus versus Boeing. GE and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

Even so, says Luo, the list can help newer writers get more of a shot at seeing their movies made, even if not at the same rate as their more experienced peers. “If there was no such list, they might be locked out of the game entirely,”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

solutions to educational gaming to online learning courses for computers in classrooms. This interest and activity should allow us to make great progress in the years ahead. We also recommend investing in technological platforms that will... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

the Internet to their overall store model. Much like the story of the frog in the slowly boiling water, they are finding out late in the game that their physical store businesses are fundamentally unsustainable. Given the item assortments... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

03 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit

It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

availability. But, clearly dysfunctional activities, even in fun, such as a sales vs. marketing golf tournament or softball game at the national sales meeting, are to be discouraged. They only contribute to the schism. The nature of the... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

editor-in-chief of HBS Working Knowledge. Image: adamkaz Related Reading: Why People Don’t Vote—and How a Good Ground Game Helps Research Paper: Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

different scenarios between two competitive, for-profit firms. Can you talk about those findings? A: The method we use is a two-period game where in the first period (the strategy period) business models are chosen, and in the second... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

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Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

Amazon.com, 2016

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

Leadership and Teaming

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

Remembering Alfred Chandler

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

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