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- September 2005 (Revised October 2005)
- Case
Agora SA
By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu, Vincent Dessain and Monika Stachowiak
Tells the story of Agora, the largest media company in Poland, describing its corporate strategy of diversification since its founding in 1989 by entrepreneurial journalists closely linked to the anti-communist movement Solidarity. Describes in detail Gazeta Wyborcza,... View Details
- June 2005
- Teaching Note
The Walt Disney Co.: The Entertainment King (TN)
By: David J. Collis
Teaching Note to (9-701-035). View Details
- May 2005
- Teaching Note
Random House (TN)
By: Bharat N. Anand
Teaching Note to (9-704-438). View Details
- April 2005 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Executive Compensation at General Electric (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Michele Jurgens
Faced with falling share prices and the critical eye of the media focused on Jack Welch's retirement plan, newly appointed CEO Jeff Immelt had the challenge of reassessing GE as a leader of corporate integrity and good governance. Presents the changes Immelt initiated... View Details
- April 2005 (Revised April 2005)
- Background Note
Corporate Strategies in Media and Entertainment Businesses
By: Bharat N. Anand
In recent years, many debates in corporate strategy have centered around information goods markets, and the media and entertainment sector in particular. Vertical integration is the norm in many parts of the media sector, despite conventional wisdom that it offers no... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy
- March 2005 (Revised November 2005)
- Teaching Note
Bertelsmann AG (TN)
By: Bharat N. Anand
Teaching Note to (9-703-405). View Details
Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry
- March 2005
- Teaching Note
Fox Bids for the NFL: 1993 & Fox and the NFL: 1998 (TN)
By: Bharat N. Anand
Teaching Note to (9-704-444) and (9-704-443). View Details
Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry
- March 2005
- Teaching Note
Must Zee TV (TN)
By: Bharat N. Anand
Teaching Note to (9-700-122). View Details
- January 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Lean Forward Media
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
Jeff Norton and Michelle Crames, the co-founders of Lean Forward Media, face several options for producing the world's first interactive DVD film for children. Their vision is to build a company whose products simultaneously entertain children, engage them actively in... View Details
- 2005
- Book
Gifts of Time and Money: The Role of Charity in America's Communities
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Policymakers, civic leaders, and scholars have increasingly focused their attention over the last decade-and-a-half on the importance of voluntary participation in civil society. From George H. W. Bush's Thousand Points of Light to Bill Clinton's AmeriCorps to George... View Details
- December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
- Case
Hasbro Games -- POX (A)
By: David B. Godes and Elie Ofek
Hasbro's newest toy is so unique it requires a unique launch strategy. Comparing traditional media (TV, print) with a non-traditional viral campaign, Matt Collins must weigh the risks and benefits of doing things the way they've always been done or blazing a new path... View Details
- November 2004 (Revised November 2004)
- Supplement
Martha Stewart (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- November 2004 (Revised November 2004)
- Supplement
Martha Stewart (C)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- November 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Messier's Reign at Vivendi Universal
By: Rakesh Khurana, Vincent Dessain and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Focuses on a crisis in the board at Vivendi. Highlights the difficulties that arise when dramatic pressure from outside the boardroom affects boardroom dynamics. In this case, there are two events. The first is an unexpectedly large financial loss and a pending cash... View Details
- October 2004 (Revised March 2005)
- Case
Langer Lab, The: Commercializing Science
By: H. Kent Bowen, Alex Kazaks, Ayr Muir-Harmony and Bryce LaPierre
Professor Robert Langer's laboratory at MIT is the source of an unusually large number of published papers, patents, and technology licenses to start-up and established companies in the biomedical industry. Explores Langer's leadership and other factors that create a... View Details
- September 2004 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
The Passion of the Christ (A)
By: John A. Quelch, Anita Elberse and Anna Harrington
Bob Berney, president of Newmarket Films, must decide on a distribution and marketing strategy for Mel Gibson's controversial new movie, The Passion of the Christ. Fueled by Gibson's star power as well as an extensive prescreening campaign among Christian leaders and... View Details
- 2004
- Chapter
What Do Communication Media Mean for Negotiations? A Question of Social Awareness
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Rachel Croson
- June 2004 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Cox Communications, Inc.
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jonathan Gibbons
Cox Communications, the third largest U.S. cable television system operator, is confronting strategy decisions in mid-2004. Cox managers must decide whether to speed its deployment of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which offers capital and operating costs savings... View Details
- June 2004 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
Scientific-Atlantia (S-A), a leading manufacturer of cable TV equipment, is confronting strategic challenges in mid-2004. For decades, cable operators have faced high switching costs that have locked them into exclusive supply relationships with either S-A or its... View Details
- May 2004 (Revised March 2005)
- Case
Music Downloads
By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
Examines the competition between competing music formats. In the '90s, the MP3 format challenged the traditional means of music distribution by allowing for storage of near CD-quality recordings at 1/10th of their previous size. The threat to traditional distribution... View Details