Publications

01 Sep 2010
News

had agreed to work at different jobs in my company. But I would not appear as myself, the president and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE), one of America’s premier, privately held theme-park operators. Instead, I would be “John... View Details

Keywords: Joel Manby; reality television; social class; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment

Joshua Yguado

Josh Yguado is the CEO and Cofounder of Jam City, one of the most successful mobile entertainment companies in the world with more than a billion game downloads and 20 million monthly users. Founded in 2010, Jam City is an international... View Details

Keywords: Arts & Culture;#29;#Entertainment;#37;#Gaming

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Club Conferences | MBA

February 15, 2026 South Asian Business Association Entertainment & Media Conference February 22, 2026 Entertainment & Media Club Business of Sports Club Formula One Club AASU H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference... View Details

June 2020
Supplement

Comcast Corporation (B)

By: Sunil Gupta, Henry McGee and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

The (B) case, set in the summer of 2020, highlights the concern of Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, as the streaming war intensifies. In a short period of time several new streaming services, such as Disney+, Apple TV+, Quibi, and HBO Max were launched and cable subscription... View Details

Keywords: Cable Television; Industry Evolution; Television Entertainment; Disruption; Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry

2019
Working Paper

Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

By: Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher and Michael Wahlen

This paper studies a novel, light-touch approach to aggregate judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and... View Details

Keywords: Judgment Aggregation; Creativity; Film Entertainment; Judgments; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

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September 2018
Supplement

AMC Entertainment: Creating a Spectacular Moviegoing Experience (B)

By: Henry McGee and Aldo Sesia

The (B) case describes how AMC reacted to the threat from the subscription service MoviePass and provides AMC’s second quarter fiscal year 2018 results. View Details

Keywords: Exhibitors; Movies; Film Entertainment; Competitive Strategy; Finance; Performance

1998
Working Paper

Organizational Form and Risk Taking in the U.S. Cable Television Industry

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Keywords: Risk Management; Organizational Design; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

November 1983
Article

Subjective Probability and the Theory of Games: Some Further Comment

By: A. E. Roth and F. Schoumaker

Keywords: Theory; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

June 1975
Article

The Information Revealed in Infinitely Repeated Games of Incomplete Information

By: Elon Kohlberg

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Information

September 1974
Article

Repeated Games of Incomplete Information: The Symmetric Case

By: Elon Kohlberg and Shmuel Zamir

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Information

June 2001 (Revised October 2003)
Case

Sampa Video, Inc.

A video rental store is considering offering home delivery service. Management must value the project under different financing strategies and methods, specifically adjusted present value (APV) and weighted average cost of capital (WACC). View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Cost of Capital; Entertainment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

06 Aug 2015
Blog Post

What I Was Not Expecting: Rerouting Towards My Passion at HBS

about. I applied to non-profits, startups, social innovators, arts foundations, theatre producers, music labels, entertainment conglomerates, among others. I am now halfway through my internship in one of the biggest music labels in the... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

30 Aug 2018
News

Sharing a Passion for Art

he notes. Sharing his love of art is a key motivation. While he sometimes arrives at Voorlinden before opening to enjoy a few moments alone in the quiet galleries, van Caldenborgh says an even better perk of his job is the chance to act as a tour guide. “It’s fun to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Arts, Entertainment

April 2016
Teaching Note

Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

This Note was created for the purpose of aiding classroom instructors in the use of the Harvard Business School case, "Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016." As chairman and CEO, David Kenny guided the Weather Company's transformation from a cable television... View Details

Keywords: Weather Company; IBM; Digital; Technology; David Kenny; Television; Weather Channel; Legacy Business; Mainstream; Newstream; Reorganization; Acquisitions; Transformation; Information Technology; Television Entertainment; Acquisition; Consolidation; Change; Leadership

March 2016 (Revised May 2016)
Case

UFO Moviez—Gentle Disruption

By: Hong Luo, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Saloni Chaturvedi

UFO Moviez is an Indian technology services provider that enables low-cost, digital delivery of films to cinemas. UFO’s satellite-based technology enables a significantly wider release of films compared to traditional analog prints and standard, higher-resolution... View Details

Keywords: Film Entertainment; Information Technology; Distribution; Disruption; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India

January 2016 (Revised March 2016)
Case

Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

CEO David Kenny led the transformation of the Weather Company from a television business to a Big Data technology company from 2012 until 2016, when IBM acquired its digital assets. This case discusses major decisions taken by Kenny starting in 2014 as he sought to... View Details

Keywords: Weather Company; IBM; Digital; Technology; David Kenny; Television; Weather Channel; Legacy Business; Mainstream; Newstream; Reorganization; Acquisitions; Transformation; Information Technology; Television Entertainment; Acquisition; Consolidation; Change; Leadership

January 2009 (Revised March 2009)
Case

A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com

By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Manty

Now into their third year at the helm of an Internet start-up in China, Ken Pao and Bill Li were managing a totally different company (with a new name) from the one they first founded in 2006. Having changed their business model from a social networking site to an... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; China

October 29, 2010
Article

The Mental Game of Breast Cancer, Part one

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling