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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

leisure class passengers could adjust the amount of light coming in by rotating the inner window pane. Strong sales particularly in sunglass lenses and camera filters enabled the nascent corporation to fund further research and development in other areas including 3-D... View Details

June 2022 (Revised March 2024)
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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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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

achievement in the motion picture and television industries. This classification is obtained by demonstrating to the USCIS that the individual has sustained national or international acclaim. As this... View Details

September 2017
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Tencent

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking service provider with several of the... View Details

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November 2017
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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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Goldwyn is recognized worldwide as one of the most significant single individuals in the history of the motion picture industry. Goldwyn became Hollywood's pre-eminent independent filmmaker producing a body... View Details

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Greta Garbo and Rouben Mamoulian on the set of Queen Christina - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 next Greta Garbo and Rouben Mamoulian on the set of Queen Christina ca. 1934 Motion Picture Producers and... View Details

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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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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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology

its instamatic 100 camera and, in 1965, released its Super 8 camera, a motion picture camera used to record home movies on 8mm film. Previous On 1963, Kodak unveiled its instamatic 100 camera and, in 1965,... View Details

Louis B. Mayer

Mayer, known as the unchallenged “czar of Hollywood” for over a quarter of century, created one of the largest motion pictures companies in the world. After acquiring control over the largest chain of... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

17 Aug 2011
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Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

In 2007, Sony Pictures became the first multinational studio to enter the India film business known as Bollywood with its $7 million film Saawariya. The movie grossed only $9 million. That same year, Walt Disney View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

George Eastman

Eastman invented film and the inexpensive camera, and in turn created the multi-billion dollar photography industry. Eastman acquired all the photographic paper producers in America and secured the motion View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

15 Sep 2016
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Movies That Move People

have a picture that captures an audience most completely. And that’s what we strive to do. ”I’m very aware that the motion picture industry is pervasive and the films we make... View Details

Nicholas M. Schenck

When Marcus Loew died in 1927, Schenck assumed control over all of his holdings, including Loew’s theatre company and its production arm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Despite the onslaught of the Depression, though, Schenck’s attention to efficiency and to “the bottom... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

01 Dec 2001
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Film School

fabrics firm in Pennsylvania, but prior to that, he had run a departmentstore chain in Southern California and had friends and contacts in the movie industry. With their help, in 1994 Seder founded the Big Picture Alliance (BPA), an... View Details

Keywords: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

18 Sep 2012
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Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry

Keywords: by Venkat Kuppuswamy & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Motion Pictures & Video

12 Dec 2016
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Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

digital channel,” said Elberse. “It will be interesting to analyze how that move fits into the broader picture of how his brand and company are evolving.” Elberse is impressed with the business acumen and ambition demonstrated by the pair... View Details

Keywords: Re: Anita Elberse; Motion Pictures & Video; Motion Pictures & Video

01 Jun 2004
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Roll the Credits

After a 38-year run as Hollywood’s leading man in Washington, Jack Valenti (MBA ’3/48) announced in March that he will step down as president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).... View Details

27 Feb 2019
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Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

Keywords: by Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher, and Michael Wahlen; Motion Pictures & Video

21 Sep 2016
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Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

For decades, Shabana Azmi has been a leading actress in Indian cinema. She has starred in many of that country’s most popular and acclaimed films, including the groundbreaking Fire in 1996, about a lesbian relationship between two sisters-in-law. At age 66, Azmi’s... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

Tencent

Amazon.com, 2016

Samuel Goldwyn

Greta Garbo and Rouben Mamoulian on the set of Queen Christina - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Leadership and Teaming

The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology

Louis B. Mayer

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

George Eastman

Movies That Move People

Nicholas M. Schenck

Film School

Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry

Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

Roll the Credits

Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good