Media and Broadcasting Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Dec 2010
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PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and... View Details

02 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

more relevant and effective in three areas: training and education aligned with industry needs, commitments to hire community college students, View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they agree that the pace and... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

organizations' behaviors in a given industry or sector, to efforts to change behaviors throughout a country, region, or even the world. Addressing the issue of power and influence in society in an MBA... View Details

19 Apr 2010
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The History of Beauty

Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry is the first serious attempt to trace the history of the $330 billion global beauty industry and its large collection... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

08 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

little performance variability—because the tasks are standard, because the firm or industry has reduced variability, or because the business model limits the bandwidth of performance variance. Think about the difference between sales... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Joy Chen

which I could learn from the best and potentially have more independent agency as a young person.” Exploring opportunities, seeking inspiration Joy’s business career took her from nonprofits to financial services (Fidelity Investments),... View Details

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

I think about releasing ads in advance is you begin to engage consumers earlier, and then when you wrap that around a social media strategy you can begin to drive conversation about your brand before,... View Details

Keywords: Media & Broadcasting; Media & Broadcasting; Media & Broadcasting; Media & Broadcasting

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Industries (8) Goals and Objectives (18) Going Public (36) Goods and Commodities (7) Governance Compliance (4) Governance Controls (76) Governance (268) Governing Rules,... View Details

January 2024 (Revised August 2024)
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Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours

By: Jung Koo Kang, Krishna G. Palepu, Charles C.Y. Wang and David Lane

This case examines factors contributing to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March 2023, an event as unpredicted as it was quick. SVB funded nearly half of all U.S. venture-backed startups and at the end of 2022 held $173 billion in deposits, largely... View Details

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27 Feb 2006
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When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

Rights of first refusal are contract clauses common in such industries as entertainment. In 2001, Paramount Studios and the National Broadcasting Company negotiated the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Oct 1997
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J. Hughes Norton III

majestic Mediterranean-style clubhouse. On a nearby practice green, a solitary figure, virtually unnoticed, rolls 40-foot putts up to the pin as the fans and media stream by. It's last year's Open winner,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

before it went public. He then led Open Market's expansion into business-to-business applications. In 1999, he founded and ran PurchasingCenter.com, a "My Yahoo" portal for industrial purchasing agents who... View Details

27 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

For the most part, social media is what you make it. You choose whom to keep tabs on, who can follow you back, what you “like,” and which snippets of your life you reveal. But what if those carefully curated... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

In the spring of 2005, media outlets from Gizmodo to Good Morning America were buzzing about Clocky, an alarm clock that jumped off the nightstand and rolled away chirping and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

May 2001 (Revised June 2002)
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Frasier (A)

By: Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka

In 2001, NBC entered into contract negotiations with Paramount Television Group to keep the hit show "Frasier" on the network. Paramount, the studio that produced the show, threatened to move "Frasier" to CBS, Paramount's sister network, if NBC did not agree to a... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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Joseph O'Donnell | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

stayed on at HBS in senior administrative roles, but when his son was born with cystic fibrosis, he realized he would have to earn a lot more money just to cover the bills. He decided to strike out on his own and start a business. After... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

Businesses This SIP is designed for students who are focused on the rapidly changing world of sports media and sports technology. It will be focused on topics of interest to students who are considering... View Details

July 2020 (Revised April 2022)
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Paris Saint-Germain: Building One of the World's Top Sports Brands

By: Anita Elberse and David Moreno Vicente

In March 2020, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the president of French soccer club Paris Saint-Germain (‘PSG’) sees his team clinch a spot among the last eight clubs to compete in the UEFA Champions League. Established in 1970 and initially a club with only moderate success, PSG’s... View Details