Publications

September 2007 (Revised September 2007)
Teaching Note

RealNetworks Rhapsody (TN)

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Keywords: Media; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

August 2007 (Revised February 2013)
Teaching Note

Oprah Winfrey (TN)

By: Nancy F. Koehn, Marya Besharov, Katherine Miller and Nora Khan

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

October 2005 (Revised June 2006)
Case

The Turnaround of Chris-Craft

By: William A. Sahlman, Geremy Connor, Brian Doherty, Andrew Murphy and Taylor Smith

Describes a set of issues confronting the owners of Chris-Craft, a manufacturer of high-end boats. The company can invest in new monobrand stores, new boat designs, and brand extensions (e.g., apparel). The owners have also recently purchased Indian Head Motorcycle out... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Luxury; Brands and Branding; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

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20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

research firm Civic Science, which conducts surveys placed on news and entertainment websites. The research survey began on April 2, 2015, the day Indiana’s governor signed the revised version of the RFRA. Some 3,400 respondents were... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and entertainment industry... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

Professor Mukti Khaire's challenge to management students is lofty, even by Harvard MBA standards. Don't just change the way people live, change the way they think. Change culture. In her new elective course, Creative High-Impact Ventures: Entrepreneurs Who Changed the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation

January 2014 (Revised February 2015)
Case

YouTube for Brands

By: Thales Teixeira and Leora Kornfeld

This case examines the changes employed by YouTube to make the massively popular site more attractive to brands. Building from its base of amateur, user-generated content, YouTube had turned to experimenting with professionally-made content and organizing its videos... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Internet and the Web; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Marketing; Brands and Branding; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

steadily. “Like so many entrepreneurs, Dal LaMagna pursued his new idea with a vengeance, but insisted on doing it all himself.” Dal LaMagna's early personal and professional life—recently chronicled in his entertaining autobiography,... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

to the first download to the first purchase and beyond. Not only has ScriptLogic been able to invest in marketing actions that deliver the best results, they have been able to use their data to strike better deals with advertisers. Q: Your work mentions Harrah's View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

October 2014
Case

MCA Matsushita (A)

By: Andrew Wasynczuk and Karen Huang

Keywords: Music Corporation Of America; Matsushita Electric Industra; Negotiation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Japan

November 2017 (Revised July 2019)
Case

Project Moab at Hulu

By: C. Fritz Foley and James Weber

In 2015, Elaine Paul, CFO of Hulu, and the rest of the senior leadership team, must decide if they should offer a new, advertisement-free subscription service. At the time Hulu distributed a wide variety of content including in season current programing and earned... View Details

Keywords: Video On Demand; Subscriber Models; Media; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

June 2016 (Revised May 2017)
Case

Searching for a New CEO: TiVo 2016

By: David B. Yoffie

In 2015, TiVo initiated a search for a new CEO. This case provides a profile of the CEO search and background on the company. View Details

Keywords: Technological Change; Succession Planning; Information Technology; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Management Succession; Forecasting and Prediction; Change; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

Germany in 1790 to count in the business cycle."2 Even as he wrote the book, he pursued many other activities. As the undisputed star of the Economics Department, he entertained a stream of visiting scholars, led several faculty... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

June 2018
Supplement

Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (B)

By: Marco Di Maggio and Benjamin C. Esty

Analyzes Snap’s value and analyst recommendations following the events described in the (A) case. View Details

June 2018 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A)

By: Marco Di Maggio, Benjamin C. Esty and Gregory Saldutte

Snap, the disappearing message app, went public at $17 per share on March 2, 2017, making its two 20-something founders the youngest self-made billionaires in the country. Over the next three weeks, 14 analysts made investment recommendations on Snap: two with buy... View Details

September 2017
Supplement

Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (B)

By: Victoria Ivashina and Eren Kuzucu

In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu (HBS MBA 1994) led private equity firm Actera Group’s investment in Mars Cinema Group (Mars), the leading movie exhibitor in Turkey. Immediately after acquiring Mars and merging it with the second larger player in the market, AFM,... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Value Creation; Transformation; Valuation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Turkey