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- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
places,” Yeomans says. Briefly explaining where the recommendations come from might also foster greater trust in them. Netflix and Amazon do this by telling users that because they chose a certain movie or product, they might be... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and author of the forthcoming book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments. Booking isn’t alone. Other companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Research Summary
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
and how investors can disagree so sharply on controversial companies ranging from Netflix to Uber to Tesla. Gerdeman: When a company has a lot of cash, a CEO can choose to grow the company organically—through expansion—or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
Development Process Effectively balance the deliberate and emergent strategy processes to unlock innovation within your organization and determine which “type” of money will empower new business ideas to flourish. Highlights The Resource Allocation Process View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
Whillans says. “Employers could offer workers a couple extra discretionary days where they can stay home just because they want to watch Netflix on a Friday. Companies should start looking at these ideas as a potential path to greater... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
evaluating new opportunities, we should base our decisions on marginal costs and revenues. The book cites the fall of movie rental giant Blockbuster. Ten years ago, the company decided not to explore the market of then-upstart Netflix, because View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Overview
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Info As Netflix Film Chairman, Dan Lin (MBA 1999) oversees movie production at the world’s largest streaming service at 270 million subscribers and counting. With a solid grip on financials and a track record of hits like The LEGO Movie ,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
alongside them,’ wrote Patty McCord, the company’s chief talent officer from 1998 to 2012. ‘Excellent colleagues trump everything else.’ Netflix hires ‘fully formed adults,’ self-sufficient people “who feel responsible for the company,... View Details
- Career Coach
Aaron Mitchell
and companies make unexpected connections to address challenges, broaden perspectives and redefine what prosperity means. He was recently the Director of HR for Netflix Animation, where he led HR for one of the largest and fastest growing... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Sir David Clementi Named BBC Chairman
for TV licences for over-75s. In news, the BBC has to innovate to meet the digital demands of a new generation of consumers. And in entertainment, where it has long been used to being the biggest beast in the jungle, there are new predators such as View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 09 Nov 2021
- News
Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America
cash holdings “in financial institutions and organizations that directly support Black communities.” As part of that effort, Netflix deposited $10 million in Hope Credit Union, a Black-owned bank. The pledge also included a call to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
chief talent officer at Netflix. You won’t find empty values statements on the walls of a Netflix conference room, not on McCord’s watch. As she helped to build Netflix into a media giant, McCord articulated... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Boutique workouts brought to the busiest people, at home
challenges, she was inspired to build her first entrepreneurial venture, Booya Fitness. “Think of it as the Netflix for high-end fitness workouts,” says Kumar. Produced in 30-minute video segments, Booya makes it easy for even the busiest... View Details
- 05 Apr 2020
- News
Launching in a World in Limbo
the context. With potential customers largely confined to their homes, it will now go up against established platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video that can be watched on any screen, including the living room TV. Quibi works only... View Details
- Portrait Project
Marilyn Wang
the years since, my fate was sealed, forever the bookworm, sidelined and unworthy of being the star of my own story. That changed May of 2016, the first time I saw myself. Watching comedian Ali Wong prance around the stage seven-and-a-half months pregnant in her View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
models were established, how competitive forces have driven their evolution, and the importance of constantly evolving and tuning a firm's model. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/American-Airlines-in-2011/an/615009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-007... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details