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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Motion Picture Industry: Critical Issues in Practice, Current Research & New Research Directions

Keywords: by Jehoshua Eliashberg, Anita Elberse & Mark A. A. M. Leenders; Motion Pictures & Video; Motion Pictures & Video; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

  PublicationsEmotion-induced Engagement in Internet Video Ads Authors:Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel, and Rik Pieters Publication:Journal of Marketing Research (forthcoming) Abstract This study shows how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2022
  • Background Note

The Future of E-Commerce: Lessons from the Livestream Wars in China

By: Ayelet Israeli, Jeremy Yang and Billy Chan
This note explores the emerging multi-billion dollar commerce trend of livestream commerce. Livestream commerce is the sale of goods or services directly to consumers via live shows on digital platforms (such as social media or e-commerce platforms). It is a form of... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Retailing; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Ecommerce; Channels Of Distribution; Marketing Communication; Livestream Commerce; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Advertising; Brands and Branding; Media; Consumer Behavior; Social Media; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; China; United States; United Kingdom
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  • September 2004 (Revised February 2010)
  • Case

The Passion of the Christ (A)

By: John A. Quelch, Anita Elberse and Anna Harrington
Bob Berney, president of Newmarket Films, must decide on a distribution and marketing strategy for Mel Gibson's controversial new movie, The Passion of the Christ. Fueled by Gibson's star power as well as an extensive prescreening campaign among Christian leaders and... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Film Entertainment; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Distribution Channels; Religion; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • June 2007 (Revised April 2010)
  • Case

Comcast Corporation

By: Anita Elberse and Jason Schreiber
In October 2006, Comcast executives had entered negotiations with broadcast networks to broaden the selection of free network content distributed via its video-on-demand (VOD) service. The major broadcast networks, however, were unsure of the effect it would have on... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Consumer Behavior; Competitive Strategy; Technology Adoption; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • October 2007 (Revised December 2007)
  • Case

TiVo 2007: DVRs and Beyond

By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo, had placed multiple strategic bets on his company. In September 2007, that strategy was due for a major test. TiVo was a maker of digital video recorder (DVR) products and a distributor of DVR technology. Rogers believed that macro-trends in... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Business Model; Television Entertainment; Intellectual Property; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Distribution; Problems and Challenges; Partners and Partnerships; Research; Internet; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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  • May–June 2011
  • Article

The Uninvited Brand

By: Susan Fournier and Jill Avery
Brands rushed into social media, viewing social networks, video sharing, online communities, and microblogging sites as the panacea to diminishing returns for traditional brand building routes. But, as more branding activity moves to the web, marketers are confronted... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Brands; Brand Building; Brand Management; Digital Marketing; Advertising Campaigns; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Social Media; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry
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  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

and the reorganization promoted more efficient matching, chiefly due to the increased ability of later matching to produce "championship" games. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-010.pdf The Internalization of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

had suggested—and if so, who should be charged how much and for what? Could YouTube charge users for downloading content, a model it was now beginning to test? Or would it be better for the online video giant to continue to pursue an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Why Do Consumers Contribute to Connected Goods? A Dynamic Game of Competition and Cooperation in Social Networks

Social network platforms and media rely on the voluntary contributions of individual users to stay relevant. Consumers (users) contribute content such as photographs, videos, tweets etc.: these are available to any of their friends or peers, but not... View Details

  • January 2020 (Revised July 2020)
  • Supplement

MoviePass: The 'Get Big Fast' Strategy

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
In August 2017, MoviePass dramatically lowered its subscription price from $50 per month to just $10 for up to one movie per day. The idea was to rapidly scale the business to the point where they could generate incremental revenue streams form related businesses... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry; Growth Strategy; Profit Vs. Growth; Subscription Business; Cash Burn; Data Analytics; Get-big-fast; Buyer Power; Strategy Implementation; Movie Industry; Racing; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Consolidation; Cash Flow; Growth Management; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Mobile Technology; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; United States
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  • 19 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

Thanks (or no thanks) to social media, brand managers have lost the power to control the perception of their products through carefully orchestrated advertising campaigns. These days, consumers are in command. With an angry tweet, a happy... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • June 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light

By: Jill Avery and Celine Chammas
On April 1, 2023, social media content creator and influencer Dylan Mulvaney recorded a promotional post. It featured a video of herself drinking from a can of Bud Light beer, offering a virtual toast to her followers. Alongside the video, she posted a photograph of a... View Details
Keywords: Brand Crises; Brand Management; Influencer Marketing; Boycott; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Communications; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Social Media; Advertising; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 17 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

Older Internet users may remember the battles over the commercialization of the Web in the early 1990s, when the first Mosaic browser was introduced. Back then, pioneering adopters passionately condemned the first Web advertisers and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Advertising
  • November 2019
  • Teaching Note

Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A) and (B)

By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
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; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Turkey
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  • September 2017
  • Supplement

Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A)

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; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Turkey
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  • September 2017 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A)

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 largest player in the market, AFM,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Value Creation; Transformation; Valuation; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Turkey
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  • 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; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Turkey
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  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos The Revolution in Advertising: From Don Draper to Big Data Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales What do you think? What big flops... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Advertising