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- 12 Jun 2016
- News
"An Opportunity to Make People Happy"
- 12 Dec 2014
- News
The Paradox of Managing Creativity
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
Bridgitt Bertram Evans (MBA 1986) loves contemporary art for its aesthetic appeal, but also for its ability to challenge existing norms. And now she's transforming the industry in much the same spirit with VIA Art Fund, a new model of funding for contemporary arts.... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
Photos courtesy of Minal Mehta When did you and your cofounders come up with the idea of a Bollywood-inspired dance and fitness program? "I grew up splitting my time between swimming pools and dance studios. When I wasn't choreographing synchronized swimming routines,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
by Dan Morrell Perhaps the biggest free agent target in major league baseball this off-season was 25-year-old Masahiro Tanaka, a pitcher in the Japanese professional league with a devastating split-finger fastball who made international headlines by winning a record 30... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Bankable Trust
Carla Ann Harris (MBA 1987) is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, in charge of the marketing and execution of new-issue equity financing in the technology, media, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and health-care sectors. With a workload... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Play's the Thing
Baron: prize winning playwright. Visiting Mr. Green, by Jeff Baron (MBA '78), is a play about the relationship that develops between an elderly widower and the youthful executive who almost kills him while driving recklessly down a Manhattan street. To make amends, the... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Lone Star Star
Paul Wylie Texas may seem an unlikely point of origin for an ice skater, but the Lone Star State recently welcomed home native son Paul Wylie (MBA '00), winner of the silver medal in men's figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics. Wylie, now a marketing executive for... View Details
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Jonathan Bailey
experience, "that they were quite delighted and amused to get their tour from a Brit." Giving tours was the entertaining side of the serious Senate business of, "writing memos," Jonathan says, "for senior staff on... View Details
- April 1999
- Case
Steve Perlman and WebTV (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang
The dynamics of a linked series of internal and external negotiations involved in launching, growing, and selling a high-tech, Internet start-up are explored. Steve Perlman unfurled an impressive new technology, recruited a top technical and management team, secured... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Process; Value Creation; Alliances; Technological Innovation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Sebenius, James K., and Ron Fortgang. "Steve Perlman and WebTV (B)." Harvard Business School Case 899-271, April 1999.
- November 2018 (Revised February 2019)
- Teaching Plan
Gimlet Media: A Podcasting Startup
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
When digital distribution becomes an option for an analog industry, the effects on the incumbents can be devastating. Is podcasting the beginning of the end of radio? Can it do what streaming video did to television and websites did to print? Two former public radio... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
information, and savings. "An entire industry imploded," he asserted. "Now the industry is driven by the retail marketplace. And [online traders] are having fun." Indeed the "fun," or entertainment value, of e-commerce cannot be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Feedback
“the sound of dog food glopping out of a can.” (Buy a of copy of his book, MouthSounds, if you want to know more.) I’ve long enjoyed Fred’s creative ability to make me smile. I put him in a special category of entertaining HBSers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
JetBlue, and Ryanair all grew during recessions, as did Charles Schwab, Home Depot, and Trader Joe’s. A second customer hook is affordable indulgence. As consumers pare back, they also need ways to entertain themselves and indulge in... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- June 2009
- Article
Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals
By: Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Film Entertainment; Demand and Consumers; Renting or Rental; Power and Influence; Prejudice and Bias; Online Technology; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Milkman, Katherine L., Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman. "Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals." Management Science 55, no. 6 (June 2009): 1047–1059.
- 03 Feb 2021
- News