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- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
actually made me better at my “day job,” so to speak. Working in the entertainment industry, we’re interacting all the time with actors, writers, producers, and directors. I wouldn’t put myself in the same league, but having a small taste... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- February 2011
- Supplement
Dataset for "Slots, Tables, and All That Jazz: Managing Customer Profitability at the MGM Grand Hotel" (CW)
By: Dennis Campbell and Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Datasets of gaming and hotel customers to perform analysis for the case. View Details
Martha R. Ingram
After her husband’s death in 1995, Ingram successfully managed the family business, making a series of bold moves, including the spin-off and public offering of Ingram Micro, the United States’ largest computer wholesaler. Today, Ingram Industries and Ingram View Details
Keywords: Services
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
searching for valuable information that is relevant to them. They also want to be entertained, and the 'hard sell' that turns them off can be at the level of simply presenting the brand's logo for more than a few seconds." Mystery ads try to View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning or Playing? The Effect of Gamified Training on Performance
- winter 1997
- Article
The Effects of Market Structure and Ownership on Prices and Service Offerings in the Cable Television Industry
By: Willis Emmons and Robin A. Prager
Keywords: Markets; Ownership; Price; Service Delivery; Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Emmons, Willis, and Robin A. Prager. "The Effects of Market Structure and Ownership on Prices and Service Offerings in the Cable Television Industry." RAND Journal of Economics 28, no. 4 (winter 1997): 732–750.
Robert Lehman
Lehman firmly hitched the bank’s future to consumption rather than production, and in so doing, he led Lehman Brothers to the number one position among New York investment firms. Under his leadership, the bank concentrated its investments on airlines, View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
driverless? Is it an advertising space? A connected entertainment center? A personal transportation sanctuary? —Jeff Zeller (MBA 2016) KAPOOR: The internal space will be very different. Up until now, cars have been designed for a scenario... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- News
Building Trust at YouTube
- 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