Publications

June 2002
Teaching Note

Valuing the AOL Time Warner Merger, TN

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Maddy Kadish

Teaching Note for (9-802-098). View Details

Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

October 2003
Article

Relative versus Absolute Speed of Adjustment in Strategic Environments: Responder Behavior in Ultimatum Games

By: David J. Cooper, Nick Feltovich, Alvin E. Roth and Rami Zwick

Keywords: Strategy; Behavior; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

December 1977
Article

Utility Functions for Simple Games

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling

May 2025
Case

The Future of the BBC: Public Ownership vs. Privatization

By: Henry McGee

With viewership of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in decline, the country’s Culture Minister must recommend a new funding model for the venerated public institution which will allow the broadcaster to succeed in an increasingly competitive media environment. View Details

Keywords: Television Entertainment; Cooperative Ownership; State Ownership; Privatization; Public Ownership; Competition; Business Model; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United Kingdom

Educators

October 1990 (Revised February 1991)
Case

Sony Corp.: Globalization

By: Michael Y. Yoshino

Keywords: Globalization; Globalized Firms and Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

to the monsoon season that makes shopping indoors an attractive prospect. There's also an entertainment factor, he added—more and more Indians are beginning to see shopping as an enjoyable pastime. Ground... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

May 1986
Case

Sunshine Toy Co., Software Case

By: Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

August 2002 (Revised May 2003)
Teaching Note

Supply Chain Close-Up: The Video Vault TN

By: V.G. Narayanan

Teaching Note for (9-102-070). View Details

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

January 1999
Case

Lark International Entertainment, Ltd. (Video)

By: Linda A. Hill

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

Educators

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

Many newspapers saw the emergence of the Internet as an attack on their core business, and responded with online products of their own. Unfortunately, says HBS professor Clark Gilbert, the papers failed to take advantage of the Web as a... View Details

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

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding and early growth; its expansion into multiple market segments including hotel reservations, air ticketing, leisure travel, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2004 (Revised November 2004)
Supplement

Martha Stewart (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

solved by technology, no matter how good. Anybody in retail or entertainment or education has a difficult situation to handle. Anybody delivering medical services faces an entirely different and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

September 1979
Article

An Impossibility Result Concerning n-Person Bargaining Games

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Negotiation; Games, Gaming, and Gambling