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01 Mar 2017
News

Lego Stays on Script

approach, in essence, was true to the spirit of Lego’s brand. According to Moynihan, there’s a reason for all of those figures that Lin asked (and was granted permission) to play with in his movie, from Wonder Woman to C-3PO: “Given the way the media View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 2001
News

Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters

The story of how nonprofit start-up Montage Entertainment came about would be familiar to many past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest. “Some friends and I were sitting in the café at Shad,... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment

04 Sep 2019
News

What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)

“Music is wired into us,” says Keith Cerny (MBA 1991). “Singing is something that is very human, and from singing, it’s very easy to go into playing instruments.” Cerny’s own connection with music began at age 10, with the San Francisco... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

April 1975 (Revised April 1983)
Case

Boston Symphony Orchestra

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Keywords: Arts; Music Entertainment; Music Industry; Music Industry; Boston

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November 2004 (Revised October 2005)
Supplement

Leading the Josie Esquivel Franchise (B)

By: Boris Groysberg and Laura Morgan Roberts

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Last year when Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) posed this question — from a poem by Pulitzer Prize–winner Mary Oliver — to his sectionmates, he was impressed with what the... View Details

Keywords: HBS; portrait project; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2005
News

Change Channel

Brian Graden (MBA ’89) is president of MTV Networks and of Logo, the new gay-oriented cable channel launched in June. Logo features mostly movies but also documentaries, sports, travel shows, original sitcoms, concerts, View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

12 Jan 2010
News

Career Profile: The Art Dealer

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions

November 1994 (Revised November 1995)
Case

SweetWater

By: H. Kent Bowen and Thomas D. Everett

Focuses on developing a promising idea into a viable product design by considering customer needs early in the design process. Following an Alaskan fishing trip, Sandy Platter, a computer peripherals engineer, has a new idea for a portable water-filter device for use... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Independent Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Customers; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Colorado

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29 Aug 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls

Keywords: by Guillaume R. Fréchette, Alvin E. Roth & M. Utku Ünver; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation

June 2006
Teaching Note

Process Control at Polaroid (A) (TN)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Steven C. Wheelwright

Teaching Note to 693047. View Details

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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29 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

leadership, working my up to CMO, and then President and CEO roles. I worked on educational toys and entertainment properties (Hasbro),... View Details

April 2007
Supplement

Dataset for "Clear Channel Communications, Inc." (CW)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Keywords: Media; Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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March 2021
Case

Sky Deutschland - Bidding for Sports Rights (A)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Sascha L. Schmidt, Renate Imoberdorf and Sebastian Koppers

Carsten Schmidt, CEO of Sky Deutschland, needs to prepare for the auction of German soccer rights. Much was at stake. Not only was soccer the most widely watched sport in Germany, the company had long advertised that only Sky showed “every game, every goal.” In... View Details

Keywords: Sports; Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Intellectual Property; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Germany

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25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

the weakening of democratic governance and the politics of decisions about industrial policy. Publisher's link: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05631-9.html August 2013 Research Policy Digital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 1997 (Revised September 2000)
Case

Disney (B): The Third Battle of Bull Run

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Georgia Levenson

The saga of Disney's efforts to build a theme park in Manassas, Va. in the early 1990s is told. Disney's strategy against the various opponents of the project is presented. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Types; Tourism Industry; Tourism Industry; United States

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18 Sep 2008
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HBS Olympians

While watching the spectacular and only slightly enhanced (digitally and chemically) Olympics, I found myself wondering how many HBS Olympians there have been over the years. I could think of only one—Paul... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Olympics; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

03 Sep 2018
News

Moving Pictures

favorite line in Spotlight. “A good case presents a set of facts and pushes the reader to ask certain questions. That’s what I want to do too.” Advancing a career in any industry requires some... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment