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- May 2013 (Revised January 2015)
- Teaching Note
H Partners and Six Flags
By: Robin Greenwood, Julie Messina and Jared Dourdeville
Teaching Note for #211090 & #211096 View Details
- August 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Wii Encore?
By: Andrei Hagiu
Nintendo faced huge difficulties in July 2011. Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox had caught up with the innovative motion-sensing controllers of the original Wii. And the new Nintendo 3DS handheld console had experienced a very disappointing start. Moreover,... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Innovation Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Brands and Branding; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Hagiu, Andrei. "Wii Encore?" Harvard Business School Case 712-416, August 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
- November 1994 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
Dennis Hightower: Walt Disney's Transnational Manager
By: Ashish Nanda
Describes the actions taken by Dennis Hightower as president of Disney Consumer Products in Europe and the Middle East from 1988 to 1994. Focuses on how he has established a regional office and knit local operations closer together, the benefits that the process has... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Change Management; Corporate Strategy; Personal Development and Career; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe
Nanda, Ashish. "Dennis Hightower: Walt Disney's Transnational Manager." Harvard Business School Case 395-056, November 1994. (Revised June 1996.)
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping change across an View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Center Stage
Center Stage HBS alumni with close ties to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City gathered in Starr Theater in late July for a special event to celebrate the eight-year collaboration between the School and the center. The relationship, focused on... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Finding an Audience
Rene Solis (MBA 1958) is director of Musica en Mexico, a performing arts information service in Mexico City. In this interview he talks about how the group grew out of a personal mission to today serving a wide community of interest. “I have been a business man most of... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- News
Two On-Track Investments
Photo via the Baltimore Sun Photo via the Baltimore Sun There are no sure bets in Thoroughbred racing—but for many, the thrill of watching a horse thundering down the track far outweighs the risk of loss, whether the stake is a $2 bet or a $200,000 investment in a... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Checking in with One Championship
As a student at HBS, Chatri Sityodtong (MBA 1999) lived on four dollars a day, teaching the martial arts discipline of Muay Thai and sending the extra cash home to his mother and brother in Bangkok. “Everything I owned could fit into a single suitcase,” he recently... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Scrum-Thing Special
A long-standing ritual was upheld on a crisp October afternoon when the HBS Rugby Football Club took to the pitch against the “Old Boys” alumni team. Jim Johnstone and Morris McInnes (both MBA ’65) first organized the sport on campus; today, the club includes graduate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
Using Adventure to Excite Young Minds I have always associated adventure on the high seas with novels like Moby-Dick and Treasure Island, something from the distant past, gone with the golden age of sail. Then Rich Wilson (MBA ’82) opened my eyes to new possibilities.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
Standing in a swirl of tourists that includes a gaggle of teenage girls, clusters of road-weary families, and a nun in full habit, Ted Hustead (OPM 30, 2001) appraises a mechanized Tyrannosaurus rex as it raises its enormous head, roars, and blows clouds of smoke from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
Fred Newman remembers a particularly chilly HBS cold call. Completely unprepared to open a finance case, he used a different talent to get through it. Newman did his impression of a fly and buzzed out of his seat and around the Aldrich classroom until he hit the back... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain damage and disease resulting... View Details
- 09 Jun 2011
- News
The Tycoons, HBS's First A Cappella Group
The Tycoons in 1950 Songs Sung by the 1957 Tycoons: Money We Love the Ladies All the Things You Are My Fair Lady Medley Lydia, the Tattooed Lady Imagination Ugly Chile Princess Papuli Honey Teasin' Medley Sunshine Girl (Quartet) Subway Song Stairway to the Stars... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
Miller Photo courtesy James Andrew Miller Having spent much of my time since graduating from HBS working in television or writing books or movies, I’m often asked why I went to business school in the first place, and whether I regretted it in the second. The truth is,... View Details
- June 2018 (Revised October 2018)
- Teaching Note
Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A), (B), and (C)
By: Marco Di Maggio and Benjamin C. Esty
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 218-095, 218-096, and 218-116. View Details
Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Underwriters; Investment Banking; Social Network; Discounted Cash Flow; Cost Of Capital; Conflicts Of Interest; Corporate Governance; Advertising; Quiet Period; Business Startups; Digital Marketing; Initial Public Offering; Information Infrastructure; Valuation; Venture Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Media; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; United States; California