Entertainment and Recreation Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2006
Teaching Note

Process Control at Polaroid (A) (TN)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Steven C. Wheelwright

Teaching Note to 693047. View Details

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25 Jul 2012
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Movie Magic

Kaplan: "Automated retail" dispenses movie magic. Photo courtesy Gregg Kaplan/Redbox If you’ve seen one at your local US grocery store, you know that “vending machine” is an inadequate description for Redbox, the sleek, red (of course) kiosks that dispense new-release... View Details

Keywords: vending machines; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

May 1997
Teaching Note

Toy World, Inc., Teaching Note

By: W. Carl Kester

Teaching Note for (9-295-073). View Details

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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01 Dec 2015
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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 Dec 2007
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Faculty Research Online

negative publicity. What should the country do to polish its image? Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5777.html. Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure The early days of the subprime industry seemed to fulfill a market need, View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment

15 Dec 2011
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An HBS gift guide

media company going local throughout the world, and it was the key to our success.” In 1989, Bill Roedy was told to transform the American success story MTV into a global presence. Twenty years later, Roedy (a former nuclear missile–base... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2009
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HBS Art Collection Now Online

As a student at HBS, Gerald Schwartz (MBA ’70) says the only thing missing was an artistic presence. For the past decade, Schwartz, founder and CEO of Onex Corporation, a private-equity firm in Toronto, has been on a mission to bring... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

November 1983
Case

Cablevision of Boston

By: Howard H. Stevenson

Keywords: Television Entertainment; Business and Government Relations; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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01 Sep 2008
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Looking to the Majors

PAULSON: Sports is a tough business for ROI, but the returns to the community can be ample. Merritt Paulson (MBA ’00), owner of the minor league Portland Beavers Triple-A baseball team and the United Soccer League’s Portland Timbers, is... View Details

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

01 Apr 1997
News

Guitar Hero

As any music industry executive will tell you, rock-and-roll drives the business. And as any ten-year-old with a boom box knows, the guitar rules rock. So when it comes to pop music's signature instrument,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

October 2003 (Revised December 2003)
Case

Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2003 (B)

By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Christina L. Darwall

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Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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01 Mar 2011
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Cyberposium 16

TechMedia Club’s Cyberposium 16 (www.cyberposium.com), which drew hundreds of industry practitioners, entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and students to HBS last November. Titled “Battle of the Platforms,”... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Mar 2004
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Kilimanjaro

“If I had known how hard it would be, I never would have done it. But I’m really glad I did.” That was the most common response among the group of fifteen HBS alumni and friends who participated in the pre-safari optional adventure of... View Details

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

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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15 Jun 2021
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Action Plan: Come as You Are

Courtesy Josh Basseches Well over a year into the pandemic, many of us are craving opportunities for direct interaction in a lived, physical space. “So many of us have been engaging with colleagues, family, and friends through Zoom View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; museums; art; cognition; diversity; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions

01 Feb 2001
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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, View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment