Publications

04 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Finding Your Creative Outlet on Campus

HBS students come to campus from all over the world with different industry backgrounds, passions, abilities, and motivations. The aspects that make each student unique do not disappear once they enter the... 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;... View Details

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

winter 2007
Article

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

By: Guillaume R. Frechette, Alvin E. Roth and M. Utku Unver

Keywords: Entertainment; Sports Industry

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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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27 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

Noa Torok, MBA 2019, came to HBS with a blank slate. “I arrived with zero expectations,” she says. “I had no idea what I wanted to do.” Her prior experience had shown her the opposite – what she did not want to do. After studying both law View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

31 May 2013
News

Seeing the Light

EVANS: A second career emerges from a lifelong avocation. Photo courtesy of Chip Evans For decades, Chip Evans (MBA 1973) was a Mad Man in Manhattan, doing account work for major Fortune 500 clients at iconic advertising agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather, Foote Cone... View Details

Keywords: painting; Arts, Entertainment

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

industrial location, talking and asking about the question with the nervous energy for which his team had always known him. By his own words, LaMagna was "a risk addict View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

May 2019
Teaching Note

SeatGeek

By: Robert F. Higgins and Sarah Mehta

Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-013. View Details

Keywords: Event Ticketing; Sports Ticketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Model; Decision Making; Digital Platforms; Sports; Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; New York (city, NY)

May 1986
Case

Sunshine Toy Co., Software Case

By: Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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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

April 2006 (Revised November 2006)
Case

Livedoor

By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor

The president of Fuji Television must decide how to respond to a competing bid for the shares of Nippon Broadcasting Systems (NBS). Livedoor, the other bidder, is a highly valued Internet company that has been accused of financial wizardry to keep its stock price high. View Details

Keywords: Stock Shares; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Television Entertainment; Behavioral Finance; Corporate Finance; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Japan

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

qualitatively confirm the mechanism of industry migration proposed in models like Duranton. [Duranton, G., 2007. "Urban Evolutions: The Fast, the Slow, and the Still." American Economic Review 97,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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, View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

September 2014
Case

Marquee: Reinventing the Business of Nightlife

By: Anita Elberse

Keywords: Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Distribution Channels; Product Marketing; Entertainment and Recreation Industry