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18 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

with ROI-based, smaller implementations. Ed Kania If most tech needs are being met through large application packages, why entertain the idea of having smaller software companies pitch? If you believe that the Web is the next new wave of... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza

talents within the business world, Mendoza joined the HBS A cappella group, Heard on the Street, and the HBS Sound Society, a spinoff of the Entertainment Media Club focused on the music industry, which gave her more opportunities to... View Details

April 2025
Case

Giving Up on a Passion: Elizabeth Rowe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Alexis Lefort

For 20 years, Elizabeth Rowe was a world-renowned principal flutist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But in 2024, Rowe decided to leave her position to pursue a new full-time career as a leadership coach. At 50, Rowe was well under the typical retirement age, and,... View Details

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Ann Chao

Ann entertained three entrepreneurial possibilities—testing them in an independent study with Entrepreneurial Management Professor Shikhar Ghosh—before committing to one full time. Bringing the social joy of music to individual practice... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Ask the Expert: Bounce Back

newsletter advertising can be extended to many industries: hotels or airlines can embed ads for attractions near featured destinations or travel accessories, entertainment venues can embed ads for local restaurants and bars, retailers... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

purview of headquarters. Headquarters has given them full responsibility for performance with little direct oversight, and allowed them to develop a more objective view of the enterprise and its strategies. This enables them to entertain... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office. He joined the HBS faculty in 2013 and he co-designed and teaches the courses Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship, and Scaling Minority Businesses. McGee serves as faculty... View Details

03 Apr 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Learning or Playing? The Effect of Gamified Training on Performance

Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell, Wei Cai, and Tatiana Sandino

Profile

Blake Landro

organizational skills I’m learning in business school,” he says. Looking ahead, Blake is interested in a career “where entertainment meets technology,” either as a content partner manager or within an agency that specializes in reaching... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Research Brief: Better Brainstorming

aspiring entrepreneurs who were taking part in a three-week startup bootcamp. Participants underwent personality evaluation to determine their level of openness (defined as having greater curiosity, questioning convention, and View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

February 2011 (Revised August 2012)
Teaching Note

Emotiv Systems Inc.: It's the Thoughts that Count (TN)

By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred

Teaching Note for 510050. View Details

Keywords: Product Launch; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Decision Choices and Conditions; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Marketing Channels; Price

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01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Scott C. Bolick

embarked on a "steep learning curve" at Andersen Consulting in San Francisco, where he joined the company's Media and Entertainment division. Technology became his newfound passion at Andersen, leading him to HBS to pursue his MBA and... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

March 2011 (Revised September 2011)
Background Note

Everyone and Everything is Online

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett

The twenty-first century digital world enabled mobile, empowered, content-hungry individuals to capture the value of enabling technologies and applications to manage, create, share, and influence content across the creation and delivery spectrum. Users were online in... View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Learning; Entertainment; Power and Influence; Internet and the Web; Value; Web Services Industry

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01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

Her Ambitions Margaret Glover—In the Right Environment Karla (Rose) Middlebrooks—Keeping to the Middle Lane Gwen Shuster-Haynes—The Write Stuff John Weber—Newly Energized Monica Dodi Entertaining Her Ambitions On the "stresses-of-life"... View Details

29 Sep 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

File-Sharing and Copyright Researchers Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf argue that file-sharing technology has not undermined the incentives of artists and entertainment companies to create, market, and distribute new works. Key... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

04 Sep 2019
News

INK: Out of Exile

role of stories in your own life? I come from a storytelling culture. My great-grandmother’s village in Iran had almost no modern amenities, so people told stories as entertainment and to keep up with news. Then, as a refugee you have a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2005
News

Trouble in Mouse Land

In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March–April 2023
Article

Pricing for Heterogeneous Products: Analytics for Ticket Reselling

By: Michael Alley, Max Biggs, Rim Hariss, Charles Herrmann, Michael Lingzhi Li and Georgia Perakis

Problem definition: We present a data-driven study of the secondary ticket market. In particular, we are primarily concerned with accurately estimating price sensitivity for listed tickets. In this setting, there are many issues including endogeneity, heterogeneity in... View Details

Keywords: Price; Demand and Consumers; AI and Machine Learning; Investment Return; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

February 2023
Supplement

Peloton Interactive (B)

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and David Lane

Supplements “Peloton Interactive (A)” (HBS No. 323-005), describing company restructuring and changes to management and the board of directors between February 8 and early October 2022. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth Management; Investment Activism; Leadership; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

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June 2013 (Revised February 2014)
Case

FanMode: Launching a Global Sports Venture

By: Shikhar Ghosh, William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

Neven Murugan is developing FanMode, an app that allows sports fans all over the world to broadcast their reactions in real time into stadiums where their team is playing. It also provides social networking across sports fans. The company is growing, and its founders... View Details