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  • October 2020 (Revised July 2023)
  • Case

The Walt Disney Company: The 21st Century Fox Acquisition and Digital Distribution

By: David J. Collis
This case describes the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by the Walt Disney Company and the subsequent launch by Disney of three streaming channels to compete with Netflix. View Details
Keywords: Disney; Streaming; Corporate Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Distribution; Competitive Strategy; Vertical Integration; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    Howard H. Stevenson

    Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

    Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
    • 25 May 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: May 25

    attempting the transformation required to embrace a new, dominant technology—the choice to maintain focus on the old technology. In considering this choice we distinguish between "racing" strategies, which attempt to fight off the rise of the new technology... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 04 Aug 2009
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    First Look: August 4

    Montgomery County Public Schools Authors:Stacey M. Childress, Dennis Doyle, and David A. Thomas, with a foreword by David Gergen Publication:Cambridge: Harvard Education Press,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Jul 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

    July–August 2017 Harvard Business Review Finding the Platform in Your Product: Four Strategies That Can Reveal Hidden Value By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Elizabeth J. Altman Abstract—Five of the 10 most valuable companies in the world... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 May 2012
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    First Look: May 29

    will adopt the change. By contrast, strong ties to potentially influential organization members who disapprove of a change outright (resistors) are an effective means of affective cooptation only when a change diverges little from... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Strategy Faculty - Faculty & Research

    Professor of Business Administration Josh Baron Senior Lecturer of Business Administration David J. Collis Adjunct Professor Carolyn J. Fu... View Details
    • Web

    Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

    Tushman Ashley V. Whillans Letian Zhang Ting Zhang Julian J. Zlatev Current HBS Faculty & Students by Interest Decision-making Max H. Bazerman David E. Bell Alex Chan Edward H.... View Details
    • 15 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    September 15, 2015

    Operations Management Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi Abstract—We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Aug 2012
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    First Look: August 21

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-016.pdf Channels of Influence Authors:Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Feb 2008
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    First Look: February 12, 2007

      Working PapersColonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India Authors:Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-062.pdf Rewriting History Authors:Alexander... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 13 Sep 2011
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    First Look: September 13

    http://www.ftpress.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132779781 Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Publication:Management Science (forthcoming)... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Jan 2018
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    January 30, 2018

    historically, only government-subsidized products have achieved widespread adoption. A recent contractual innovation, which links insurance payouts to realized weather rather than farmer indemnity, has spurred substantial research in the past decade. This review begins... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Marketing - Doctoral

    Das Narayandas Seth Neel Michael I. Norton Elie Ofek Elisabeth C. Paulson V. Kasturi Rangan Maria P. Roche Raffaella Sadun George Serafeim Sara McKinley Torti Isamar Troncoso Jeremy Yang Dennis A. Yao David B. Yoffie Shunyuan Zhang... View Details
    • July–August 2021
    • Article

    Why Do So Many Strategies Fail?

    By: David J. Collis
    THE PROBLEM: Seemingly successful new companies struggle to turn a healthy profit. Established firms get disrupted by upstarts. Companies that excel at serving their markets can’t adapt when customers’ tastes shift. THE ROOT CAUSE: All too often, business leaders focus... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Strategic Planning; Business Model; Value; Value Creation; Opportunities
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    Business Economics - Doctoral

    lens of business. Jointly administered by HBS and the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the program combines theoretical analysis with in-depth, interdisciplinary research rooted in real-world applications.... View Details
    • 16 Sep 2008
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    First Look: September 16, 2008

      Working PapersMarket Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe Authors:Christopher S. Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the European stock market reaction to sixteen events... View Details
    • 27 Jun 2017
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    First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

    Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing Abstract—Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 Sep 2011
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    First Look: September 27

    ordinary managers. In The Innovator's DNA, the authors identify five capabilities demonstrated by the best innovators: (1) Associating: drawing connections between questions, problems, or ideas from unrelated fields; (2) Questioning:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Oct 2011
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    First Look: October 25

    Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne