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  • 04 Jan 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Learning Effects of Monitoring

Keywords: by Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein & Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez; Entertainment & Recreation
  • Profile

Pam Wildeman

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? After a few years in Finance, I learned that career success and passion don’t always go hand in hand. I also felt that my experience base was very industry-specific. So more than just wanting to transition careers, I... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media
  • 31 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

attributes. You see that with the success of the airline JetBlue, for example: It has no meals and no round-trip airfares, but it does have leather seats and personal entertainment centers that delight and surprise its passengers.... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service
  • 15 Apr 2015
  • Blog Post

Subverting Career Trajectories

and why you should be admitted. It can never hurt to bounce your ideas off of both people in the business world as well as those who are less familiar with your career path and goals.What advice do you have for admitted students?Allow yourself to View Details
  • 14 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

On the Road: Zurich, Warsaw, and Istanbul

good books to read or movies to watch while traveling? Because we were traveling to three cities in six days, it was essential to have good travel entertainment material. Our book choices were: Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and The... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Book of Esports: The Definitive Guide to Competitive Video Games by William Collis (MBA 2011) RosettaBooks Almost overnight, esports—or competitive video games—have exploded into the largest View Details
  • September 2019 (Revised October 2019)
  • Case

Burunda Prince at The Farm, a Comcast NBCUniversal Innovation Hub (Powered by Boomtown)

By: Linda A. Hill, Eric Mankin and Emily Tedards
After a successful inaugural year, Burunda Prince, the Managing Director of Comcast’s startup business accelerator The Farm, was getting ready for an eventful 2019. Comcast was America's largest cable and internet service provider, having built a profitable business... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Accelerator; Entrepreneur; Startup; Outsourcing; Hiring; Talent; Culture; Ecosystem; Digital; Women; African Americans; Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Management; Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Media; Entertainment; Transformation; Atlanta
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Hill, Linda A., Eric Mankin, and Emily Tedards. "Burunda Prince at The Farm, a Comcast NBCUniversal Innovation Hub (Powered by Boomtown)." Harvard Business School Case 420-057, September 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Personalized Game Design for Improved User Retention and Monetization in Freemium Games

By: Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer and Julian Runge
One of the most crucial aspects and significant levers that gaming companies possess in designing digital games is setting the level of difficulty, which essentially regulates the user’s ability to progress within the game. This aspect is particularly significant in... View Details
Keywords: Freemium; Retention/churn; Field Experiment; Field Experiments; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Mobile App; Mobile App Industry; Monetization; Monetization Strategy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Customers; Retention; Product Design; Strategy
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Ascarza, Eva, Oded Netzer, and Julian Runge. "Personalized Game Design for Improved User Retention and Monetization in Freemium Games." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-062, November 2020. (Revised December 2023.)
  • December 2017
  • Teaching Note

Centerbridge Partners and Great Wolf Resorts: Buying from a Highly Regarded Competitor

By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 818-023 and 818-024. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity Financing; Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities; CMBS; Secondary Buyouts; Sbo; Business Exit or Shutdown; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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Lerner, Josh, John D. Dionne, and Amram Migdal. "Centerbridge Partners and Great Wolf Resorts: Buying from a Highly Regarded Competitor." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 818-069, December 2017.
  • 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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Bowen, H. Kent, and Thomas D. Everett. "SweetWater." Harvard Business School Case 695-026, November 1994. (Revised November 1995.)
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)

photo by Ryan Donnell Last October, Gordon Medenica was in New York for an industry conference when the calls started coming in. As lead director of Mega Millions, the multi-state consortium he’s been overseeing since 2017, Medenica was the man to ask about a jackpot... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • News

Kickstarting a Floating Island in Lake Michigan

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • News

Disrupting the Gaming Industry with the Same Old Playbook

Keywords: market development; disruptive innovation; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment
  • 10 Nov 2010
  • News

Leading a Football Juggernaut

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment
  • 06 Apr 2016
  • News

Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship

Koch first brewed the now-well known beer in his kitchen, long before the term “craft beer” was coined. In his entertaining new book, he shares 20-plus years of lessons learned since the first batch of beer—“the long arc of an... View Details
  • 2005
  • Chapter

Beyond 'Fun and Games': Outdoor Activities for Meaningful Leadership Development

Many managers and academics today view outdoor exercises as simply "fun and games." However, framed correctly, outdoor leadership activities provide a uniquely effective method for leadership development. They allow participants to access and explore the deeper... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Alignment
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Petriglieri, Gianpiero, and Jack D. Wood. "Beyond 'Fun and Games': Outdoor Activities for Meaningful Leadership Development." In Mastering Executive Education: How to Combine Content with Context and Emotion, edited by Paul J. Strebel and Tracy Keys, 252–266. London: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2005.
  • September 1992
  • Case

Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market

By: William A. Sahlman
First case in a series of six cases that follow the experience of a cable television company as it adjusts to the rapid rise and precipitous decline of the stock market in the late 1980s. In this case Don Jones, the company's founder and owner, sees the rise in public... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Financial Markets; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; SWOT Analysis; Wealth; Business Cycles; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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Sahlman, William A. "Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market." Harvard Business School Case 293-036, September 1992.
  • October 1991 (Revised November 1993)
  • Case

Play Time Toy Co.

By: Thomas R. Piper
The president of a toy company is considering the adoption of level production in a business characterized by highly seasonal sales. The issues include balancing the cost savings and the inventory risk, estimating the seasonal financing need, and determining the... View Details
Keywords: Production; Cost Management; Banks and Banking; Sales; Goods and Commodities; Financial Management; Risk Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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Piper, Thomas R. "Play Time Toy Co." Harvard Business School Case 292-003, October 1991. (Revised November 1993.)
  • May 1986
  • Case

Sunshine Toy Co., Software Case

By: Thomas R. Piper
Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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Piper, Thomas R. "Sunshine Toy Co., Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 286-088, May 1986.
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