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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
baseball’s future is fan-friendly. Mariner is part of a Commissioner’s task force charged with studying “how the next generation wants to be entertained and informed about the game.” With fans already taking... View Details
- January 1994 (Revised July 2000)
- Exercise
Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds--Duration Analysis
Walt Disney Co. issues a 100-year bond. This case describes the terms of the bond and immediate capital market reaction. View Details
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds--Duration Analysis." Harvard Business School Exercise 294-038, January 1994. (Revised July 2000.)
John W. Kluge
Kluge built a $1 billion+ entertainment conglomerate, Metromedia, one of the largest privately held companies in the United States. It has businesses in the telecommunications, media, and information... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Michael D. Eisner
Eisner headed the second-largest media and entertainment company in the U.S. having grown its market value from $3 billion to approximately $70 billion in his first 14 years as CEO. Eisner has released... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
deftly weaves in rich storylines from her experience as a psychotherapist—not just to entertain or teach us about others but to beautifully and subtly teach us even more about ourselves.” —Dr. Darria Long... View Details
Robert C. Guccione
During the height of the sixties sexual revolution, Guccione provided the most significant challenge to the dominance of Playboy in the men’s leisure magazine sector. Opting for more explicit photographs and... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- March 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Choosing the Right Esports Business Model
By: David Collis and Alexander MacKay
Two esports entrepreneurs must choose on which business model to focus their time and money. After successfully launching an online esports coaching platform, a number of new opportunities emerge in the rapidly growing esports space that now has close to one billion... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Business Development; Esports; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Management; Strategy; Sports; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia
Collis, David, and Alexander MacKay. "Choosing the Right Esports Business Model." Harvard Business School Case 719-459, March 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Blackstone Group had conducted a roll-up of theme parks and attractions business in Europe. It was considering how to generate liquidity for its investors. Blackstone entered the theme parks and attractions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
summer. Discovering Fitness No level of excitement for the job could have prepared me for working 60-70 hours/week and operating in the 4th decimal place. In time, I realized I needed an outlet, and it came... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
September 2007, that strategy was due for a major test. TiVo was a maker of digital video recorder (DVR) products and a distributor of DVR technology. Rogers believed that macro-trends in the home View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 2006
- Article
What Negotiators Can Learn from Improv Comedy
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Lakshmi Balachandra
Wheeler, Michael A., and Lakshmi Balachandra. "What Negotiators Can Learn from Improv Comedy." Negotiation 9, no. 8 (August 2006): 1–3.
- 20 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
AVICII: REFLECTIONS ON MANAGING THE BRAND OF A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR
goals, and values related to our lives and careers post business school. One of my ten photos was of a young Swedish DJ named Avicii and his manager Ash Pournouri. For me this... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- February 1982 (Revised December 1991)
- Teaching Note
Quabbin Cablevision Co., Teaching Note
By: Henry B. Reiling
Teaching Note for (9-282-003). View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
media," said Keith Clinkscales (HBS MBA '90). As an undergraduate at Florida A&M, Clinkscales said he was exposed to the power of the urban entertainment culture and wanted to start a business that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
He’s Back
Wesleyan, he returned three punts for touchdowns and led the NCAA’s Division III in average punt-return yards his senior year), Robinson returns to his former stomping grounds at a busy time. Several big projects are in progress: a $2... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 04 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Learning Effects of Monitoring
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Crazy Days of Summer
Foy: Performing a perfect 10 leisure dive. As winter’s icy winds make the walk across the Weeks Footbridge feel like a trek to the Arctic Circle, hot sunny days can seem a distant memory. But summer will return to the Charles River View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
fruition, only to turn into disaster two years later." As for President Clinton, Tumulty will long remember a leisurely off-the-record dinner with Clinton and several other journalists only a few months... View Details