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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
stimulative enough—and they were worried about their reelection prospects. Now you've got a world capital market that is acutely sensitive about what the Fed does. One thing underreported in the media is that when the Fed flooded the US... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
industry and how this new and unfamiliar industry was established among Indian consumers as a legitimate market category. Through extensive field... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
David L. Geffen
Four years before owning his record label outright, Geffen structured a deal with Warner Communications to provide distribution services and financial underwriting. Geffen was extremely adept at spotting and... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Louis B. Mayer
Mayer, known as the unchallenged “czar of Hollywood” for over a quarter of century, created one of the largest motion pictures companies in the world. After acquiring control over the largest chain of theatres in New England and creating... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Joseph M. Segel
A prolific entrepreneur, Segel has founded many successful companies including The Franklin Mint and National Software testing Laboratories. His biggest success was the formation of QVC, which stands for quality, value View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Nicholas M. Schenck
When Marcus Loew died in 1927, Schenck assumed control over all of his holdings, including Loew’s theatre company and its production arm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Despite the onslaught of the Depression, though, Schenck’s attention to... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 09 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet The HBS Sound Society
students’ experience at HBS through music eventually morphed into exposing students to many more facets of the music “industry.” With media and entertainment becoming more and... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
Marcus Loew
Hollywood production facilities and nationwide chain of Loew’s theaters, MGM controlled its movies throughout their entire life cycle. He was one of the first producers to recognize the power of movie stars, View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Gordy’s Motown Records became the most successful African-American enterprise of its time with sales in the early 1970s of $50 million. Gordy’s first gold record came just one year after the founding of Motown - Smokey Robinson and the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
of big money in the world of sports seems to have aggravated public disenchantment with many aspects of the professional game, from high ticket prices to athletes' personal behavior. That does not bode well long term for an industry that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
This memo discusses "hard-core" antitrust violations, focusing on bid rigging and market allocation, under the laws of the U.S. and other leading antitrust regimes. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity and reliance on external... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
personal relationships and pattern matching. “We’re already seeing the current economic changes impacting women disproportionately as some women have to drop out of the labor force to look after children. It’s important that we not only... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
the basic communications infrastructure) and it allows for a whole range of media to be combined in exciting and innovative ways. But I still don't think that gives it any... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- May 2001 (Revised June 2001)
- Teaching Note
Reuters Greenhouse Fund TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-012). View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Fashion’s Transparent Translator
In 2007, Imran Amed (MBA 2002) started blogging about an industry that fascinated him: fashion. A former McKinsey consultant, the Canadian noticed the suits and creatives of the business didn’t always... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
management, specialization of financial intermediation, and marketing methods. The contributors—leaders in business, government, academia, and the nonprofit sector—discuss new research View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
discriminate, and that piracy may even result in higher profits to Microsoft! Finally, the paper investigates the societal welfare consequences of OSS availability by comparing different industry structures... View Details