Film Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 26

through its development bank (BNDES), we find a positive effect of those stakes on firms' return on assets and on the capital expenditures of financially constrained firms with investment opportunities. However, these positive effects are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

place for the brand in the emerging counterculture, developing a "slacker allegory." Holt also described the transformation of American ideology in the early '90s. The country idolized extraordinary athletes like Michael Jordan... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

Internet you can target the demographics of the segment you're looking for. And there are a variety of mechanisms for identifying them. Q: BMW Films has received a lot of praise. Is this a good example of broadband advertising? A: It's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Cavallo, Alberto, W. Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

settlement and formally apologizes on behalf of the British government, June 2013 Shortly thereafter, John Hart, the movie producer behind Boys Don’t Cry and Revolutionary Road, bought the rights to develop a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

self-control. We focus on children aged between 5 and 15 as the literature suggests that self-control develops within such age range. We ask each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (white or black) on a paper... View Details

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

set to become the highest grossing film ever in the U.S. and earn over $2 billion worldwide. Frozen had just surpassed $1 billion in box office to become Disney animation’s biggest success ever. In live action movies, Disney franchises,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

experts in the selection and development of early-stage ideas. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs are high. The Black List, an annual publication, ranks unproduced... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

November 2017
Teaching Note

Tencent

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426. Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details