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  • 18 Apr 2014
  • News

Making “Freemium” Work

  • 29 Sep 2020
  • News

Do debates matter? Do they change minds about elections? Here’s what the data say

  • July 2004 (Revised July 2005)
  • Case

Activision: The 'Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer' Project

By: Alan D. MacCormack, Enrico D"Angelo and Kerry Herman
Mike Ward, the producer in charge of developing the Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer game for Activision, must decide whether to launch the game in time for the 2002 Christmas season. Complicating his decision are the lukewarm response from consumers to TV test spots of the... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Product Development; Customer Satisfaction; Projects; Business or Company Management; Product Launch; Marketing Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Industry Structures; Innovation Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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MacCormack, Alan D., Enrico D"Angelo, and Kerry Herman. "Activision: The 'Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer' Project." Harvard Business School Case 605-020, July 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
  • September 1994 (Revised May 1995)
  • Case

Time Life, Inc. (A)

By: David A. Garvin and Jonathan West
Time Life has historically been a continuity book publisher, selling 20-volume book series via direct mail. Now, however, music and video/TV divisions have been added, and the CEO is trying to craft a strategy that will align the divisions so they can produce... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Business Divisions; Horizontal Integration; Production; Creativity; Alignment; Advertising; Publishing Industry
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Garvin, David A., and Jonathan West. "Time Life, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 395-012, September 1994. (Revised May 1995.)
  • September 1995 (Revised April 1999)
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Exporting American Culture

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
A large entertainment company, extensively criticized for producing violent, offensive, and anti-social material, is considering whether to sell its material to a semi-illegal operation that is beaming satellite TV into Turkey. The opportunity raises many questions... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Media; Business and Community Relations; Opportunities; Social Issues; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Jerry Useem. "Exporting American Culture." Harvard Business School Case 396-055, September 1995. (Revised April 1999.)
  • September 2020 (Revised May 2021)
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The Indian Premier League, 2020

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
Since its founding in 2008, the Indian Premier League (IPL), India’s eight-week Twenty20 (T20) cricket competition, had become one of the most popular and lucrative sporting leagues in the world. In 2019, the IPL attracted 462 million TV viewers and 300 million digital... View Details
Keywords: Sports; Organizational Structure; Marketing; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Sports Industry; India
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Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "The Indian Premier League, 2020." Harvard Business School Case 721-362, September 2020. (Revised May 2021.)
  • February 2013
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YouTube Channels

By: Sunil Gupta and Dharmishta Rood
In December 2011 YouTube launched a website redesign that made Channels the central focus of the site. This redesign was the company's first foray into a strategy designed to foster long-form user engagement. YouTube invested $100 million in 100 Channels, often created... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Internet and the Web; Entertainment; Growth and Development Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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Gupta, Sunil, and Dharmishta Rood. "YouTube Channels." Harvard Business School Case 513-078, February 2013.
  • July 2020
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Sesame Workshop (C): Mission Critical Responses to Global and National Crises

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Beginning in March 2020, Sesame Workshop navigated a global pandemic and racial justice crisis, which caused unemployment, business shutdowns, school closures, and remote work. The CEO and team responded with new partnership using its assets and reinforcing its... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Social Issues; Crisis Management; Global Range; Mission and Purpose; Education; Education Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Joyce J. Kim. "Sesame Workshop (C): Mission Critical Responses to Global and National Crises." Harvard Business School Case 321-016, July 2020.
  • October 2007 (Revised December 2007)
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TiVo 2007: DVRs and Beyond

By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo, had placed multiple strategic bets on his company. In 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... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Business Model; Television Entertainment; Intellectual Property; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Distribution; Problems and Challenges; Partners and Partnerships; Research; Internet; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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Yoffie, David B., and Michael Slind. "TiVo 2007: DVRs and Beyond." Harvard Business School Case 708-401, October 2007. (Revised December 2007.)
  • 06 Feb 2011
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Why Some Twitter Posts Catch On, and Some Don't

    Deepak Malhotra

    Deepak Malhotra's teaching, research and advisory work is focused on negotiation, deal-making and conflict resolution. In 2020, Deepak was named MBA Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants. He has won... View Details

    • 19 May 2015
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    The Must-Have Effect: When an Upgrade is Available, People Tend to Break What They'd Like to Replace

    • 2013
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    Optimizing the Amount of Entertainment in Advertising: What's So Funny about Tracking Reactions to Humor?

    By: Thales S. Teixeira and Horst Stipp
    Humor and other entertaining content, as opposed to demonstrations of product features and "selling," are increasingly used in advertising, such as TV commercials, to attract and keep consumers' attention. This study uses facial tracking to explore how marketers can... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising Content; Entertainment; Face Perception; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Television Entertainment; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Teixeira, Thales S., and Horst Stipp. "Optimizing the Amount of Entertainment in Advertising: What's So Funny about Tracking Reactions to Humor?" Journal of Advertising Research 53, no. 3 (September 2013): 286–296.
    • September 2014 (Revised March 2015)
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    Managing Multi-Media Audiences at WHDH (Boston)

    By: Thales Teixeira and V. Kasturi Rangan
    WHDH's Channel 7 News rose to the #1 position in Boston-area news broadcasting through its embrace of an innovative format and for affiliating with NBC. Since the early 2000s, however, other news programs had copied their format, and young audiences had begun to use... View Details
    Keywords: Online News; Television Advertising; Attention Economics; Cross-media Efforts; Competition; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Marketing; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Boston
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    Teixeira, Thales, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Managing Multi-Media Audiences at WHDH (Boston)." Harvard Business School Case 515-037, September 2014. (Revised March 2015.)
    • January 2014 (Revised February 2015)
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    YouTube for Brands

    By: Thales Teixeira and Leora Kornfeld
    This case examines the changes employed by YouTube to make the massively popular site more attractive to brands. Building from its base of amateur, user-generated content, YouTube had turned to experimenting with professionally-made content and organizing its videos... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Internet and the Web; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Marketing; Brands and Branding; Advertising Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    Teixeira, Thales, and Leora Kornfeld. "YouTube for Brands." Harvard Business School Case 514-048, January 2014. (Revised February 2015.)
    • 16 Oct 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Minjae Song, University of Rochester

    • April 1995 (Revised July 1997)
    • Case

    General Instrument (A)

    A manufacturer of cable TV transmission equipment is faced with redesigning its network of international plants that make set-top converters and decoders. One possibility is to have each plant dedicated to manufacturing and engineering support for different product... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Manufacturing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    Gray, Ann E., and James A. Costantini. "General Instrument (A)." Harvard Business School Case 695-056, April 1995. (Revised July 1997.)
    • April 1990 (Revised January 1993)
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    Ad Council's AIDS Campaign (A): Advertising Strategy

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Janet Montgomery
    Ad Council wished to run an educational campaign aimed at preventing the spread of AIDS. They were challenged to find acceptable ways to address this very sensitive subject matter--ways that the media and the public would approve. One of the big challenges was to make... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Goals and Objectives; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Success; Problems and Challenges; Social Issues; Health Industry
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    Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Janet Montgomery. "Ad Council's AIDS Campaign (A): Advertising Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 590-105, April 1990. (Revised January 1993.)
    • 27 Apr 2022
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    Healthy (and Unhealthy) Coping Strategies for Anxious Times

    • 26 Sep 2017
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    The Industry That Treats Its Customers Worse Than Any Other

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