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12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

co-chaired the conference and co-edited the book, with the idea of capturing as much as possible of the excellent thinking that came out during this event. By "broadband explosion" we mean the coming together of real-time communication and rich View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
Supplement

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu

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July 15, 2022
Article

Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?

By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic

Does Elon Musk have a strategy? Or is he just out there winging it? Looking at Musk’s many companies, common themes stand out across three areas: what fits into his vision for problems to solve, how he designs an organization as a solution to those problems, and why he... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Strategy; Vision; Resources; Organization; Platform; Closed Systems; Leadership; Complexity; Organizational Design; Vertical Integration; Problems and Challenges; Success; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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12 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

terrific working relationship makes the story really unique.” Elberse hopes that the case study will help students understand what it takes for stars like Johnson to build a successful media business that cuts across film, television, and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Anita Elberse; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation

03 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207077 Framedia Harvard Business School Case 207-057 Examines an acquisition in the highly competitive new media advertising industry in China in late 2005. The transaction... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

supposed to be doing,” explains Chiefs Reporter, BJ Kissel. Speed of information processing, physical skills, and the need to deal with the media are other skills required by the modern QB. The QB job is also made more difficult as teams... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

from the Negotiations That Wrested the NFL from CBS By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—A remarkable 1993 negotiation rocked the world of American football with aftershocks that have directly shaped today’s entertainment and media landscapes... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

Kristen Senz is a social media editor and writer for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading Working Paper: Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services What... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

successors. The divide among partners has played out in the media in recent years. For example, Weston Presidio reportedly suspended its fund-raising in 2014 after a group of partners left the company to start a new investment firm.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

Sites from Becoming White Elephants This fieldwork-based research and analysis of stadium use at 10 of the last 12 Summer Olympics sites highlights eight factors for better sustainability. Research by Isao Okada and Stephen A. Greyser. Biggest trenders on social View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

Education program called Managing Breakthroughs—From Science to Enterprise. "Wall Street has conventional and not always accurate measures of a company's value." Take Bank of America, which just renewed a $25 million, five-year collaboration with the MIT... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay... View Details

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

Could Lose $100 Million On London Olympics; Ratings Not Expected To Beat Beijing," chimed in John Clarke with Forbes. Sandomir and Clarke were not alone in their damning prediction. Analysts and media put forth similar commentary... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

A few years ago, a food blog reported that Starbucks’ popular Strawberry and Crème Frappuccino got its pink color not from strawberries, but from a dye made of crushed-up cochineal insects. Vegan consumers cried foul, and mainstream media... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

good news on corruption is that private citizens are coming forward as never before to expose corrupt practices—posting evidence of bribes paid through web-based platforms such as RosPil in Russia and I Paid a Bribe in India. "It's harder to conceal when you have cell... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

naturally become increasingly concerned that they attract, leverage, and retain the best knowledge workers. In addition, our culture is very enamored of stars and with the idea that extraordinary talent accounts for individuals' extraordinary performance. The business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

cable channels were aimed at ardent fans who wanted live, beginning-to-end, daytime coverage, from cross-country ski races to early rounds of the hockey tournament. And then there were the real fanatic fans and new media aficionados who... View Details

Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

March 2024
Case

Katharine Graham: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case traces the life of Katharine Graham from housewife to publisher of the Washington Post. Born into a family of wealth, Graham described herself as a “doormat wife” after she married Phil Graham and stayed at home to raise their children. His unexpected death... View Details