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  • 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008

sign superstar Japanese pitcher Daisuke (Dice-K) Matsuzaka within the context of the team's attempts to keep pace with longtime rival, the New York Yankees. In late 2006, Dice-K is viewed as the prize of the free agent pitching market.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

company's desire to preserve its partner's control over decision rights. Why did Hong Kong deny Alibaba's requests to list dual-class shares or to allow its partners to nominate a majority of the board of directors and, in the process, turn away a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

of the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums, and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape. Full of inside stories about some of the world's most successful entertainment brands,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809089 LeBron James Harvard Business School Case 509-050 In 2005, to the astonishment of many sports industry insiders, superstar basketball player LeBron James fired his... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

2014 became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, which is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in mathematics. These superstar worries are real, and there are many more one-in-a-thousand talents that could be missed too. But the real... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

cooking to hip-hop, and hasn’t been able to perfect either. Even her cartwheels are subpar. But when the castle hosts a superstar for a special event, Princess Charming finally finds her time to shine. Princess Charming is about a... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

negatively to an increase in the number of superstars than non-superstars. We also find that the most negative reactions come from a particular subgroup of competitors: those that are highly skilled, but whose abilities put them near to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2017
  • News

How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

league that started failed miserably, because they couldn't control salaries. And when some superstars develop, they ask for a lot of money. Things start to collapse. Well, the WNBA has a system where for first four years, from the time... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

large bets on superstar DJs-work in a very different market? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/search_results.seam?Ntt=515702 Harvard Business School Case 215-008 Thomas Cook Group on the Brink Harriett Green, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2017
  • News

The Business of Lego Batman

professional growth? An artist may start out as an artist. Then do I promote them and properly train them to be head of story? The next position could be to become co-director and eventually to the director of a movie. So in the case of The Lego Movie, Chris McKay was... View Details
Keywords: LEGO; Lego
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

the immediate removal of superstar artist Taylor Swift's entire catalogue from Spotify's music streaming service. Is it time for Spotify to reconsider the policies that seem to have prompted Swift's catalogue takedown—and specifically the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

co-headlining arena tour with hip-hop superstar Kanye West has been cancelled. Carter knows that continuing the tour, but doing so solo, comes with huge risks, but scaling it back to smaller theaters or postponing the tour altogether has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2017
  • News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

people that are just superstars in everything that they do and other people are not. And the thing that I feel the proudest about is that it's really about helping anyone, whether they are-- whatever they think they may be good at and... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

endeavor that is a first for a Hollywood actor with superstar status—a digital channel. The channel (named “Seven Bucks Digital Studios”) will be a new part of film and television production company Seven Bucks Productions, which Johnson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-026 Shonda Rhimes' ShondaLand In January 2015, superstar television creator Shonda Rhimes, whose production company ShondaLand dominates American... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

of Uncommon Service is that to achieve service excellence, you may need to make some tradeoffs. Is that a hard sell for some managers who are motivated to excel in all areas? A: Frei: Even superstar managers would probably admit to being... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

boxes on the way to promotion. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/418031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-042 LeBron James: Building a Hollywood Empire It is June 2016. Superstar basketball player LeBron... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

will in fact homogenize consumption patterns, and a few superstar products will emerge as winners in the market place. In this study, using two large customer transactions data sets obtained from an online music service and an online DVD... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace