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- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details
- 02 May 2018
- Blog Post
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
situation came to light when the negotiation leaked. (The dispute was apparently resolved when Wahlberg agreed to donate his $1.5 million to Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.) This Hollywood soap opera raises an interesting question. If the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Lin (MBA 1999) is the Hollywood producer behind the hit films Sherlock Holmes, Gangster Squad, and the Lego Movie. Lin’s most recent film, Lego Batman, opened last... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
Unlike Hollywood films, documentaries tend to portray sharks in their natural habitats, as in Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week,” an annual weeklong programming block of shark videos. But new research indicates that documentaries may also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
adopted home state of Montana, Siebel had spent around $30 million of his own money to “un-sell” the drug, hiring highly regarded Hollywood directors to create graphic, disturbing commercials depicting its harrowing physical and... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
quality and that only happens by iterating. If we lock in the story, we will be disappointed. I can't do it. I know it would save us pain, but Hollywood is littered with films that refused to change." By refusing to lock a story, Pixar... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
global standard. This was historically contingent on the unique circumstances prevailing at that time, but once the standard was in place, the marketing and branding strategies of firms helped to make it reinforcing. The momentum behind this standard was reinforced by... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Michael Wheeler illuminates the improvisational nature of negotiation, drawing on his own research and his work with Program on Negotiation colleagues. He explains how the best practices of diplomats such as George J. Mitchell, dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Sherry Lansing—Producing Social Change Sherry Lansing, head of a Hollywood studio, left to start a foundation. Describes the issues in her transition. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/308036 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
starting a computer dating service (almost before there were computers), selling and installing waterbeds, launching discotheques in drive-in movies, trying to invent a new kind of lasagna pan, producing a just-miss Hollywood movie, or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
probably win some guests over with your pet-friendly policy, too. People love their pets. When you’re friendly to their pets, it’s like being friendly to their kids. When we opened the Hotel Monaco in Portland, Oregon, we had searchlights and a red carpet — it was like... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
those paths would entail. There’s a failed Hollywood screenwriter, a washed-up NHL hockey player, and an under-accomplished woman who married the wrong man—all at the brink of life’s fragile breaking point. There’s a small-town braggart... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
9.88 in 1988 to 36. In January 2003 the stock price rose to 71.23. Reflecting on how they handled the crisis, Cronk said, "It was a common trust and of sharing the facts—openness we weren't sugarcoating anything, putting a Hollywood... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
stuff, Singer admits. “You never want it to end, because you’re convinced it’s never going to happen again.” That’s the ephemeral nature of the business, it seems. Everyone in Hollywood is in motion, working on a project or looking for... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) award, and (3) file for Chapter 11 in the same 30-day period? Well the design tools for visual effects incorporated more and more know-how, so plenty of people around the world could acquire the capability for doing the VFX work. The... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
example, those with a talented director or well-known actor) also receive more advertising. In this study, we use data on a movie's stock price as it trades on the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a popular online market simulation, to study the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
1920s, the company earned a huge notoriety for capturing the aesthetic and emotional dimension of the Art Deco movement in its design and gained a worldwide reputation for innovation and expertise in the realm of colored stones. Known as the designer for royalty and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
one assumes her Rolodex is as star-studded as a Hollywood blockbuster, but far more enduring in value. Globalization Looking over the last quarter-century, globalization is another powerful trend that has engaged the talents of the Class... View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
engagements have included Starbucks’ corporate headquarters, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Hollywood Commission on Sexual Harassment and Diversity chaired by Anita Hill. Dolly’s 2018 TED Talk was viewed more than 1.5... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
emphasizes the power of fate and serendipity in finding love. How do you respond to those who find your proactive approach too contrived? If there’s one pet peeve I have after 10 years in the love business, it’s people’s complete faith in fate. View Details