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- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shot to death in a police car in 1941 because he laughed while standing in line at a movie theatre with his girlfriend. Or how about the hate that led to Timothy Hood’s, murder in the back of a police car? He was a World War II veteran...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
long term, financial and otherwise—than is readily apparent. All of us can get carried away with a seemingly good idea taken to excess. Everyone knows the famous movie line, when Gordon Gekko told us that “greed is good.” Do any of us...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
the 1930s, for example, per-person movie ticket sales were seven times higher than at the end of the 1990s. Fox Photos/Getty Images In the sweep of U.S. history, consumption had been a force for great change. Much of this change played...
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- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Erasing Racism Louis (Lou) Gossett Jr.’s exemplary life included a groundbreaking career in entertainment and a bold and audacious goal to erase racism. From the Broadway stage to television and the movie screen, Gossett earned major...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Business School Case 610-036 Examines the process used by a major motion picture studio to develop and select movie projects. Warner Bros.' strategy is to focus its efforts on a small number of major "event" films (i.e., films...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
order when should DVDs are rented before want DVDs. Specifically, a 1.3% increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline rate of 12%) ensues if the first of two sequentially rented movies has more should and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“The fire is at this end. Why flood the room?” That’s what Sony Pictures did. When hackers broke into the movie studio’s network in 2014—inflicting a reported $35 million in IT damages—administrators at Sony just shut the whole network...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
a massage, a dinner with a friend, whatever. And she's watching both kids while I go out for something similar. Honestly, I'm an awesome dad the day before I have my NNO and the day after because I'm like energized by just even going to a View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
be able to help,” Walsh said. It’s not quite what is portrayed in movies such as Iron Man, where ordinary people are given superhuman strength. “From an engineering point of view, this is extremely hard Soft wearable robots don’t give...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317097-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-100 Raj Kapoor: The Socialist Showman This case examines the career of Raj Kapoor, the legendary Bollywood filmmaker of the postwar decades. It explores how Kapoor built RK studios...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
presence to Jay.” The Rally Fighter, pictured above, is Local Motors’ most well-known vehicle, with appearances in the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction and the racing video game Forza Horizon 2. Local Motors launched on March 25,...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
theatrical exhibition chain in the United States, many people in the U.S. were mystified. Unlike China where theatrical exhibition was experiencing rapid growth, the U.S. market was viewed as mature, and rapidly changing technology was giving consumers a widening range...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
the family’s flagship Glencoe Mills. Green’s genial manner and deep southern roots invited frequent comparisons to the character of Ashley Wilkes from the acclaimed 1930s book and movie Gone with the Wind. But Wilkes was a stereotypical,...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
college campuses and other venues concerned with shootings? Should SST adapt the hardware and the software for indoor applications, like shopping malls and movie theaters? Was the next step in the company’s growth a move towards citywide...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
provide a home movie service that would do a better job satisfying customers than the traditional retail rental model. But as it encouraged challenges it underwent several major strategy shifts, ultimately developing a business model and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
"the virtual movie studio" by Gordon Radley, president of Lucasfilm. In the Real World Once the speeches, panel discussions, and video displays had concluded, conference participants took to the field on March 22 for a day of company...
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Daniel Penrice
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
outbreak, most public figures in South Korea, including its politicians, business and religious leaders, and even movie stars, have, for the most part, worn face masks in public. Imposing a fine for noncompliance will likely change...
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- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
artist's concert tour and faces a new set of challenges regarding the launch of Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way. Is a huge, expensive launch akin to that of a "tent-pole" movie the best way to capitalize on Gaga's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
innovative approach to identifying potential hit movie scripts via crowdsourcing. As the annual Black List proved to hold the scripts of some of Hollywood’s most successful films, from “Slumdog Millionaire” to “Spotlight,” it became...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
competitive strategy? Renowned for the cutting-edge websites that it developed to market major Hollywood movies and leading consumer brands, the firm had won numerous awards and garnered considerable attention within the advertising...
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Martha Lagace