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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga What goes into creating the world’s largest pop star? Before her fame hit, Lady Gaga’s manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer’s career. A new case by Associate Professor Anita Elberse examines the strategic View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
professional esports players and amateur gamers streaming video game play. By year’s end, market analyst Newzoo forecasts, the online global esports audience will reach 385 million people with revenues of nearly $700 million. But if all...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
attractive outfit walked across the screen carrying a sign that pitched a product. These almost literal translations of billboard and magazine ads did little more than set the previous forms in motion. HBS professor emeritus Alvin J. Silk is a View Details
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Susan Young
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
"I'll take that bet." Despite having come off a solid win as chief marketing officer of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee, Amy Aronoff Blumkin (MBA 1988), isn't talking about football. She's recounting what she told her boss at AT&T...
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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-473.
In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and...
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Facebook;
Fake News;
Mark Zuckerberg;
Donald Trump;
Algorithms;
Social Networking;
Social Networks;
Partisanship;
Social Media;
App Development;
Instagram;
WhatsApp;
Smartphone;
Silicon Valley;
Office Space;
Digital Strategy;
Democracy;
Entry Barriers;
Online Platforms;
Controversy;
Tencent;
Agility;
Gaming;
Gaming Industry;
Computer Games;
Mobile Gaming;
Messaging;
Monetization Strategy;
Advertising;
Digital Marketing;
Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Headquarters;
Business Organization;
For-Profit Firms;
Trends;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
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Sunnyvale;
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- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
was ranked number one in guest satisfaction for 2009 by the Market Metrix Hospitality Index (based on over 130,000 hotel customer surveys), beating competitors including the Ritz-Carlton, W Hotels, and the Four Seasons. Michael Depatie...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
passenger can create his own climate zone. We customize our music and then implant the made-to-order entertainment directly into our ears. And what bigger marketing success have we seen in the past...
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Government
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Participants enjoyed sessions on topics that ranged from biotechnology to media and entertainment to social enterprise. A panel of six entrepreneurs, moderated by HBS professor Lynda M. Applegate, discussed their experiences in light of...
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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
platforms may coexist without the market tipping. Our model helps explain why platforms with different business models coexist in markets, including online dating, housing, and labor markets. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2018
- Supplement
Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)
By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu
On November 7, 2017, Sidar Şahin, founder and CEO of Peak Games, a Turkey-based global mobile gaming company, had just closed the sale of Peak Games’ card games studio. This sale included three of the company’s top grossing games and half of its team. Sahin was happy...
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Games;
Gaming;
Acquisitions;
Exits;
Private Sector;
Decision;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Emerging Markets;
Acquisition;
Entrepreneurship;
For-Profit Firms;
Business Model;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Decision Making;
Value Creation;
Leading Change;
Management Teams;
Technology Industry;
Turkey
Kerr, William R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-084, January 2018.
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
also call it an audaciously big bet on an unproven format in an ever-crowded market of streaming content. With an April 6, 2020, launch, Whitman and Katzenberg have 20 months and $1 billion to build the whole thing from scratch—from a...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990)
highlight: Watching chairman Sean Combs launch the network from the front stoop of the late Notorious B.I.G.’s home on St. James Place in Brooklyn. Five words on Sean Combs: Incredibly market savvy, beautifully unreasonable. On...
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- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza
talents within the business world, Mendoza joined the HBS A cappella group, Heard on the Street, and the HBS Sound Society, a spinoff of the Entertainment Media Club focused on the music industry, which gave her more opportunities to...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
in a culture where it's very difficult for people to tell other people what to do. It's not the usual supervisory manager-submanager structure found in the United States." Before coming to Turtle Island, Evanson was involved in the emerging View Details
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
1990D Stephanie Fierman, Marketing Mojo, http://www.stephaniefierman.com/ (a “doubleshot of information and entertainment from the world of marketing”; archived since Sept. 2007) MBA 1990F Adam Bernard,...
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- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
blood and hustle might come crashing down was a nontrivial possibility. But so was an increase in revenue that would elevate the company to a whole new league of wealth and market share. Founder and CEO Dal LaMagna chafed at the potential...
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- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-019.pdf Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus, and George Serafeim An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Martha Tassinari
development, from self-assessment to networking to negotiation to professional development, with a particular focus on marketing oneself effectively (resume, LinkedIn, bio, pitch and interviewing) and navigating the network-based search....
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