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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
blockbuster cost $40 million. At the time, many industry leaders considered that an outrageous sum but today, the average megapicture requires about $100 million. How are Hollywood studios coping with these rising costs? They are...
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Paula Maute
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
bottom-line results to one fixated on risk taking and creativity. Immelt is convinced that the company’s future lies in creating a culture that fosters blockbuster ideas and world-class marketing. “It’s a different era,” he explained to...
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- 09 Jun 2015
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media
consumers not only discuss and disseminate branded content, they also create it. Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was a Social Media Blockbuster Most companies should envy the financial and brand awareness brought about by the ALS Ice...
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- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
shelf?” When they dug deeper, Cohen and his colleagues found evidence that energy sector firms are making substantial investments in alternative energy projects. In particular, energy firms are significant global producers of electricity, harnessing their View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
Third, a subcommittee examined the structure and approach of the Club Officers’ Roundtable held at HBS each spring and recommended several changes, including a name change to Clubs Leadership Conference. The HBS Global Leadership Forum has built amazing momentum...
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Peter Cooper
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Action Plan: Come as You Are
stop of the blockbuster exhibition, Treasures of Tutankhamun, was at Washington, DC’s National Gallery of Art, where Basseches, then age 14, was dazzled by the gold statue of the boy king, the carved alabaster lions, and the elaborate...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
most innovative, successful biotech firm ever, Amgen led its industry in revenue and sales growth in 2007. Binder, the firm’s CEO during 1988–2000, describes Amgen’s climb to success, revealing the highs and lows in the race to develop View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
supplemental video content online to those visiting theaters as well as an opportunity to watch the same movie with friends and family later at home? Or building online/offline communities around local theaters in addition to competing with food courts and restaurants?...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
blockbusters may now be key ingredients for the impact we aim to have as leaders." —Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein (MBA/JD 2002, DBA 2013), Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment, by Anita...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, explains a powerful truth about the entertainment world: Building a business around blockbuster products—which are expensive to produce and market—is the surest path to long-term...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
more than one author; and that you need to mind the brand.” The case also highlights the spread of the blockbuster phenomenon. Ten years ago, a book was considered a success if it sold 200,000 copies. Today, the bar has been raised to 1.5...
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- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
"Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to publish a lot of books; that you need a production system with more than one author; and that you need to mind the brand." The case also highlights the spread of the View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
play out, the current wave of technologies will be subsumed by the next—just as Blockbuster was eaten by at-home DVDs, which were in turn devoured by on-demand video, Soares says. Platforms that license music like TikTok and Roblox will...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
professional spaces.” Bull’s-eye: “Turns out I’m a sharpshooter. In 2014 I went shooting for the first time and hit every single clay disk. The funny thing is, I haven’t gone since.” Blockbuster fun: “No one looks at me and thinks,...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
he made the decision to continue investing in longer-term research rather than short-term profit after Merck took its blockbuster drug Vioxx off the market in September 2004. "He believed that the only way for Merck to recover was to...
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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products-the movies, television shows, songs, and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market-is the surest path to long-term success. Along the way, I reveal why...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
responsibility (CSR) strategy. From interviewing scores of employees and executives, it was clear that storytelling was somewhere at the core of it all, she says. Take, for example, Marvel’s 2018 blockbuster Black Panther. The film was...
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Minal Mehta
away from making blockbuster bets. From a personal-experience standpoint, I really had to internalize that lesson to leave a steady job at Amazon and put all my weight behind launching a new and risky venture. To this day, my team and I...
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- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
companies, who were looking for blockbusters for large markets,” recalls Nate Boaz (MBA 2006), Prize4Life cofounder and board member, who is now managing director of talent strategy at Accenture in Atlanta. The meeting yielded more...
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Margie Kelley
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
watching Hollywood movies on the subject. In the blockbuster hit drama Gravity, for instance, an American space shuttle is clobbered by space debris. Sharing an inquiry from a current GMP student, Gupta asked Virts whether space debris is...
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