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- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
places,” Yeomans says. Briefly explaining where the recommendations come from might also foster greater trust in them. Netflix and Amazon do this by telling users that because they chose a certain movie or product, they might be...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Self in Any Situation By Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) Hachette Go Founder of a global etiquette school and star of her own Netflix series Sara Jane Ho teaches readers how to thrive socially in a variety of situations, in person and online....
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- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
Whillans says. “Employers could offer workers a couple extra discretionary days where they can stay home just because they want to watch Netflix on a Friday. Companies should start looking at these ideas as a potential path to greater...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and author of the forthcoming book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments. Booking isn’t alone. Other companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix are...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
evaluating new opportunities, we should base our decisions on marginal costs and revenues. The book cites the fall of movie rental giant Blockbuster. Ten years ago, the company decided not to explore the market of then-upstart Netflix, because View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
and how investors can disagree so sharply on controversial companies ranging from Netflix to Uber to Tesla. Gerdeman: When a company has a lot of cash, a CEO can choose to grow the company organically—through expansion—or...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
alongside them,’ wrote Patty McCord, the company’s chief talent officer from 1998 to 2012. ‘Excellent colleagues trump everything else.’ Netflix hires ‘fully formed adults,’ self-sufficient people “who feel responsible for the company,...
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- Career Coach
Aaron Mitchell
and companies make unexpected connections to address challenges, broaden perspectives and redefine what prosperity means. He was recently the Director of HR for Netflix Animation, where he led HR for one of the largest and fastest growing...
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- 09 Nov 2021
- News
Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America
cash holdings “in financial institutions and organizations that directly support Black communities.” As part of that effort, Netflix deposited $10 million in Hope Credit Union, a Black-owned bank. The pledge also included a call to...
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- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Sir David Clementi Named BBC Chairman
for TV licences for over-75s. In news, the BBC has to innovate to meet the digital demands of a new generation of consumers. And in entertainment, where it has long been used to being the biggest beast in the jungle, there are new predators such as View Details
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Arts, Entertainment
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Boutique workouts brought to the busiest people, at home
challenges, she was inspired to build her first entrepreneurial venture, Booya Fitness. “Think of it as the Netflix for high-end fitness workouts,” says Kumar. Produced in 30-minute video segments, Booya makes it easy for even the busiest...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
chief talent officer at Netflix. You won’t find empty values statements on the walls of a Netflix conference room, not on McCord’s watch. As she helped to build Netflix into a media giant, McCord articulated...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- Portrait Project
Marilyn Wang
the years since, my fate was sealed, forever the bookworm, sidelined and unworthy of being the star of my own story. That changed May of 2016, the first time I saw myself. Watching comedian Ali Wong prance around the stage seven-and-a-half months pregnant in her View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
faces the world's fastest-growing economy. Purchase this case: https://hbr.org/product/china-s-environmental-challenge/315026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-015 Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A) In 2006, Reed Hastings,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2020
- News
Launching in a World in Limbo
the context. With potential customers largely confined to their homes, it will now go up against established platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video that can be watched on any screen, including the living room TV. Quibi works only...
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- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
models were established, how competitive forces have driven their evolution, and the importance of constantly evolving and tuning a firm's model. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/American-Airlines-in-2011/an/615009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-007...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
City Hall’s Headbanger
time in seven years, and companies including Facebook and Netflix are bringing much-needed investment and jobs to a metro region of just under one million people. But Keller, a former state senator and most recently state auditor, has an...
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Julia Hanna
- Web
Password Managers | Information Technology
This can save you if you've fallen prey to a well-crafted phishing email. 3: Sharing Credentials Many of us have passwords that we need to share with multiple people. This could be as simple as sharing your Netflix password with family...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
this as well, and eventually his list of do’s and don’ts came to comprise part of my inner compass, guiding my behavior to this day. As my research with innovative organizations has shown, allowing employees to exercise autonomy within clear guardrails can yield...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
agronomist researches the matter and sends a tailored reply within 24 hours. The more information a farmer shares with PAD—about planting practices, market prices, or soil conditions—the more its recommendations improve with time. “The vision is to become a View Details