Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Disney's John Carter , which cost close to $275 million to produce, was tagged as a potentially huge, game-changing film. The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined.

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Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

” If you’ve seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, that one line probably conjures up memories of Oh yeah, chicka chicka, Ferraris, playing hooky, and dating in high school — all of which feature heavily in the hit coming-of-age film. This is how Blockbuster used to operate, at least when it came to mainstream domestic films.

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Content Film Strategy Incentives 13

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. To survive, it has stopped selling film cameras, focusing on the digital ones that dominate the market. Organizations such as IBM and GE have adapted over the years to remain competitive in the market.

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Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. This includes the German history of many small independent states (until 1918 Germany consisted of 23 monarchies and three republics), which forced entrepreneurs to internationalize early on in a company’s development if they wanted to keep growing.

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Class Drucker Globalization Film 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

An example of this integrative approach comes to us from Piers Handling, who runs the Toronto International Film Festival. When he took the helm, it was not even the #1 film festival in Canada. The presence of the stars and the announcement of a big award draw media attention to the films and make the industry happy.

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Examples Film Strategy Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

People understandably get excited about new digital technologies, whether it’s the digital camera that is cheaper than developing rolls upon rolls of film, or the photo-sharing apps that – in turn — make your iPhone camera easier to use than your old digital camera. Consider the Norwegian technology company Piql.

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Technology Industry Business Model Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. There are signs that market is forming: Marigold's arrival to U.S. There are signs that market is forming: Marigold's arrival to U.S.

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Outsourcing Film Hotels Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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Film Mentor Education Fashion 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S.

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Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

In today’s fast-changing, unpredictable environments, companies must simultaneously exploit existing profitable business models to run their core business and also explore new products, markets, and models to drive growth. of your market cap to about 25%—Pixar was about 10% of Disney. Stay the exploratory course.

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Film Merchandising Creativity Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

You can see this at work at Pixar, which was originally a technology company that began shooting short films to demonstrate the capabilities of its original product, animation software. Today, it is a leader in quantum computing — a market potentially worth billions — because it stuck with it. That’s the hard part.”

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 19, 2010

As Dorothy so wisely advises, we will write when *we* are ready Reply Wendy Mason December 20, 2010 at 2:22 pm Hi Gwyn – loved the film! For example, I’ve used my cat and my Mother to spark ideas about marketing. I didn’t know the film but it seems like it was a fun one!

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Blog Bottom-up Film Self-aware 41

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Before the announcement, the stock market capitalization to GDP ratio for Nigeria was 33%, compared to 270% for South Africa. Emerging market investors looking for upside potential in Africa will look at those numbers with interest. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%. Global business'

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GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

During Tootsie, walking in the shoes of a woman had such a profound impact on Dustin Hoffman that, 30 years later, recalling his decision to make the film brought tears to his eyes in an interview with the American Film Institute. Once you’ve started to develop empathy as a skill, you can make it integral to the work you do.

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Film Bureaucracy Influence Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, although some of our clients have been facing difficulties resulting from the current environment, primarily because of currency pressures, many others are continuing to see strong growth, even in troubled markets such as South Africa and Angola.

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GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Lead Change Blog

MAY 15, 2017

Social media is much more than an opportunity for smart marketing. Thanks to his status of a social media celebrity, he started getting roles in independent films. If you’re interested in movies and you have tons of awesome reviews to share, you will attract a community of cinema lovers. The Power of Social Media Leadership.

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Media Leadership Audience Content 219

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

During a recent analysts call, Apple's Tim Cook cited India's multi-layered distribution as the main reason for his company's small share of the market. That's true of TV and film as well as other consumer products. The same challenge applies to start-ups that market solar lamps in India.

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Venture Capitalist Early Adopters Entrepreneur Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Kodak did not end up losing the film business because one day nobody wanted film. Instead, they lost the market one customer at a time as people found alternatives in the form of digital photography. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams.

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Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

To foster a conversation about the potential implications of connected experiences for designers, technologists, and business people, Albert’s team at Microsoft recently released a short film documentary called “Connecting: Makers.”. Sometimes this is done creatively, as with the razor-and-blades model made famous by Gillette.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

and other developed markets? For American firms partnering with Chinese companies, access to new international markets, especially in China, is an obvious gain. Will Chinese production houses be able to close the knowledge gap and begin producing international blockbuster films of their own? In the U.S.,

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Automotive Long-term Operations Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

For it to be successfully implemented, your development project needs to be accepted into the operations side of the business. This hand-off is a time of high risk and often fails because general management, human resources, marketing, communications, and sales teams haven't been informed along the way. Don't under-communicate.

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Innovation Brand Project Storytelling 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The author’s Harvard Business Review articles are among the most highly read in the magazine’s history. Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

We expect the drone market to surge to nearly $7 billion by 2020 globally, driven by regulatory clarification, continuously decreasing component costs, and – most important– ongoing innovation that connects drone capabilities to big-data analytics.

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Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Despite these gloomy headlines, three developments in the sector give us hope that the revolution in clean energy production is far from dead: 1. Despite these developments, startups should be conscious of the path to an acquisition when they first take VC money and think about approaches to raise less dilutive equity capital.

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

To gain advantage on this leveled playing field, there’s one powerful branding tool that has been generally overlooked — or perhaps undervalued — by most marketers: sound. It was introduced with a film that drew the connection between the company’s heritage and its new position. Advertising Branding Marketing'

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Brand Advertising B2C B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

And, in a rapid development, it is taking on mobility, speech, and the earliest stages of independence and agency. Plus, he's excellent meme-material and this allows the brand to circulate in the social media world, to join the conversation that is the new marketing. Cast them in films and other events? Nothing happened to him.

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Brand Advertising Film Media 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

During this time Reebok and Nike were blood rivals and neck and neck for the number one position in the market. With the Freestyle, Reebok had identified a market that Nike had completely missed — women''s aerobics. We put a sign on the table, "Free T-shirts, One Per Customer," and retreated to a safe distance to film the result.

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Company Apparel Brand Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

This is more than just a smart marketing campaign. Lego’s Mindstorm robots (or education and innovation kits as they are sometimes known) were developed in collaboration with MIT Media Lab as a solution for education and training in the mid to late 90’s. It is an entirely goal-driven process. Education Human resources Technology'

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Education Human Resources Participative Training 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

The latter promptly announced plans to launch a third trilogy of Star Wars films in 2015, a move that will keep the brand alive and serve as a platform for selling products to a new generation of fans. The irony here is that the Star Wars franchise has been focused on licensing and new-platform development for years.

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Franchising Licensing Merchandising Film 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Film ratings. As a company that thrives when people consume more content, Netflix routinely serves up personalized recommendations to customers based on their feedback on films they've already viewed. Famously, five years ago, the company launched a competition to improve on the Cinematch algorithm it had developed over many years.

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Wireless Film Advertising Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

Kantar Worldpanel predicts that 75% of growth for consumer products companies in the next decade will come through new product development. So, companies end up developing a product that tested well in market research only to find out later that they''ve got a cannibal on their hands, chipping away at their existing market share.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Innovation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it). Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Remember the scene in the first Austin Powers film where Powers, attempting to escape in a steamroller, warns one of Dr. Evil''s henchman to move out of its path? Develop scenarios of how the world might look five or ten years from now. A decade ago Oracle developed a series of scenarios that anticipated massive industry consolidation.

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Industry Pharmaceuticals Disruptive Innovation Strategic Planning 8