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Using Analytics to Predict Hollywood Blockbusters

Harvard Business Review

The resulting spike in both supply and demand for movies has created fierce competition for financing. Analytics allow studios to go beyond simple focus groups or established financial modeling to determine how audiences might respond to a given film.

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Using Analytics to Predict Hollywood Blockbusters

Harvard Business Review

The resulting spike in both supply and demand for movies has created fierce competition for financing. Analytics allow studios to go beyond simple focus groups or established financial modeling to determine how audiences might respond to a given film.

Film 15
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Find the Reverse Leaders in Your Midst

Harvard Business Review

In my work with focus groups, interviews with leaders, and reviews of frontline employees' performance appraisals, I'm seeing more and more of these reverse leaders. Reverse leaders lead through influence, not authority, and they gain that influence by making strong interpersonal connections.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Women of color aspire to hold top leadership roles that allow them to lead with influence and purpose.