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Blockbusters: Why Big Hits – and Big Risks – are the Future of the Entertainment Business

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Description for Blockbusters: Why Big Hits – and Big Risks – are the Future of the Entertainment Business Paperback. What is behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros, Marvel Enterprises and Manchester United - along with such stars as Jay-Z and Lady Gaga? In this book, the author explains a powerful truth about the world of entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products is the surest path to long-term success. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: KJS; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 29. Weight in Grams: 346.

What is behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Enterprises and Manchester United - along with such stars as Jay-Z and Lady Gaga? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals?

Anita Elberse, Harvard Business School's expert on the entertainment industry, has done pioneering research on the worlds of media and sports for more than a decade. Now, in this groundbreaking book, she explains a powerful truth about the fiercely competitive world of 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, she reveals why entertainment executives often spend outrageous amounts of money in search of the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape.

Full of inside stories emerging from her unprecedented access to some of the world's most successful entertainment brands, Blockbusters is destined to become required reading for anyone seeking to understand how the entertainment industry really works - and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large.

'Convincing . . . Elberse's Blockbusters builds on her already impressive academic résumé to create an accessible and entertaining book.' Financial Times

Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571309221
SKU
V9780571309221
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About Anita Elberse
Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, is one of the youngest female professors to be awarded tenure in the school's history. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Variety, and Fortune, and her first book, Blockbusters, was one of Amazon's 2013 Best Books of the Year. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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