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- June 2023
- Teaching Note
Oriental Land Co., Ltd. — Tokyo Disney Resort
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Akiko Kanno
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-460.
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- December 2022
- Teaching Note
The Walt Disney Company Streaming Services
By: Robert J. Dolan
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 523-034 and 523-048.
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- December 2022
- Supplement
The Walt Disney Company Streaming Services (B): Expanding The Product Line
By: Robert J. Dolan
- September 2022 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
The Walt Disney Company Streaming Services
By: Robert J. Dolan
- May 2022
- Case
Third Point in 2020: Growth Is Where the Value Is?
By: Robin Greenwood, James Williams and Denise Han
In early May 2020, Daniel Loeb’s team at Third Point was evaluating a potential growth opportunity in the Walt Disney Company and whether investor activism might play a role. Battered by the effects of COVID-19, the company’s stock had initially tumbled to $86 and then...
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- May 2022
- Supplement
Third Point in 2020: Growth Is Where the Value Is? (B)
By: Robin Greenwood and Denise Han
In early May 2020, Daniel Loeb’s team at Third Point was evaluating a potential growth opportunity in the Walt Disney Company and whether investor activism might play a role. Battered by the effects of COVID-19, the company’s stock had initially tumbled to $86 and then...
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- February 2022 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Ample Hills Creamery
By: Tom Eisenmann, Lindsay N. Hyde and Tom Quinn
Ample Hills Creamery started in 2010 as a temporary ice cream pushcart in Brooklyn, New York City. On the strength of inventive flavors and clever marketing, husband-and-wife founders Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna built a premium, artisanal dessert empire of 16 retail...
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- October 2021
- Case
(180) Days of Quibi
By: David J. Collis and Terrence Shu
Mobile streaming app Quibi was ready to take the entertainment world by storm at its April 2020 launch. Backed by $1.75 billion, influential investors from Hollywood to Wall Street eagerly anticipated early success for this brainchild of Meg Whitman, former CEO of...
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- February 2021 (Revised June 2022)
- Case
Walt Disney: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case describes the rise of Walt Disney, founder of the worldwide entertainment company. The case describes how Disney, as a young artist, created memorable figures such as Mickey Mouse and went on to produce Academy-award-winning films and build the world’s most...
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- February 2021 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
Shareholder Activists and Corporate Strategy
By: David J. Collis and Caeden Brynie
This library case examines the rise of shareholder activism in recent years, particularly in the public eye, and analyzes its effects on corporate strategy, growth, and shareholder value. It looks at three contemporary targets of shareholder activism in particular—Bed...
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- October 2020 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
The Walt Disney Company: The 21st Century Fox Acquisition and Digital Distribution
By: David J. Collis
This case describes the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by the Walt Disney Company and the subsequent launch by Disney of three streaming channels to compete with Netflix.
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- May 2020
- Teaching Note
The Video-Streaming Wars in 2019: Can Disney Catch Netflix?
By: Anita Elberse
- April 2020 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
Oriental Land Co., Ltd.—Tokyo Disney Resort
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Akiko Kanno
This case describes the history of Oriental Land Co. Ltd.’s (OLC's) Tokyo Disney Resort (TDR), its operations, the extent of vertical integration, and the challenges it faced in 2018 as OLC's chairman and CEO, Toshio Kagami, contemplated how best to deal with...
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Keywords:
Strategy For Multi-business Firm;
Business Models;
Growth;
Theme Parks;
Disney;
Disney Parks;
Licensing;
Royalties;
Two-part Tariffs;
Oriental Land Co.;
Tokyo Disneyland;
Tokyo DisneySea;
Tokyo Disney Resort;
Tokyo Disney;
Growth Strategy;
Hotels;
Hotel Industry;
Partnership;
Development;
Attractions;
Rides;
Urayasu;
Kagami;
Congestion;
Pricing;
Amusement Parks;
Amusement Park Industry;
Brand;
Branding;
History;
OLC;
Corporate Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Business History;
Price;
Retention;
Growth and Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Contracts;
Operations;
Vertical Integration;
Problems and Challenges;
Partners and Partnerships;
Business Strategy;
Expansion;
Rail Transportation;
Transportation Networks;
Accommodations Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Asia;
Japan;
Tokyo;
United States
- March 2020
- Case
Hotstar
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Kairavi Dey
Hotstar was an online video streaming platform owned by Star India Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Walt Disney Corporation. Since its launch in 2015, the platform had grown to offer over 100,000 hours of TV content, movies in nine Indian languages...
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- March 2020
- Teaching Note
Reawakening the Magic: Bob Iger and the Walt Disney Company
By: David J. Collis
Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-483.
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- October 2019
- Case
Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music
By: Rohit Deshpandé
To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians...
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- August 2019 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
The Walt Disney Company: Theme Parks
By: Rory McDonald, Allison Mnookin and Iuliana Mogosanu
As he seeks to place the division he leads on a firm footing for the future, Tom Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, is considering a range of investments designed either to upgrade the guest experience in the company’s existing parks or to expand access...
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- May 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
The Video-Streaming Wars in 2019: Can Disney Catch Netflix?
By: Anita Elberse and Monica Cody
Bob Iger, CEO of entertainment conglomerate Disney, thrilled investors with details about Disney’s upcoming foray into video streaming in April 2019. Disney’s move was only the latest in a series of actions taken by new and established entertainment companies in a...
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- November 2017 (Revised July 2019)
- Case
Project Moab at Hulu
By: C. Fritz Foley and James Weber
In 2015, Elaine Paul, CFO of Hulu, and the rest of the senior leadership team, must decide if they should offer a new, advertisement-free subscription service. At the time Hulu distributed a wide variety of content including in season current programing and earned...
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- March 2017 (Revised December 2018)
- Case
Reawakening the Magic: Bob Iger and the Walt Disney Company
By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman
Mickey Mouse, Snow White, and Buzz Lightyear strolled down Main Street at the grand opening of Hong Kong Disney in the fall of 2005, pausing to snap selfies with enthusiastic children in Mickey Mouse ears. Bob Iger, newly appointed CEO of The Walt Disney Company,...
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Keywords:
Franchise Management;
Brand Management;
Culture Change;
Business Units;
Acquisition Strategy;
Technological Change;
Disney;
ESPN;
Cord-cutting;
Bob Iger;
Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Diversification;
Integration;
Media;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Consumer Products Industry