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Site Credits - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Harvard Library Preservation, Imaging Services A-V PRODUCTION Northern Light Productions PRINTING Ram Printing, Inc. Debra Wallace, Executive Director, Knowledge and Library Services Laura Linard, Director, Special Collections, Knowledge... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
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Making a Difference
Print this PDF, write your message, snap your high-res photo, and share it on Twitter (@HBSalumni) or Instagram using the hashtag #HBSMakingADifference. Be sure to tell us your name, program, and graduation year. Follow @HBSAlumni on... View Details
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Compensation data: private equity | Baker Library
Help Center Compensation data: private equity Where can I find compensation data for post-MBA roles on the buy-side? The print reports listed below are available in the Stamps Reading Room for in-library use by authorized Baker Visitors .... View Details
DeWitt Wallace
After his idea for a magazine with condensed articles for time starved readers was rejected by several New York publishers, Wallace borrowed money from his family and launched Reader’s Digest from his basement apartment in 1921. Reader’s Digest was eventually published... View Details
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Dorothy Schiff
Schiff was instrumental in the growth and prosperity of the New York Post. While she initially used the publication to promote her liberal viewpoints, she eventually moved the newspaper to a middle ground position. She initiated the sensationalist style that has been a... View Details
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Generoso P. Pope, Jr.
Pope transformed a small New York-based newspaper called the Enquirer into the second largest publication in the United States. In 1972, Pope radically altered the publication's format and content to highlight sensational and inspirational stories. While The National... View Details
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Samuel I. Newhouse
At the age of 26 with $600 borrowed from his relatives, Newhouse bought his first local newspaper, the Staten Island Advance. Over the next five decades, Newhouse would amass a communications giant including a collection of 22 local newspapers, 6 television stations, 5... View Details
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Harold W. McGraw, Jr.
Under his leadership, McGraw became the largest publisher of trade magazines and newsletters in the United States, accounting for 30% of its sales. In addition, McGraw-Hill published 20,000 different books a year, ranking as the largest publisher of textbooks in the... View Details
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Patrick J. McGovern
Beginning as a market researcher, McGovern created Computerworld in 1967 as a vehicle to bring together computer manufacturers and their prospective customers. With the rapid success of this publication, McGovern went on to publish more than 60 magazines and trade... View Details
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Henry R. Luce
Luce created a publishing empire. He launched the weekly Time in 1923, which was followed by the introduction of Fortune in 1930, Life in 1936, and Sports Illustrated in 1954. Luce also presided over a vast communications empire, which included eight radio and... View Details
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John H. Johnson
Johnson built the world’s largest black-owned publishing empire. He is the founder and publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony and JET magazines. He also owns Ebony Cosmetics as well as radio and TV production companies. View Details
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William R. Hearst
Beginning with the San Francisco Examiner in 1887, Hearst used aggressive acquisition techniques to build a publishing empire. His acquisition of the New York Journal in 1895 set the stage for fierce competition with cross-town rival Joseph Pulitzer. Hearst's explicit... View Details
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Robert C. Guccione
During the height of the sixties sexual revolution, Guccione provided the most significant challenge to the dominance of Playboy in the men’s leisure magazine sector. Opting for more explicit photographs and more highly charged journalistic content in Penthouse,... View Details
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Earl G. Graves
After careers in the Army’s Green Berets and in politics, Graves started Black Enterprise to be a news source for and about the growing community of black professionals and to serve as a vehicle for promoting business and economic development. Though it took some time... View Details
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Frank E. Gannett
Gannett owned and operated daily newspapers in small-to-medium sized, one-newspaper towns, like Ithaca, Rochester, and Hartford. Gannett’s one-newspaper town strategy was extremely profitable. At the time of his death, Gannett’s communications empire included more than... View Details
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Marshall Field III
In 1941, Field established the Chicago Sun, selling nearly 900,000 copies on the paper’s first day. Within five years, the Sun’s daily circulation was 400,000 with a Sunday circulation of 450,000. Field also published Parade, a weekly pictorial supplement, which in... View Details
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Nelson Doubleday
Doubleday focused his efforts on the mass production and distribution of inexpensive books. In 1934, Doubleday purchased full ownership of the Literary Guild of America, a book club that generated sales of 1 million books a year. Under Doubleday’s leadership, Doubleday... View Details
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Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Modernist Culture in America. American Quarterly 39, no. 1 (Spring 1987): 136. http://www.adcglobal.org/adc/history/ The High Art of Photographic Advertisement Introduction The Exhibition Photography and Print Advertising Pictorial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: Ruling the Waves
rules (legal strictures, backed by enforcement). While she begins by discussing the impact of developments such as the printing press and ocean navigation, Spar focuses on the communications technologies of the last two centuries. She... View Details
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Venetian Exchange Rate — New Directions – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Exchange rates were also printed in portable and easily accessible ready reckoners. These volumes are valuable sources of financial information as well as a record of innovation in evolving business markets. [ Corso del cambio ] Venetia... View Details