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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
For over twenty years, Boston native Joe Toplyn has written and produced television comedy. His credits include Late Night with David Letterman, for which he won four Emmy Awards; The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; The Late Show with David... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
watched quietly as the finalists defended earth from pixelated aliens on their television screens. “‘Fweep, fweep, fweep,’ went the lasers. ’Krch, krch, krch,’ went the doomed invaders,” the Associated Press reported from one of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
STUDENTS "Enjoy whatever you are doing or move on." CURRENT READING Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements, by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers As the overseer of Singapore's economic direction for many years, Philip Yeo moved the city-state's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
opined. Given the range of projects under development at Microsoft, there’s no shortage of challenges for talented recruits. Among those highlighted by Ballmer were using the Internet to transform television viewing into an interactive... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil some decades ago, I saw how the arrival of electricity — and a television mounted in the public square — changed life in my rural village. The outside world became visible. Other peoples and places were... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
In the motion picture industry, most people know Alan Horn as the smart, savvy chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, the film company that has turned out movie hits such as When Harry Met Sally and In the Line of Fire, as well as the phenomenally successful... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
and closing ceremonies for the Winter Olympic Games, a smash hit enjoyed by a global television audience of hundreds of millions. "Reindeer, sled dogs, and fiddlers were my life for an entire year," laughs the lanky, amiable Høegh. "Then... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
"Multimedia and the Boundaryless Organization." With the creation of services such as online newspapers and television home shopping, information has become a commodity itself, replacing physical products and services. Associate Professor... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
state-of-the-art graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare today's Web ads with the first... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
For most of the past 25 years, Jeff Sagansky has followed the same ritual every morning. He gets up early and pores over the previous day's Nielsen ratings, those omnipotent numbers that detail who's watching what on television from dawn... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
accounting from the University of Chicago. He’ll tap his interests in corporate accountability and disclosure to help him teach the first-year required course Financial Reporting and Control. Assistant Professor Thales Teixeira, a member of the Marketing unit, received... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
television programs that fell flat, despite big investments,’ says Zuluaga. “He told us to be sure to hedge your bets because there are big risks in trying to understand your audience.” View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
the proceedings on closed-circuit television in a nearby room.) Ranging in age from 6 to 15, identified by name cards, some eighty kids filled a Hawes Hall classroom. Not all feet reached the floor, but hands of all sizes were soon waving... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
became instrumental in shaping our country’s food culture. From doing early business planning for the Food Network—“People were just starting to think, ‘Maybe there could be a whole television channel devoted to food’; It was a big... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Leading the Charge
was David (“Bull”) Gurfein (MBA 2000), whose picture appeared on television sets and in newspapers around the world. According to the New York Daily News (March 22, 2003), Gurfein wanted the gesture to reassure apprehensive Iraqis that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
20th century, I decided on an industrial marketer and a consumer marketer who epitomized the "American Century." Each in his own way was a pioneer in the art of salesmanship: Thomas J. Watson, Sr., who created International Business Machines (IBM), and Charles Revson,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
postcollege when I was working at Lotus Development, creating interactive marketing demos for various products. I really liked the experience of getting my hands dirty working with designers and producers. And I got lucky, because I met a View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Using Technology to Help Reclaim Lives from Addiction
motivate healthy behavior. “As a student at HBS,” Loeb reflects, “I thought I would pursue a career at the intersection of television and computers. I never dreamed that, many years later, I would be using that concept to help people save... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
studying on our campus. In the same way that recorded music is a complement, not a substitute, for attending a live concert, and in the same way that watching a ballgame on television can’t really compete with the experience of sitting in... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
Dick: From Les Bizerables to Hollywood and the Emmys. Courtesy Leonard Dick It’s been “a very kooky couple of weeks” for television writer Leonard Dick (MBA ’90). Season Three of the critically acclaimed CBS show The Good Wife premieres... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna