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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
a tipping point, where we said, ‘Nobody else has really done that,’ and he said, ‘Well, why don’t we?’” Five years later, the decision has transformed the WWE. In 2008, some 20 percent of the company’s revenue came from media; in 2019, it’s 70 percent. “We were very... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
think, ‘Maybe there could be a whole television channel devoted to food.’ It was a big question mark,” Duda says now with a laugh. “I’ve worked on a small part of a big canvas of cultural change,” Duda says of his consulting career in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
technology and entertainment. Since graduation, his career path has wound its way through pay-per-view television programming and new media business development to his current job as president of E! Online. Based on his experience writing... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
can bring everything to a halt.” Djelic adds to the pressure by placing himself very much in the public eye. “Communicating is a big part of my job,” he explains. “In this small country, we have 350 television stations serving a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
Jetta ads use real-time crashes to emphasize the car’s safety. How would you respond to critics? The two permissible ways to demonstrate safety in commercials in the past involved crash dummies or showing a car weaving to avoid an obstacle. But in movies and View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
University, preceded by three years at sea on destroyers. I knew a lot about the Victory at Sea television series on World War II, and nearly as much about hunting submarines from a tossing destroyer in the North Atlantic, but what I knew... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
of video editing equipment for television and movies). Cox likens the art of picking winners to a Rorschach test. "You see a lot of spots out there," he says, "but you have to be able to say at some point, 'This one looks like a picture.'... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
art-auction company executive; the former CEO of a Spanish-language television company; a retired rear admiral who had headed the Girl Scouts and served on the board of Weight Watchers International; a theatrical producer; and, until two... View Details
- 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 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
those already exist. They need to have a building component and exist as a starting point for kids to create their own stories, not just play out what they see on television or in a movie.” In every case—including movies—“we have to make... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
business when I was only 27.” Batten is a visionary entrepreneur and business leader who built Landmark Communications, Inc., based in Norfolk, Virginia, into a multimedia enterprise consisting of dozens of newspapers and specialty publications, several View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
because there are a lot of unlikeable characters, but you want the audience to need and want to spend time with these people. And then the second thing is there has to be something universal in the theme because television is a global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
the tools to drive this small business into a multimillion-dollar international business.” Close friend Francine LeFrak, an award-winning New York City television producer and president of LeFrak Productions, describes Russo as “a force... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
what began as a hobby morphed into a new career as a successful actor, with roles in Lifetime and ABC television movies, TV series, films, and shorts. Here again, of course, Carson is an outlier. “There aren’t that many people in my age... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
their organizations. The second platform, HBX Live, is a virtual classroom housed in a Boston television studio where up to 60 people are engaged in real-time case discussions. The discussion leader — typically an HBS faculty member —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Harvard Business School. In an effort to ensure parity and competitiveness among all its teams—and thereby stoke fan interest—the NFL literally shares the wealth: Some 60 percent of its nationally generated television and merchandising... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
conclusion. What’s known about the value of Twitter in particular? SG: I think a lot of this is vanity, to be honest. In some ways it’s like the old celebrity endorsements that we saw in television advertising. How many people buy Hanes... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
parents are all engaged in debating both sides of the issue. What would be the fairest solution? Or in Yokohama, Japan. In March 2003, a 22-year-old teaching English at a local junior high school is watching television with other staff... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
television. We were a cable television company. So the first thing is we had to create a unique distribution model. Many of them still watched broadcast TV, so first we had to convince Viacom to allow us to acquire broadcast stations in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
some truly Olympian details to take care of, including planning for 2 million spectators (joined by 3 billion television viewers, or 60 percent of the human race); 15,000 athletes and officials from 197 participating countries; 30... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons