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Generoso P. Pope, Jr.
outlandish stories, Pope is heralded in the publishing world for creating an elaborate and highly profitable distribution network. He successfully courted the large supermarket chains by offering a generous revenue-sharing model - one... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Wilton D. Cole
Cole radically transformed the publishing company by selling the struggling magazine division in 1956, which, at the time, represented over 50% of the firm’s revenues. Through a series of targeted acquisitions and internal investment,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- March 1998
- Case
Launch
Launch has developed an entertainment publication on CD-ROM with 240,000 subscribers and has recently introduced an on-line entertainment product (www.mylaunch.com) to complement the CD-ROM. Deals with multiple-channel delivery and platform selection and branding on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value
When Barnes & Noble rolled out a line of “store-brand” classic books last summer, the publishing industry gasped.The company aimed to provide consumers with high-quality books at prices significantly below what they would pay from View Details
Conde M. Nast
Nast transformed his first magazine, Vogue, from a low revenue and low readership publication into a premier fashion magazine that generated millions in revenues. Such turnarounds were typical of most Nast publications, including Glamour and Home and Garden. In... View Details
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Neither a Bazaar nor a Cathedral: The Interplay between Structure and Agency in Wikipedia's Role System.
By: Ofer Arazy, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Adam Balila
Roles provide a key coordination mechanism in peer-production. Whereas one stream in the literature has focused on the structural responsibilities associated with roles, the another has stressed the emergent nature of work. To date, these streams have proceeded largely... View Details
Arazy, Ofer, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, and Adam Balila. "Neither a Bazaar nor a Cathedral: The Interplay between Structure and Agency in Wikipedia's Role System." Art. 1. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 70, no. 1 (January 2019): 3–15.
Walter H. Annenberg
Annenberg built a fledgling, debt-burdened newspaper business into a publishing empire. He introduced Seventeen in 1944 – sparking a new trend in targeted publications to America’s youth. In 1953, he overcame numerous logistical... View Details
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Warren H. Phillips
Phillips presided over Dow Jones & Company’s most successful financial performance – generating a sevenfold increase in revenue and a fivefold increase in profitability. He greatly expanded the Wall Street Journal’s Asia-Pacific coverage and invested in technology... View Details
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Allen H. Neuharth
When Neuharth joined Gannett, its business consisted of acquiring and managing small-town newspapers. During his tenure, he grew the publishing company into a billion-dollar business through his aggressive and professional management... View Details
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William T. Kerr
company, which publishes more than 50 home-and-family oriented magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens and Ladies’ Home Journal, and owns a dozen TV stations. View Details
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Turbulent Stability of Emergent Roles: The Dualistic Nature of Self-Organizing Knowledge Co-Production
By: Ofer Arazy, Johaness Daxenberg, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Oded Nov and Irene Gurevych
Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-organizing co-production community models with ambiguous role definitions. Current theories struggle to explain how high-quality knowledge is developed in these settings and how... View Details
Keywords: Wikipedia; Knowledge Production; Organizational Structure; Knowledge; Information Publishing
Arazy, Ofer, Johaness Daxenberg, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Oded Nov, and Irene Gurevych. "Turbulent Stability of Emergent Roles: The Dualistic Nature of Self-Organizing Knowledge Co-Production." Information Systems Research 27, no. 4 (December 2016): 792–812.
William F. Kerby
Kerby was responsible for building the Wall Street Journal into the second largest national newspaper in the Unites States with a circulation in excess of 2 million. He championed the company’s diversification from a one-newspaper journal into a worldwide View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- News
Oscar Dystel, Who Saved Bantam Books, Dies at 101
James H. McGraw
McGraw was the founder of both the magazine and book publishing empire. The firm originally specialized in publications for the technical field, but soon expanded into other disciplines, such as textbooks for colleges and high schools.... View Details
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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
Frank A. Munsey
Frank Munsey revolutionized the publishing industry by bringing financial rigor to the business. Munsey was a pioneer in connecting advertising prices to circulation volume making large-scale magazine production affordable and profitable.... View Details
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Walter D. Fuller
Fuller successfully stepped into Cyrus Curtis’ role and led the publishing company through 25 years of top level financial performance. He expanded the base of the company’s publications – most notably, the Saturday Evening Post – and... View Details
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
encounter with the 78-year-old business magazine. Wetlaufer joined HBR as a senior editor in 1996 and was named editor last October. She has worked with many of the world’s experts on leadership and organization to publish groundbreaking... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
Catering to women consumers
Time Inc. former chairman and CEO Ann Moore (MBA 1978) changed the landscape of magazine publishing—and advertising—when she introduced Real Simple and InStyle. (Published January 2015) View Details