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- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Seattle cable television company, and in 1969 sold the enterprise -- by then a multimillion-dollar business -- to CBS. He then "dabbled in real estate" and during a trip to the South Pacific to explore potential investment opportunities,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... 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 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
issue that could be teachable in the classroom.” (Indeed, aspects of the case were sometimes a bit too gripping for a few students: Heskett recalls that after a television report on Shouldice became a regular part of the case’s classroom... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
his creation of multidivisional structures present a fascinating portrait of one of the century's most impressive business minds. Neil McElroy and D. Paul ("Doc") Smelser of Procter & Gamble introduced soap operas to radio and television... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 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
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
intellectual content." A Balancing Act Carter Brown, who now chairs the cable television arts network Ovation and sits on the boards of some twenty nonprofit, public, and private institutions, observes, "You always have to be careful in... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
editor while gaining a firsthand education in storytelling-widget management. “A television show like The West Wing is really a company that is in the business of making 22 episodes a year,” Singer says. “John Wells is an amazing producer... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
television divisions. "I'm responsible for nearly $2 billion in revenues," he says. Previously, Zelnick held prominent positions in the movie industry, including a stint as president of Twentieth Century Fox. He decided to try running a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This is the beauty of Watson, which began as a View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
audio broadcasting technology to bring satellite radio to all corners of Africa. Koos Bekker, managing director of Naspers, a leading media and communications group in South Africa, discussed his firm's Internet and pay television... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
have successful careers, we wanted to have successful lives." In Denver, Judith G. Allen (MBA '83) also managed to parlay her career skills into a parttime consulting business after leaving the fulltime workforce. An executive in the cable 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
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
1996, and she moved back to the States, taking a job as vice president of operations with Warner Brothers Television in Los Angeles. "What I missed most about America was the attitude that you can be anybody and still get ahead in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
With a value estimated by Forbes magazine of over $480 million, the team ranks in the top third financially among MLB franchises. Even before last season’s title, the Giants’ fall pennant run yielded 4,000 new season ticket requests. Merchandise sales, View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
where poverty and human suffering are so widespread, you realize it is in part luck that you are not one of those emaciated faces staring out from the television screen. Such good fortune makes it incumbent upon me to assume a responsible... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
eventually made the leap to wearing the white garments that remind us of our commitment to living our spirituality daily," he says. The former real-estate developer and president of Time-Life Television is now CEO of Sun & Son, a computer... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso