Publications

May 2014 (Revised July 2016)
Case

RCA: Color Television and the Department of Justice (A)

By: Willy C. Shih and Gregory Dieterich

This case examines the early history of the color television receiver market and the global consequences of an historic 1958 consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice that opened RCA's patents to licensing by domestic competitors royalty-free. This externality... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Patents; Rights; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Business History; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; Japan

February 2013
Case

YouTube Channels

By: Sunil Gupta and Dharmishta Rood

In December 2011 YouTube launched a website redesign that made Channels the central focus of the site. This redesign was the company's first foray into a strategy designed to foster long-form user engagement. YouTube invested $100 million in 100 Channels, often created... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Internet and the Web; Entertainment; Growth and Development Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

March 2005
Teaching Note

Must Zee TV (TN)

By: Bharat N. Anand

Teaching Note to (9-700-122). View Details

Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Blethen Family and the Seattle Times Company (A), The

By: John A. Davis and Cathy Quinn

Frank Blethen, the fourth-generation publisher of The Seattle Times, ponders the challenges facing this family business. This case reviews the long history of this business and family and asks whether family ownership and management are in the interests of both the... View Details

Keywords: History; Management; Business or Company Management; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Family Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

June 2000 (Revised February 2003)
Case

Must Zee TV

By: Bharat N. Anand and Tarun Khanna

Explores issues related to (1) the vertical boundaries of the firm in an emerging-economy context, especially the effects of lack of intellectual property rights and lack of contract enforcement on both industry structure and boundaries of the firm; and (2) the extent... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Copyright; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

Web

Tools & Services | Information Technology

Printing Services Learn more about the printing services offered at HBS. Information Security Learn about the ways you can keep your data and systems, and HBS, safe. Media & AV Explore the media and... View Details

Profile

Juan Eyzaguirre

through government again." On campus, Juan's wife, Cecilia Vial, is collaborating with other entrepreneurs on a media enterprise for Latin American women. Juan admits his own ambitions are currently less precise. Ultimately, the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

Profile

Benjamin Story

"Summer Analytics was great. I loved it." Eventually, Ben intends to return to southern California for "something in media and entertainment," which is the focus of his internship search as well. "I don't want to... View Details

Web

Frank Batten | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

interview at his office in Norfolk, Virginia, in February 2000. Interviewer: Amy Blitz, HBS Director of Media Development for Entrepreneurial Management. Frank Batten died in 2009. Paul Baier Steven B. Belkin Back to top View Details

24 Feb 2011
News

Show Time

the first MBA student to give birth while at HBS and then go on to complete her degree. At the Entertainment & Media Club’s annual conference a couple of weeks ago, keynoter Gerry Lopez (MBA ’84), CEO and president of AMC Theatres, stated... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media by Mikolaj Jan Piskorski (Princeton University Press) The secret of successful social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, according to... View Details

October 2015
Case

Facebook: The First Ten Years

By: Shane Greenstein, Marco Iansiti and Christine Snively

Facebook celebrated its ten year anniversary in February 2014. Over the past decade it has grown into the largest social network in the world with one billion users. After filing an IPO in 2012 at a $104 billion valuation (the third largest IPO in U.S. history), the... View Details

Keywords: Social Networks; Technology; Facebook; Entrepreneurship; Profit; Open Source Distribution; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Social Media; Information Technology Industry

2023
Working Paper

Mapping Organizational-Level Networks Using Individual-Level Connections: Evidence from Online Professional Networks

By: Shelley Xin Li, Frank Nagle and Aner Zhou

Organization-level networks facilitate the flow of information and business activities in the economy. Prior research relies solely on high-level connections to measure these networks. Therefore, to understand the role of employee connections at all job levels in... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Value; Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Social Media