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29 Feb 2016
News

In the ‘Spotlight’

When Josh Singer graduated from Harvard in 2001 with a joint JD/MBA, he headed to Los Angeles with the idea of working on the business side of media and entertainment. He interned at the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, but in a plot twist... View Details

12 Sep 2018
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Game-Changing Analytics

at multiple contact points, including ticket sales, retail transactions, digital communications, and social media,” notes Gelman, a former Crimson basketball star who also played professionally in Europe. She cites the Patriots’ launch a few years ago, of merchandising... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Passing the Torch

General Electric, the world's most valuable company and the firm where he has spent his entire career, Immelt good-naturedly dealt with the barrage of attention that accompanied his media coronation. "I've never measured my self-worth by... View Details

Keywords: Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

MaterialsHarvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 510-091 How does a small business set its online media budget? The HBS Executive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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2.1.4 Classroom Non-Attribution | MBA

viewpoints, changing their minds, and taking risks. The proliferation of social media has affected this learning environment. Because of the potential permanence and widespread dissemination of communications designed to reach a broader... View Details

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Ann Lucena

The Turkey IXP gave her an additional opportunity to stretch. "I worked with a large retailer that wants to maximize the use of social media and customer-relations systems to reach customers more effectively," Ann said. "We... View Details

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Erling Lorentzen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

shared his remarkable business experiences during a video interview at his office in Rio de Janeiro in March 2000. Interviewer: Amy Blitz, HBS Director of Media Development for Entrepreneurial Management. Dean LeBaron Dan Lufkin Back to... View Details

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Password Managers | Information Technology

passwords, and if necessary, un-share them. Your HBS Credentials: T here may be some accounts that need to be shared amongst colleagues. For example, you may have a social media account that multiple people manage. A password manager will... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Where Are They Now?

media wanted Glauber’s expert opinion. After all, he played a key role in setting up the Resolution Trust Corporation to handle the S&L bailout in the late 1980s, and he helped formulate regulatory reform of commercial banks in the early... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

04 May 2017
News

How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook

she would publish it, but when she woke up, she changed her mind and put it on Facebook. In Lean In, Sandberg had admitted to crying at work (another confession the media jumped on), but this was the first time she’d shared anything so... View Details

December 2017 (Revised March 2019)
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Armarium: Luxury Fashion Brands for Rent

By: Jill Avery, David Fubini, Natasha Dossa and Devon Stewart

Armarium, a two-sided online platform that offered consumers the opportunity to rent the most coveted, current season high fashion clothing and accessories from the top global luxury brands, had emerged from its first sales season with two distinct customer segments:... View Details

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07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-043.pdf Media versus Special Interests Authors:Alexander Dyck, David Moss, and Luigi Zingales Abstract We argue that profit-maximizing media helps overcome the problem of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Nov 2021
Interview

TikTok: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Brian Kenny

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around the simple idea of helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. By May 2020, TikTok operated in 155 countries and had roughly 1 billion monthly active users, placing... View Details

Keywords: Apps; Artificial Intelligence; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Social Media

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01 Sep 2003
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New Editor Takes Helm at HBS Bulletin

worked as a writer and editor with the Miami Herald and Congressional Quarterly. At Cox Interactive Media from 1999 through 2002, he launched and managed a Northern Virginia city-guide Web site aimed at one million Internet users, hiring... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

March 2014
Teaching Note

The Weather Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Strategic Change; Technology; Digital; Weather; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Change Management; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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August 2007 (Revised February 2013)
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Oprah Winfrey (TN)

By: Nancy F. Koehn, Marya Besharov, Katherine Miller and Nora Khan

Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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April 2021
Article

Homing and Platform Responses to Entry: Historical Evidence from the U.S. Newspaper Industry

By: K. Francis Park, Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu

We examine how heterogeneity in customers’ tendencies to single-home or multi-home affects a platform’s competitive responses to new entrants in the market. We first develop a formal model to generate predictions about how a platform will respond. We then empirically... View Details

Keywords: Single-homing; Multi-homing; Platform Responses; Newpaper; Television; Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Newspapers; Television Entertainment; History; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

gaps within the organization. Purchase this note:http://hbr.org/search/413037-PDF-ENG Ringier—Building a Digital-Age Media Company Felix Oberholzer-GeeHarvard Business School Case 713-423 Overview of the strategic re-orientation and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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By: Nancy F. Koehn

My teaching and research focus on crisis leadership and how men and women use crises to make themselves better leaders. I currently teach a module in the Advanced Management Program and an HBS Online LIVE course on Courageous Leadership. The purpose of each course is... View Details

Keywords: History Of Leadership; Effective Leadership In Turbulent Times; Crisis Management; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; History; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; Europe

December 2018
Case

CIR Group: Passing Wealth through the Generations

By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy and Elena Corsi

Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% of CIR Group, another publicly listed holding. The latter held majority shares in GEDI, Italy’s largest print... View Details