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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
dropped. Similar situations have transpired with the advent of digitized photography, use of radio frequencies for various handheld IT appliances, and the development of such products as elevators that call in to the service center or to... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
begin with consumer electronics. That industry began with radio. Two enterprises commercialized, that is, brought the technology into public use: Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a joint venture of the three leading U.S. electrical and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
studied music and hosted a late-night jazz radio show. When he graduated from college, Nelson took a job with Boston-based Wellman International and immediately set off for China. “I had no idea what I was getting into,” he says. “But it... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
announcements with campus career offices Advertising job openings in local and ethnic newspapers Advertising job openings in radio and/or TV ads From the Career Blog Make Social Media Work for You Abroad Looking to move to a new country?... View Details
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Harvard Business School
profitable strategy investing in communications companies targeting urban neighborhoods. The corporation's long-term investment in Radio One, a Black company that was the fastest-growing radio broadcasting... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
Those years burst at the seams with experiences, lessons, and above all people I will never forget. I believe my time at HBS will be the same—and that excites me more than I can express. CLAIRE OSTERMAN / 1st Radio Battalion, I Marine... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
Taurus, with no lights on, suddenly roars by. “Could be a stolen!” Timken says, radioing it in and hitting the lights and siren, and we are off in pursuit, pedal to the metal, doing seventy at least, screaming down narrow residential... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
further investments in the newspaper, television, and radio realms, combining them all under the name Landmark in 1967. In 1982, amid considerable skepticism from industry experts, Batten created The Weather Channel, a 24-hour cable... View Details
- 14 Feb 2009
- News
Are Executives Worth Their Compensation?
- 03 Feb 2009
- News
What's On The Job Frontier? Experts Weigh In
Charles D. Tandy
Though Tandy Corporation was a successful leather goods company, Charles Tandy’s biggest accomplishment was his revitalization of Radio Shack. Acquiring the company with $4.5 million in debt and almost $1 million in largely uncollectible... View Details
Keywords: Retail
L. Lowry Mays
Beginning with one small radio station in 1972, Mays went on to create a massive media empire under the name Clear Channel Communications. Mays was particularly aggressive in acquiring new entities as deregulation spread to the View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
Almost fifty years before HBS developed a broadcast presence with its own Web site in 1996, the School had a rather limited one: the radio station WHBS, which was in operation from 1948 to 1964 or 1965. It was limited because the... View Details
Arthur C. Dorrance
In 1931, Dorrance began radio advertising, sponsoring famous radio programs like the George Burns & Gracie Allen Show and the Campbell Playhouse. Dorrance introduced Cream of Mushroom Soup in 1934, and... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
who started his first company, Tribeca Designs, an efficient storage CD tower, while a student at Harvard Business School, spent his early post-HBS years working for private equity firms before joining Radio One—an American broadcasting... View Details
David Sarnoff
Trained as an engineer, Sarnoff predicted that radio, and later, television, would transform the way people interacted with the world around them. Sarnoff lead RCA to become the leader in radio programming, offering services from news,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
William P. Lear
Long before he invented the autopilot and the executive jet that bears his name, Lear was a pioneer in the development of radio technology. A self-taught engineer, Lear developed the prototype for the first practical automobile View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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Skilled fingers required for Philcos - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Chapter Images The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next Skilled fingers required for Philcos ca. 1926 Phico Radio and Television Corporation Chas P. Mills Skilled fingers deftly assemble... View Details
Thomas S. Murphy
At the age of 29, Murphy took control of a nearly bankrupt television station in Albany, NY, that would become a launching point for a media empire worth over $5 billion. Through successfully acquiring and integrating over 30 media companies (newspapers, TV and View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The People’s Pods
podcasters—James Allworth (MBA 2010) and Roben Farzad (MBA 2005)—weigh in. HBS: Why did it take so long for the form to find its footing? Allworth's Aha moment RF: Technology. All that stodgy equipment you’d have to go to a public radio... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell