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    Patrick J. McGovern

    Beginning as a market researcher, McGovern created Computerworld in 1967 as a vehicle to bring together computer manufacturers and their prospective customers. With the rapid success of this publication, McGovern went on to publish more than 60 magazines and trade... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

      Henry R. Luce

      Luce created a publishing empire. He launched the weekly Time in 1923, which was followed by the introduction of Fortune in 1930, Life in 1936, and Sports Illustrated in 1954. Luce also presided over a vast communications empire, which included eight radio and... View Details
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        John H. Johnson

        Johnson built the world’s largest black-owned publishing empire. He is the founder and publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony and JET magazines. He also owns Ebony Cosmetics as well as radio and TV production companies. View Details
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          William R. Hearst

          Beginning with the San Francisco Examiner in 1887, Hearst used aggressive acquisition techniques to build a publishing empire. His acquisition of the New York Journal in 1895 set the stage for fierce competition with cross-town rival Joseph Pulitzer. Hearst's explicit... View Details
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            Robert C. Guccione

            During the height of the sixties sexual revolution, Guccione provided the most significant challenge to the dominance of Playboy in the men’s leisure magazine sector. Opting for more explicit photographs and more highly charged journalistic content in Penthouse,... View Details
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              Earl G. Graves

              After careers in the Army’s Green Berets and in politics, Graves started Black Enterprise to be a news source for and about the growing community of black professionals and to serve as a vehicle for promoting business and economic development. Though it took some time... View Details
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                Frank E. Gannett

                Gannett owned and operated daily newspapers in small-to-medium sized, one-newspaper towns, like Ithaca, Rochester, and Hartford. Gannett’s one-newspaper town strategy was extremely profitable. At the time of his death, Gannett’s communications empire included more than... View Details
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                  Marshall Field III

                  In 1941, Field established the Chicago Sun, selling nearly 900,000 copies on the paper’s first day. Within five years, the Sun’s daily circulation was 400,000 with a Sunday circulation of 450,000. Field also published Parade, a weekly pictorial supplement, which in... View Details
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                    Nelson Doubleday

                    Doubleday focused his efforts on the mass production and distribution of inexpensive books. In 1934, Doubleday purchased full ownership of the Literary Guild of America, a book club that generated sales of 1 million books a year. Under Doubleday’s leadership, Doubleday... View Details
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                    Bibliography - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

                    raisonné des estampes de Chrispijn senior et junior. . . . Amsterdam: G.W. Hissink, 1975. Fuchs, Rudolf. Der Bancho Publico zu Nürnberg. Berlin: Dunker & Humblot, 1955. George, Mary Dorothy. British Museum. Department of Prints and... View Details
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                    Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit

                    Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits Woodcuts, engravings, and other prints reveal the ways in which credit was imagined in the pre-industrial Western world. Images of economic life... View Details
                    • 01 Jun 2002
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                    A Fine Collection

                    “We're just not prepared to create a public space with a full-time staff,” explained Mrs. Williams, who earned a Ph.D. in art history in 1996. “We'd like to be compared to the New York Public Library's Print Room, where scholars from... View Details
                    • 09 Aug 2013
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                    Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

                    the world are trying to reinvent themselves for digital success. Indeed, few strategic problems are as hard as those confronting newspapers—declining print revenues, even greater declines in advertising revenue (mostly due to the loss of... View Details
                    Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

                      J. Basil Ward

                      Ward presided over a period of dramatic growth and development for Addressograph. Through careful acquisitions and targeted investments, he enabled the company to stay at the forefront of the printing and typesetting industry. Under his... View Details
                      Keywords: Computers & Electronics
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                      William Kentridge Universal Archive (Big Tree) 2012 | About

                      William Kentridge Universal Archive (Big Tree) , 2012 William Kentridge (South African, born 1955), Universal Archive (Big Tree) , 2012, Linocut printed on 15 non-archival sheets of Encyclopedia Britannica mounted to white wove paper, 32... View Details
                      • 01 Dec 2009
                      • News

                      HBS Philanthropy Report Online

                      This year, the School’s annual donor report will be published online. The change from a print publication reflects a cost savings consistent with a School-wide effort to contain expenses, as well as a desire for environmentally... View Details

                        Jann S. Wenner

                        Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, Wenner set out to create a new rock magazine. Launched in 1967, Rolling Stone magazine became an instant success. Wenner, known for his ability to spot new trends, has gone on to repeat this early success by launching... View Details
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                          Edward W. Scripps

                          Beginning with the purchase of the Cleveland Penny Press, a cheep mass-market publication in 1878, Scripps went on to build the first newspaper chain in the United States. Through a series of acquisitions, he formed United Press International consisting of 34... View Details
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                            J. Richard Munro

                            As CEO of Time, prior to the merger, he helped build HBO into a cable TV powerhouse, having headed the division back in the 1970s. Most notably, however, Munro engineered the creation of one of the world’s largest media and communications companies when he purchased... View Details
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                              Hugh M. Hefner

                              In 1953, Hefner broke out of the conventional sleaze of the adult entertainment business by indulging the fantasies of the middle class executive male and including interviews with high profile celebrities and editorial content from well-respected literary figures in... View Details
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