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Arde Bulova

Bulova was also known as a pioneer in radio advertisement. Progressive in his hiring policies, Bulova gave preferential hiring treatment to the physically challenged. View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

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

Samuel I. Newhouse

At the age of 26 with $600 borrowed from his relatives, Newhouse bought his first local newspaper, the Staten Island Advance. Over the next five decades, Newhouse would amass a communications giant including a collection of 22 local newspapers, 6 television stations, 5... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

Paul V. Galvin

Creating the Motorola car radio, Galvin emerged as the premier producer of car radios in the 1930s. Galvin also invented the walkie-talkie, producing some 40,000 during World War II. In 1947, Galvin introduced the first practical... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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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

01 Dec 2009
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Up for Grabs

governorship of California. Alluding to the cash-strapped Golden State’s financial predicament, Whitman said, “Honestly, when I talk about spending, I get mad. I simply cannot understand how even politicians could have let things get so bad,” the New York Times... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

19 Dec 2008
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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

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

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

07 Dec 2015
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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

11 Jan 2017
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The Next Play

against type post-HBS as a contributor at ESPN and cohost of its new weekly radio show The Morning Roast. “I didn’t want to be the ex-jock sportscaster guy,” he told the Baltimore Sun in a recent article that details his stints as... View Details

Joyce C. Hall

Hall created the world’s largest greeting card company. Hallmark Cards are sold throughout the world (currently in 100 countries). He pioneered the use of radio and TV advertising for greeting cards and revolutionized the industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Alexander M. Poniatoff

Poniatoff, founder of Ampex, created many of the major innovations in commercial recording technology and produced the first US built magnetic audio tape recorder in 1948 revolutionizing the radio industry. After creating the standard for... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Portrait Project

Wilson Kyi

Filial piety. My deep reverence for my parents is captured in this Confucian philosophy. But I can no longer live for them. I used to stake out with my dad in our auto body shop, fending off armed burglars from stealing car radios and... View Details

Stanley B. Resor

Though his wife Helen was the creative genius behind JWT’s ad campaigns, Resor was a pioneer in the business of advertising. Under his leadership, JWT became a leader, not only in print advertising, but also in radio advertising and... View Details

Keywords: Services

Richard R. Deupree

sponsoring the first radio soap opera - “The Puddle Family” in 1932. In 1939, just five months after the introduction of television in the U.S., Procter & Gamble aired its first TV commercial (for Ivory soap) during the first... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

Walter S. Gifford

to 28.5 million. In 1927, Gifford launched his firm’s overseas operations and by 1948, 72 foreign countries were linked by wire and radio with Bell lines. View Details

Keywords: Communications

01 Mar 2011
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Cyberposium 16

The company wasn’t running on fumes, the fumes were gone,” said Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (MBA ’85), describing his first desperate days at the firm that has now become a wildly successful online personalized radio service with 65 million... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Herbert F. Johnson

Johnson built his company through extensive advertising (it was the first to establish company sponsorship of a radio show), and in many ways, changed the way Americans lived. He introduced such diverse household products as: “Raid”- the... View Details