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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
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
represented a substantial barrier to entry to any competitors, our long-term success would depend on customer service, scalability, and building the brand. While practically every other dot-com chose to advertise on the Internet, we saw View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- Web
Muriel Siebert Collection | Baker Library
tenure as New York Superintendent of Banks; her commitment to and involvement with a variety of groups, committees, associations, and other non-profit organizations; and her run for the U.S. Senate. The collection also includes Siebert’s writings and appearances on... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
being his own boss, Royster instead went to work at Boston-based Capital Resource Partners, then the African-American private equity firm TSG Capital in Stamford, Connecticut. At TSG he was introduced to one of its portfolio companies, View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
the rest. And while I always liked having hits, my hits were never based on making music that I thought fit urban radio or alternative rock radio or Top Forty radio. I don’t want only hit records—I did that.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
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
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610028-PDF-ENG Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star? (A) Harvard Business School Case 310-026 Joe Kennedy, president and CEO of Pandora, one of the largest and most popular web (Internet) View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
In 1998, Internet advertising revenue passed the $1 billion mark, more than double its 1997 level. Indeed, although the Internet entered the media fray barely four years ago, its revenues from national advertisers already surpass those of two rival media categories,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
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
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
single-country economy, and our labor pool is one of the best-educated, most productive, and most innovative in the world,” China Radio International’s CRIenglish.com reported (September 10, 2011). View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Now Hear This
The voiceover industry is booming. Those dulcet tones and distinctive pipes you've long heard on radio and TV commercials are now much in demand for CD-ROMs and the Internet, as well as for traditional markets such as cartoons and... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- News
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
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
traveling “sound effects guy” on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show, “doing what I used to do behind teachers’ backs.” He uses acoustic technology to enhance the art of storytelling. “Information is in words,” says... View Details
- Portrait Project
Adam Zalisk
lots of little ones. Shortly after college, I was far away from the theater – working in Manhattan skyscrapers and suburban office parks; my desk strewn with board reports and org charts. But when evening fell, and I watched from afar as commuters' cars emptied the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News
know about their world, they’re missing a big part of the story. They’re missing a pathway into what can be done to fix what’s wrong. “We do that by creating a training curriculum for journalists. We work now with more than 70 news organizations—mostly big newspapers,... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
great tool to promote new music. The music industry has of course long recognized that giving away samples of music for free over the airwaves can stimulate sales. The same seems to hold for P2P. The problem with radio as a promotional... View Details
- Fast Answer
Public companies: comparative financial ratios
Place any other additional screens you wish. Click on View Results. Click on Add Display Columns to include the desired ratios or data points After viewing the results again, click the Excel radio button to export your results. In Orbis:... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
that monitors radio broadcasts and frequencies and identifies songs as they air. Songs are scanned into a computer to create a digital "fingerprint," which is then matched against music played by radio... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Thought Leader
Bernstein). After a stint writing Hollywood radio scripts for Edward G. Robinson, he returned to Harvard to study philosophy. He simultaneously enrolled at HBS “despite being a Ôfellow traveler’ with communist friends,” as he later told... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
first-movers in radio were the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a joint venture of the three leading United States producers of electrical and telecommunications equipment, and the German company... View Details