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01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

as a TV sport and, from the fans' perspective, made it a national game. Before that, teams had only sold TV rights separately in their local markets." Television revenues remained rather modest, however,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2006
News

Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

roles of Europe and the United States in promoting the flow of capital across national borders. Investor Protection: The Czech Experience When TV Nova launched as the first privately owned TV channel in... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1998
News

25 Years in Show Business

some one hundred HBS students, under the direction of Alan Priest (MBA '98), put on "HBTV," a spoof about HBS starting its own cable TV station. The event marked the 25th anniversary of the HBS Show, an annual musical-comedy extravaganza... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)

editor.” Recs: Book: Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo; podcast: Heavyweight; TV show: We Are Lady Parts. Next move: New York, London, or Los Angeles. “I spent the summer meeting as many people as possible and learning about the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2004
News

Career Makeover

Maximum utilization of assets on hand is a key to business success. It’s also an operating philosophy for Jackie Davis (MBA ’83), a former executive who’s now a TV personality and interior designer. When Davis does a redecorating... View Details

Keywords: interior design; Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

Matt Higgins

across sports and entertainment, media and marketing, consumer, and technology industries – including several of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. Making a splash on ABC’s Emmy-award winning TV show Shark Tank, Matt joined the... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#60;#Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Rising Star

Dhlomo Photo courtesy Kanyi Dhlomo In 1995, as a 20-year-old university student, Khanyi Dhlomo (MBA ’07) became the first black newscaster for South Africa’s national TV network. At 22, she was appointed editor of a South African women’s... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

14 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

Tata-Corus is the largest out of India, and is done by a private sector entity of its own volition, away from the shadow of state influence. For these reasons, it bears noticing. The same euphoria surrounded Shenzhen-based TCL Multimedia when it acquired the French... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

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

Portrait Project

Vysh Ravikumaran

My dad had escaped a terrorist attack at the Colombo Airport that night. I couldn’t help but think how I would have felt if things turned out differently. I was an adamant nine-year-old who refused to say goodbye to him before his shift – he forced me to finish my... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

Illustrations by Josh Cochran When actor Jeffrey Tambor stepped to the podium at this year’s Golden Globe Awards to accept the honor of Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy, he did so for a show that didn’t premiere on HBO,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

01 Feb 1998
News

A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)

High above the gleaming ice surface of Boston's FleetCenter, Gord Kluzak (MBA '98) gazes down intently at the fast-paced action between the Boston Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins. No ordinary spectator, Kluzak is an Emmy Award–winning View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

Portrait Project

Dan Shanoff

lucrative—but unsatisfying—career, but what I'm actually good at, what I love, is entertaining everyone with words. Fortunately, that means I can work anywhere. My first choice is at home. Picture me cranking out "dramedy" scripts, 20something-angst novels,... 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, View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

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

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

unbundling that allows customers to pick and choose the content they consume (be it articles, music tracks, or airline tickets), Teixeira identifies the fueling factor in this case as "decoupling"—separating out activities that customers want from those that they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

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From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion... View Details

Leonard H. Goldenson

As head of the merged American Broadcasting Company and Paramount Pictures, Goldenson became known as the man who “wed television to the movies.” Goldenson was able to convince Disney Studios and Warner Brothers to produce TV shows for... View Details