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Amos Hostetter, Jr.
With a few thousand dollars, Hostetter and a partner embarked on the development of a small cable company in the early sixties. Beginning with two small towns in Ohio, Continental Cablevision grew by providing better reception to rural communities. Over a three decade... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Michael D. Eisner
Eisner headed the second-largest media and entertainment company in the U.S. having grown its market value from $3 billion to approximately $70 billion in his first 14 years as CEO. Eisner has released animated movie hits such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Walter E. Disney
Disney was a pioneer in the family entertainment business. From his ground-breaking introduction of the animated cartoon Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse in 1928 to the launch of the first full-length animated film in 1937 (Snow White), Disney built a media... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Richard W. Clark
With his ageless persona, Clark had an uncanny ability to tap into the social consciousness of America’s youth. After having served in front of the camera for many years, most notably as host of American Bandstand, Clark formed his own production company which produced... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
A native of Aliceville, Alabama, Lisa Churchville attended HBS while on educational leave from IBM. Upon graduation, she changed paths and pursued her interest in broadcasting, working as an account executive for ABC before joining NBC in 1986. Having held various... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
owned interests in TV broadcasting and digital media, was carrying high levels of debt despite deep workforce and capital expenditure cuts. It was a situation that led its CFO to express doubt that Media General could remain in compliance... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
by Pete Blackshaw (MBA ’95) (Doubleday/Currency) In today’s Internet-driven world, customers have a great deal of power: on blogs, social-networking pages, and product-review sites, disgruntled customers can broadcast their complaints to... View Details
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
to loan Americans money. In the housing sector, an explosion of subprime lenders gave borrowers deals that were truly too good to be true, trapping them in impossible loans. In the retail sector, credit card agencies flooded mailboxes, offering easy entrée to the good... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
live broadcasts. And here was the person in charge of the world’s largest sports network saying things weren’t looking so sunny for the sports broadcasting model. “For the first time, it felt like there were some tangible numbers to what... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
recordings over to Congo, and Central African Republic, and South Sudan where we were helping to build radio stations and broadcast them out to the LRA. Basically, the songs were subverting the brainwashing that a lot of the commanders... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
Francisco 49ers football team, and Grousbeck, CEO of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise. The fund focuses on sports media content, an industry headed to $60 billion in revenue, according to the Causeway partnership. Higgins says the industry encompasses View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
of metrics to describe TV programs and broadcast advertising. Co-Founder and CEO Deb Roy said: "We want to measure audience engagement, not just media consumption." But what was the value of audience engagement? How could it be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
says. “They were watching five times the amount of video content as the average US consumer.” She took the numbers and the direct-to-consumer streaming plans to WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon, who had been planning to launch a linear View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
official International Olympic Committee (IOC) worldwide sponsors are said to pay $90 to $100 million each for the right to use the rings globally in their marketing efforts. These companies typically spend large additional amounts on advertisements to support their... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
without informing other departments, leading to waste and duplication. Respect among peers declined. Employees regularly went to the press to air grievances, reinforcing the BBC's culture of blame.— Rosabeth Moss Kanter BBC: In 1999, the British View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
cool Institutional Memory project that brings a whole new dimension to the HBS Centennial celebration. For NPR listeners, think StoryCorps comes to Soldiers Field, but with a twist. In addition to audio recordings, the project will capture video of alumni, faculty,... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
There's much more at stake in the Olympics than medals. Giant corporations are eager to tie huge marketing and advertising campaigns to the Olympic rings and ideals. NBC spent more than $600 million to win the broadcast rights for the... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
might be polluted. But 10 to 15 years ago, we began to test the water and became concerned that it might not be drinkable.” He now sees himself and his sisters as “stewards” of the historic acreage. Tim became even more worried last summer after seeing a Canadian View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
a search in the context of a single well-known case: the Federal Radio Commission's (FRC) 1927 decision not to expand the broadcast radio band. The standard account of this decision holds that incumbent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
pioneering inventions — from the first mass-produced economy car to the push-button radio — and breakthroughs in broadcasting and advertising made them wealthy and famous, as did their ownership of the Cincinnati Reds. View Details