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Cathy Hutchinson

Prufrock Pictures (Film & TV production company based at CastleRock Entertainment/Warner Bros.) - Development Executive; RealNetworks, Inc. - Product Manager View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Sports; Telecommunications; Technology

actors, directors and other staff for television programming, but also creating and producing much of the programming itself. MCA went on to buy the Universal City studio and production lot, and also invested in some tourism enterprises. The company became so... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate

said. One example: Polaroid France. Launching the Polaroid camera in France, the company followed Levitt's standardized marketing approach. Problem was, French TV at the time was non-commercial, and Polaroid could not create the consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Feb 2016
News

In the ‘Spotlight’

spec for the TV series “The West Wing,” which was passed from a friend to one of the show’s producers. And with that, Singer’s new role as a screenwriter was launched. Following “The West Wing,” Singer wrote the screenplay for the film... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Jackie Adams

decade later, Adams also worked on feature stories, including a 48 Hours program on a child’s mysterious disappearance in New Mexico that won her an Emmy. Twenty-five years ago, the network TV landscape was about as tranquil as a Norman... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; journalism; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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

01 Dec 2013
News

Recognizing Potential

courses, via a closed-circuit TV system, offered by USC. This opportunity to use technology to further his education, long before the advent of online learning, enabled him to earn his master's degree before entering HBS. "HBX is an... View Details

Keywords: Internet; distance learning; online education; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

10 May 2023
News

Alumna Snags an Emmy

my internship at YouTube during HBS that I realized I could make a career out of these interests. The YouTube TV team was just starting to form in summer 2015 with a goal of reimagining cable TV and I was... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

10 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 10

Electronics: TV in an Era of Convergence From the late 1990s to 2006/2007, Samsung Electronics moved from one of 170 TV manufacturers to gain dominant TV market share year over... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities

TV and, to some extent, that’s true. But on the other hand, there are people screaming on TV about the minimum wage. It may be a good sign that Americans have discussions with that kind of passion about what... View Details

Keywords: April White; faculty research; writing

06 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

India Needs to Encourage Trade with China

withered away in response to the Chinese threat. Nor have major overseas ventures by the Chinese, in Europe and the West, been unambiguously successful. Shenzhen-based TCL Multimedia, among the world's largest TV makers, for instance,... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

01 Jun 2000
News

Of Dugouts and Sweatshops

America's TV networks prepared to broadcast the inspector's decision, Reich met with a roomful of lawyers. They strongly advised Reich that overturning the decision would endanger his nascent relations with the inspectors. Reich... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Mar 2009
News

An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

changes. As an illustration, when color television was invented, nobody would buy color TVs because no network was broadcasting in color. And networks would not broadcast in color because nobody owned color televisions. It took David... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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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

01 Mar 2015
News

In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)

another network has expressed interest.” TV limits at home? No firm hours. “My kids work so bloody hard in school that we’re pretty good about letting them decompress the way they need to—what bothers me more is that they watch reality... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

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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

13 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 13

understanding of these implications is essential for future policy analysis, particularly for issues relating to fostering innovation. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Kerr_Kerr_Lincoln_WP14_IPEFirms.pdf January 2015 IESE Insight From View Details