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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
Lew R. Wasserman
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
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
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
- 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
- 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
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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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Sir David Clementi Named BBC Chairman
for TV licences for over-75s. In news, the BBC has to innovate to meet the digital demands of a new generation of consumers. And in entertainment, where it has long been used to being the biggest beast in the jungle, there are new... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Self-awareness is important if you want to be a good general manager
[classmates] talk to me and ask me questions about aspects of China,” says Yuan. “It’s hard to get a holistic view of the country by reading articles or watching TV programs. I try to give them a 360-degree view of China.” As career vice... View Details