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  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

"Multimedia and the Boundaryless Organization." With the creation of services such as online newspapers and television home shopping, information has become a commodity itself, replacing physical products and services. Associate Professor... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
  • July 2001 (Revised September 2005)
  • Case

USA TODAY: Pursuing the Network Strategy (B)

By: Michael L. Tushman, Michael J. Roberts and David Kiron
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Integration; Internet and the Web; Organizational Design; Groups and Teams; Newspapers; Innovation and Invention; Journalism and News Industry
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  • 10 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote

McBoatface. Overruling the public’s wishes, NERC named the craft after British naturalist Sir David Attenborough. The public was outraged; newspaper editorials decried the lack of democracy, and citizens protested the unfairness of it all... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

is not specific to any function, firm, or industry. Instead, it draws on an eclectic collection of materials: HBS cases as well as readings from academic journals, popular literature, and current newspapers and magazines. CCMO is divided... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • November 2006 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Hewlett-Packard Company: The War Within

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Jay W. Lorsch, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Eliot Sherman
In September 2006 it was revealed that the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) had been carrying out an extended investigation of its own employees, board members, and journalists outside the company. The investigation was launched in response to a series of leaks to the... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Communication Technology; Conflict and Resolution; Newspapers; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus

business when I was only 27.” Batten is a visionary entrepreneur and business leader who built Landmark Communications, Inc., based in Norfolk, Virginia, into a multimedia enterprise consisting of dozens of newspapers and specialty... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
  • 17 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

yet donors are paid according to the desirability of their physical and mental qualities—at least $2,500, but sometimes much more. Spar showed an ad that appeared in Ivy League campus newspapers that offered $50,000 to women who were at... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • Web

Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising

scrapbooks—whether for stamps, coins, or newspaper clippings—had developed into a favorite nineteenth-century pastime and spawned its own industry. Collectors could refer to how-to books on the art of scrapbook making, use manufactured... View Details
  • 10 Oct 2018
  • News

Building Paths to Success

immediately. Responding to a newspaper article about the bankrupt ABC Learning child-care chain, Traill led to SVA to buy its nearly 700 centers, many in low socioeconomic areas, with an alliance of four nonprofits passionate about early... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

commission rate paid by magazine and newspaper publishers to agencies. These practices served to discourage price competition among agencies and facilitated the bundling of services by full-service advertising firms. After complaints from... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

International, a company publishing 70 editions of its free newspaper in 20 countries. Metro had been a pioneer in the free newspaper market, fighting incumbent publishers distributing traditional paid-for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

A Bid for the Future

When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Ink

which he or she doesn’t. For anyone who follows coverage of campaigns on television or in newspapers or online, this is the secret decoder ring for how that process works.” Insider’s Pick This Town by Mark Leibovich “Leibovich understands... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Baker’s back

community can also use workstations in this area to access research tools, including Bloomberg, Thomson StreetEvents, and S&P Ratings Direct. For those who would rather read a newspaper than power up a laptop, there are nineteen... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 03 Jun 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

is described in a new book by Will Hutton, titled The World We're In (Little, Brown, 2002), from which excerpts (emailed to me by a U.K. manager) were published in England's Guardian newspaper last month. First, work less but work... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

“The question can be better understood as how people learn from qualitative information. If you think about it, it’s not that people communicate by numbers, but by natural language, by stories. A newspaper article is not just numbers.”... View Details
  • March 2024
  • Case

Katharine Graham: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the life of Katharine Graham from housewife to publisher of the Washington Post. Born into a family of wealth, Graham described herself as a “doormat wife” after she married Phil Graham and stayed at home to raise their children. His unexpected death... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Work-Life Balance; News; Newspapers; Media; Gender; Publishing Industry
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  • 28 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

centuries-old comparison. The best endorsement for our article is the way in which it has been disseminated. In India, it has spread by word of mouth and been reprinted in numerous newspapers and magazines. In China, one is hard pressed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608138 Tribune Company, 2007 Harvard Business School Case 208-148 This case describes the proposed acquisition of Tribune Company by Sam Zell in 2007. Tribune Company is one of the largest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace