Radio - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Jo Tan (MBA 2021) Draws on Experience

it to Section E.” Jo is frequently inspired to create and to share by a quote from American radio personality Ira Glass, in which he observes that people start doing creative work because they have good taste, but get discouraged when... View Details

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

studied, example of this phenomenon is listener-supported public radio. It is costly for public radio stations to coordinate their viewers so that they all contribute at a sufficient level, and stations put considerable effort into... View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

Bonnie (MBA '90), CEO of CNET, whose Web sites—not to mention a radio station and several print magazines—provide a wealth of information to technology buffs and buyers alike. Founded in 1992, CNET has fared so well in the marketplace... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Mar 2018
News

Case Study: On the Record

(MBA 1977) Yes, Gold Rush Vinyl should take risks and eliminate supply bottlenecks to speed delivery times. “Rush Vinyl” is two-thirds of the name, and speed is vital. Ever-volatile college radio playlists now track song plays daily. This... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

And—oh, yes—Rovell was just a kid in his teens. Nevertheless, he launched a business-of-sports talk show on Northwestern University's student radio station, WNUR. His "producer" (actually, a roommate) aggressively pursued... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

27 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant

glasses, hard hats, N95 masks, jean jackets, and radio devices. The students were excited about the stylish JSW-branded jean jackets, which we were allowed to keep! Dock for ferry ride to JSW Steel Our first stop in the tour was the... View Details

10 Mar 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vika Wasyliw

Engineer on the Radio Frequency team. Starry is a start-up internet service provider headquartered in downtown Boston that uses fixed wireless broadband technology. When I worked there, Starry was in a phase of massive growth following... View Details

07 Nov 2014
News

The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)

What’s the story behind MOGUL? “When I first moved to America, I did not know a word of English, but it was by watching films, reading books, and listening to the radio that I ended up learning how to speak the language. Through that... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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

01 Mar 2008
News

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

broadcasting, flip the channel to FOX. If you want even more reinforcement, there’s talk radio and the blogs. Nor is there any willingness to talk about real costs. We are now fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that are costing nearly... View Details

Keywords: Government

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Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

online with Google Ice and Refrigeration (H.S. Rich & Co., 1892-1853). Note: issues from July – December, 1913 online with Google Telegraph and Telephone Age (later Wire & Radio Communications ) (New York, 1883-1965). Note: issues from... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

firms employ to evaluate opportunities. Cathy Hughes, founder and chairman of Radio One, the largest African American– owned and operated broadcast company in the United States and the subject of an HBS case study, spoke at the opening... View Details

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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Annual Report, 1949. Corporate Reports Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Show caption Hide caption The company also sought out sponsorship of the arts through The Theatre Guild on the Air , a weekly one-hour radio drama... View Details

06 May 2025
Blog Post

The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet

startups like Rock Pore, founded in 2020. We were particularly excited by Space Solar’s ambitious vision to make solar energy viable as baseload power. The technology involves satellites that convert sunlight into radio waves and beam... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Code name: Miesiąc

KOR), a group of Polish intellectuals banded together in support of workers across the country, the first time the two groups had formed such an alliance. In the fall of 1976 one of Waldemar’s classmates heard about KOR through the static of View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

16 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

scholars, and others. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308092 Clear Channel 2006 Harvard Business School Case 208-083 The Board of Directors of Clear Channel Communications, a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2021
News

Growing Home

broadcasting station. Ibaraki prefecture had only one broadcasting station, including TV and radio, so that studio had a monopoly on the airwaves. So we bought a station from Asahi Shimbun newspaper company and turned it around, making it both an internet media... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

06 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 6

Fire Unprofitable Customers? Willy C. Shih and Halle Alicia TeccoHarvard Business School Case 610-077 Pandora Radio is at a crossroads. Founder Tim Westergren has just been told by a well known VC to get rid of his unprofitable customers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

internally. Program developers felt they were at the mercy of broadcast commissioners and that they were being treated unfairly, having to endure a long bureaucratic process that ended in their show proposals being rejected more than half the time. The View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

automation, and radiation. Georges F. Doriot Research Collection, 1928-1952 This small collection of research materials kept by Georges F. Doriot while teaching at Harvard Business School includes correspondence and research related to aviation, atomic energy, and... View Details

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