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- 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
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Project. Your ads from 2009 include things like a print ad that says, "No one thinks they'll try to tear off their own skin. Meth will change that." And it shows an image of a white saint with a razor blade in it and blood. There are also about 20 View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
interest to customers (earthquakes, fires, conflicts at key border crossings) and to autonomously instruct the constellation to monitor them in a process known as “tipping and cueing.” The platform’s algorithms can interpret the radio... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
Focusing on miniaturization, Sony became the first mass marketer of small transistor radios and followed with the development of the first transistor-based microtelevision set. Then came the Walkman, the basic VCR, the CD, the CD-ROM, the... View Details
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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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Exploring the Galápagos
Islands, and already we’ve seen more wildlife unique to the islands than we ever could have dreamed. At what point does one rest on a trip like this? How many boobies, iguanas, sea lions, giant tortoises, sea turtles, penguins, sharks, whales, and dolphins are enough?... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
“The thing that most people don’t realize is that the music space is very data intensive, just as other asset-backed securities and investments are,” Soares explains. “You get huge sets of unstructured data that detail billions of rows of micro transactions—whether... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
advertisements by shifting from 30-second to 15-second advertisements, substituting radio for television advertising, or increasing the use of direct marketing, which gives more immediate sales impact. 4. Adjust product portfolios.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
radio station distribution and the roller coaster of trying to generate "Top 40" hits); and they acquired a 10 percent ownership stake in Island Records worth $30 million when the record company was acquired by PolyGram in 1989. U2 was... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
I can answer that question. This research also raises the issue of gray zones in organizations. The trading of mutual funds once the market has officially cleared, the retribution by music publishers to radio station programmers for... View Details
- Fast Answer
Historical Research - India
Service (FBIS) FBIS is a United States government agency which translates the text of daily radio and television broadcasts, newspapers and periodicals, government statements, books, and other sources of unrestricted information... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
that begged the U.S. government to regulate the radio market in the late 1920s, and firms that pushed the British state to finally put an end to piracy. In retrospect, of course, it all makes sense: for once entrepreneurs have carved out... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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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
- 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
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ventures they began, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Of those, take one area for closer inspection in search of the HBS imprint - broadcast and cable television. In the mid-1950s, Thomas S. Murphy (MBA '49) found himself managing an upstate New York View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
and 1920. First came the telegraph, which led to the development of the modern newspaper industry, and then radio and motion pictures, which together created the first real mass entertainment market. There followed a period of evolution,... View Details
- 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