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- September 1995 (Revised April 1999)
- Case
Exporting American Culture
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
A large entertainment company, extensively criticized for producing violent, offensive, and anti-social material, is considering whether to sell its material to a semi-illegal operation that is beaming satellite TV into Turkey. The opportunity raises many questions... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Media; Business and Community Relations; Opportunities; Social Issues; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Jerry Useem. "Exporting American Culture." Harvard Business School Case 396-055, September 1995. (Revised April 1999.)
- June 1994
- Case
STAR TV (E)
By: J. Peter Williamson and Michael Y. Yoshino
Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry
Williamson, J. Peter, and Michael Y. Yoshino. "STAR TV (E)." Harvard Business School Case 394-222, June 1994.
- October 1977 (Revised May 1993)
- Teaching Note
WJAC (B): Financing a Growing Organization, Teaching Note
- fall 2001
- Article
News Is Strategic in the Newspaper Business
By: Joseph L. Bower
Bower, Joseph L. "News Is Strategic in the Newspaper Business." The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University Nieman Reports 55, no. 3 (fall 2001): 82–83.
Herbert J. Siegel
Siegel built the once, small boat maker into one of the largest and most powerful media holding companies. Acquiring two independent television stations with the Chris-Craft acquisition in 1968, Siegel sold the boat business in 1980 and pursued a series of shrewd media... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Lee Shubert
Shubert and his brothers broke the Klaw-Erlanger Syndicate which controlled 95 percent of all theaters in the United States at the turn of the century. Beginning with a few theaters in New York and Connecticut, the Shuberts went on to build one of the largest theater... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Mervyn E. Griffin, Jr.
Griffin co-produced and owned his own talk show - “The Merv Griffin Show,” which during the early 1980s was aired on 115 stations in the U.S. and Canada. “Wheel of Fortune,” Griffin’s most successful show, was by 1984 appearing on 181 stations and earning $92,000 per... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 20 Jun 2011
- News
Hostile Takeover - by Aliens?
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, shows business leaders how to create and maintain a defensive... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Ronnie and Larry Ackman (MBA 1963) and produced by New York public broadcaster WNET. The three episodes in the series premiered on WNET and are now being offered to some 400 business schools in the United States and Great Britain “in hope... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
risk-reducing "portfolios" of causes instead of focusing on one. In contrast, she noted, "at one time, the Rockefeller Foundation helped revolutionize university education, the Ford Foundation helped create the Public Broadcasting System,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 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
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
to loan Americans money. In the housing sector, an explosion of subprime lenders gave borrowers deals that were truly too good to be true, trapping them in impossible loans. In the retail sector, credit card agencies flooded mailboxes, offering easy entrée to the good... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
Takafumi Horie, the thirty-three-year-old CEO of Livedoor, had become Japan's anti-establishment enfant terrible: rich, hard charging, willing to take big risks such as the ultimately failed attempt to acquire a controlling interest in Nippon View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
official International Olympic Committee (IOC) worldwide sponsors are said to pay $90 to $100 million each for the right to use the rings globally in their marketing efforts. These companies typically spend large additional amounts on advertisements to support their... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
without informing other departments, leading to waste and duplication. Respect among peers declined. Employees regularly went to the press to air grievances, reinforcing the BBC's culture of blame.— Rosabeth Moss Kanter BBC: In 1999, the British View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 2024
- Working Paper
What Is Newsworthy? Theory and Evidence
By: Luis Armona, Matthew Gentzkow, Emir Kamenica and Jesse M. Shapiro
We study newsworthiness in theory and practice. We focus on situations in which a news outlet observes the realization of a state of the world and must decide whether to report the realization to a consumer who pays an opportunity cost to consume the report. The... View Details
Armona, Luis, Matthew Gentzkow, Emir Kamenica, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "What Is Newsworthy? Theory and Evidence." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32512, May 2024.
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Roku 2021
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-480. This case is used to explore the strategic concept of "look forward, reason back." Roku in 2021 is trying to figure out the future of television and streaming media. Students are asked to provide a vision for television and... View Details
- February 1982 (Revised December 1991)
- Teaching Note
Quabbin Cablevision Co., Teaching Note
By: Henry B. Reiling
Teaching Note for (9-282-003). View Details