Media Businesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2021
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Action Plan: Whole Sale

of Black-owned and sustainable brands the company stocks, highlighting those changes on TikTok and Clubhouse, the new audio-focused social media platform. “Beauty...has the ability to articulate a brand promise or personality.”... View Details

Keywords: April White; ecommerce; bricks and mortar; marketing; beauty

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

social connection by taking a real lunch break. For example, take a Zoom yoga class with a friend, or check in with a mentor/mentee, or enjoy tuna melts with your family downstairs. Finally, go untouchable from all news media and social... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak

really good learning experience, but consulting never felt like my calling.” On her business card now: “Climber, ultrarunner, adventurer, photographer.” Home is : “An apartment in Boulder that now serves as base camp.” By next spring she... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress

international film festivals. The foundation has also established dynamic relationships with media companies such as NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Netflix, and HBO. Talented and Together Throughout his career, in a variety of View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

26 May 2016
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Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971

and then came to HBS, where he graduated with distinction. Horn thrived as Perenchio’s business associate and eventually was asked—by producer Lear—to oversee the creative side of the business. Initially met with skepticism by the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2006
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One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

HICKS Illustration by Joe Ciardiello Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97) arrived at HBS with ten years of experience as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett in Chicago. Disillusioned with the trend toward “unbundling” agencies into different functions and View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

07 Nov 2014
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The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)

learning, for change. After graduating from Yale and Harvard Business School, I knew that I had to get into the industry that had impacted me as a young woman, so I could ultimately use media to impact other... View Details

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

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman

recognition in the field I was pursuing." Today, as CFO of a hot new Internet company called Excite@Home, the self-described "introspective" executive is getting plenty of attention. Goldman is busy helping Excite@Home become what he... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

28 May 2019
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Case Study: Building the Base

Illustration by Edmon de Haro Illustration by Edmon de Haro The idea for the Portland, Oregon–based digital media startup News Bling was born out of the late-night hours of November 8, 2016, when Nupur Patel (MBA 2017) rubbed the fog of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2024
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The Road Less Traveled

transport (less than 1,000 pounds). That same year, he launched Micromobility Industries, a media company that hosts webinars and global conferences, from Amsterdam to Southern California, and publishes news and reviews about the latest... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; illustrations by WACSO; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller

Supermarkets in Australia, and the media company ITV. Unsuccessful: The Conservative Party, where he served as an MP from 1996 to 2005. “While I was there, we became very good at losing elections, and politics in the UK is binary. Either... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

09 May 2013
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Road Trip

national media attention." A principal at Clean Line Energy Partners in Houston, Michael Skelly (MBA 1991), who believes that "MBAs need to 'get out more,'" hopes to get the students to Houston to "introduce them around town and have a... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management

01 Dec 2020
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Bounce Back from a Blunder

Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong If mistakes are bound to happen—like death and perhaps taxes—then leaders need to let them be seen, says Victoria Montgomery Brown (MBA 2003), CEO and cofounder of the digital View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over

and so forth. The ever-intensifying social media buzz around the Cup can heighten interest and exposure, but it also can create a lot of distracting "noise" that marketers can't control. What's in it for Brazil? If there's logistical... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

ultracompetitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist. This book helps business leaders expand strategic... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll

in enterprise development through our incubator units in South Africa and Chile, which support over 220 freestanding businesses providing jobs to some 13,500 people. In South Africa, I’m also very proud that we have the largest workplace... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

01 Oct 2000
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Books

a business landscape replete with possibilities, they select a single modern-day example -- the electronic computer -- as the focus of their study. Baldwin and Clark argue that the computer industry could not have experienced its... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand

rock scene, and last summer's launch of Blaze, a monthly that covers hip hop and caters to 12-to 24-year-olds, Vibe/Spin Ventures now reaches 1.5 million readers. Martha as Mentor As important as circulation figures are, Clinkscales realizes that expanding the Vibe... View Details