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- 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
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
strengthen the catalog” and “If the catalogue is descriptive and for the masses, try its contents on a dozen or so of the common people, and see that they understand it.” 16 In contrast to brief ads in periodicals or newspapers created to... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
be achieved if the Argentine society underwent a cultural transformation, setting solidarity as a core shared value. Its association with the prestigious newspaper La Nación served as a valuable tool in attaining such an objective; it was... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
distinguished advertising work in North American newspapers and magazines. The awards focused on numerous elements including effective campaigns, innovative marketing research, 29 and, as Bok wrote, the attainment of “a higher standard of... View Details
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
electrical engineer who worked for Westinghouse. His entire side of the family was about technology and science. On the other side, I had this crazy mom who was trying to kill ‘em in the aisles with jokes about our lives. She wrote a humor column for the local View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
His journey began with books. "We had no newspaper or TV," he says, "so I started reading books that would give me an idea of the world outside. I knew I could not change my destiny to be born there, but I also knew that with hard work I... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
newspapers on campus: room by room, to vending machines, and to executive programs. Dressed in blue jeans, a chamois shirt, track shoes, and my college jacket, I moved quickly through campus. I cannot tell you how cold Boston got in those... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
daughter, and it faced the bracing, debilitating winds besetting the entire magazine and newspaper industry. Linda Johnson Rice now had to decide what to do with the company’s publications and brands. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
there was a question about whether that would be a detriment - people might think that I was buying the election. The local newspaper took a poll and asked, "Are you offended by Herb Kohl spending his own money to run for office?"... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
downturns. Q: What particular entrepreneurial activities seem to be making the best of the bad economic situation and seemed poised for future success? A: I can think of several. But you don't have to look very far; just read the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
studying the air they breathe when they are at the surface; we study them where they live, underwater. And yet that’s exactly what we do with humans. For all this time spent indoors, we tend to focus much more on outdoor air quality than on indoor air quality. Check... View Details
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
latest book, An Everyone Culture, published by the Harvard Business Press, will be out this spring, 2016. Meredith Clark Meredith D. Clark believes that everyone has a story to tell. A recovering newspaper journalist, Meredith spends her... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
satisfaction of being together when the newspapers announced that all of India’s villages were finally electrified. My father showed me the difference that enterprising leaders can make and helped me find my calling in educating business... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
newspaper to pursue novel-writing full-time. (Her two books, Object Lessons and One True Thing, subsequently became bestsellers.) In keeping with the conference's "personalizing success" theme, Quindlen spoke about her life's twin... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
General Georges Frederic Doriot, but I do know that in 2002, when I looked into the sparse literature on the history of venture capital, his name kept popping up. I found a bunch of newspaper and magazine profiles, a chapter on him in a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
power of his idea. But Rovell knew that T.V. and newspaper sports departments are flooded with resumes and demo tapes from thousands of wannabe reporters. To ensure that his material wouldn't be lost in the shuffle, he mailed it in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
"extremely proactive," says coffee consultant Milletto. "When Starbucks bought huge newspaper ads announcing its new line of organic coffees, she had a quick-print shop produce a storefront banner that said, 'Serving 5... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer