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- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
that could fit into TV soundbites. And, of course, I had to know my numbers. I couldn't let my HBS classmates watch me get called out by Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary for not knowing them! What advice do you have for entrepreneurs about... View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
want to go out there and change perceptions. We’re going to invest x millions of dollars in a TV campaign.’” In nonprofits, the monetary resources are limited, Pitter-Armand says, but the potential is not. In December 2016, the Girls... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
budget? How do I manage those costs?" he said. "I didn't think of it as interesting or relevant, and it was both." While at HBS, d'Arbeloff found an internship through TV executive and HBS alum Stephen Chao (MBA 1981), and when he... View Details
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
leadership, working my up to CMO, and then President and CEO roles. I worked on educational toys and entertainment properties (Hasbro), contributed to taking an early e-commerce company in the educational toy space through an IPO and strategic exit (SmarterKids.com),... View Details
Matt Higgins
across sports and entertainment, media and marketing, consumer, and technology industries – including several of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. Making a splash on ABC’s Emmy-award winning TV show Shark Tank, Matt joined the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Rising Star
Dhlomo Photo courtesy Kanyi Dhlomo In 1995, as a 20-year-old university student, Khanyi Dhlomo (MBA ’07) became the first black newscaster for South Africa’s national TV network. At 22, she was appointed editor of a South African women’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
executive coach who has garnered plaudits from numerous corporate leaders and from celebrities such as Larry King, Woody Allen, and David Letterman (“he’s as good as Houdini”). With a Ph.D. in social psychology, Randal is a singer-songwriter who plays five instruments.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
can bring everything to a halt.” Djelic adds to the pressure by placing himself very much in the public eye. “Communicating is a big part of my job,” he explains. “In this small country, we have 350 television stations serving a population of ten million. I do a lot of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
person to create a manufactured product. In 2015, this movement will begin to separate itself from its DIY and science-project roots to truly become a new industrial revolution and a global economic force.” Media: RIP, TV Jason Kilar (MBA... View Details
- Portrait Project
Vysh Ravikumaran
My dad had escaped a terrorist attack at the Colombo Airport that night. I couldn’t help but think how I would have felt if things turned out differently. I was an adamant nine-year-old who refused to say goodbye to him before his shift – he forced me to finish my... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
owned interests in TV broadcasting and digital media, was carrying high levels of debt despite deep workforce and capital expenditure cuts. It was a situation that led its CFO to express doubt that Media General could remain in compliance... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
multinational company with operations in 26 countries and numerous international partnerships. In 2017, the company had more than half a billion mobile, fixed, and TV customers. During case discussions, students explore Vodafone’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
Manby (MBA '85) Courtesy Joel Manby Web Extra Undercover Boss: Watch the Joel Manby Episode As I reached out to shut off my alarm at 3 a.m. — wake-up time for my first day as a street washer — I wondered, “What have I gotten myself into?” Approached by CBS for its... View Details
- Portrait Project
Dan Shanoff
lucrative—but unsatisfying—career, but what I'm actually good at, what I love, is entertaining everyone with words. Fortunately, that means I can work anywhere. My first choice is at home. Picture me cranking out "dramedy" scripts, 20something-angst novels,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
manages a number of other jazz musicians, including Wynton's father, pianist Ellis Marsalis. Arrendell's company, The Management Ark, Inc., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is his headquarters for negotiating clients' contracts, record and publishing deals, View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
France and is dominated by French sailors — is like no other event on this earth. In an age of celebrity “heroes” and “reality” TV shows, Wilson and his fellow Vendée participants (this year including two women) engage in a competition as... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
News (February, 13, 2011). Therein lies the broad impact of his “Yella Fella” TV ads, in which Rane stars as the yellow-clad cowboy who saves the West from rotting wood with his pressure-treated pine, known as YellaWood. “They'll probably... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Commemorating a Milestone
for women and men in the business world (not to mention society at large) will be equal. When that day comes, the notion of "glass ceilings" or "old-boy networks" will be quaint curiosities, much like today's Mad Men TV series. Helping... View Details
Keywords: Meta
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
with an audience of some 350 people. Biondi said that future success in the entertainment industry will depend on senior executives' ability to predict trends from new technology. He reminded participants that TV executives, for example,... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute