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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) In July 2016, after visiting relatives in Georgia, I was watching CNN in the airport and saw graphic reports on the death of Alton Sterling, shot... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Our New Look Welcome to your new HBS Alumni Bulletin. Over the past several months, we've done a deep dive—polling you about your likes and dislikes, reconsidering both what we write and how we write it, and totally reinventing the way the magazine looks. We want this... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
can be derived from the phenomenon. To gather alumni thoughts and takeaways, we went on social media with a question: “How can other brands replicate the breakout success of Pokemon GO or can they?” Here are a sampling of their responses:... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted it would fail. Former chairman... View Details
- 16 Dec 2019
- News
Jeff Shell to Become CEO of NBCUniversal
Current chairman of NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment Jeff Shell (MBA 1991) will take over as CEO of the media company on January 1, reports the Los Angeles Times. In a statement to the Times, Brian Roberts, the current CEO of... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
YouTube's Rising Star
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
A Streamlined Time Inc.
vice president of Time Inc. and president of brands, laid out his vision for a more efficient and innovative future for the 94-year-old media company: “There’s clearly some disruption going on in the marketplace and we’re making some... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
An Encore for the MBA Oath
300 members of the Class of 2010 who gathered in Burden Auditorium on Class Day for a pledge ceremony. The students were joined by several hundred family members and friends. Last year, roughly half of the Class of 2009 signed the oath, an event that generated... View Details
Keywords: MBA Oath
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
Above: photo by Brian Doben You’ve had a varied career in book publishing. What are some of the biggest changes you have seen in your 15 years in the industry? Milena Alberti: Like so many media categories, the biggest change for trade... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Hollywood and Humility
WICZYK AND SATCHU: With Hollywood’s major studios increasingly risk-averse, a pair of HBS classmates finds a winning niche. Media Rights Capital (MRC) founders and co-CEOs Mordecai (“Modi”) Wiczyk and Asif Satchu (both MBA ’99) are among... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
committee members Glenn Close, Richard Gere, Liam Neeson, Tim Robbins, and Susan Sarandon, among many others.) In 2009, Apkon oversaw the opening of the JBFC’s $15 million, 27,000-square-foot Media Arts Lab that offers classes in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Eye in the Storm
business-model and financial challenges confronting traditional media everywhere. Schocken is a free-market, pro-business advocate who is “a singular force in Israeli journalism on issues such as free speech, equal rights for Israeli... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
marketplace matching educational institutions with student-loan lenders and lenders with secondary markets. Caroline A. Oberg (MBA '98) of ODAC, Inc., a software solution transforming the advertising media procurement process. Kristin S.... View Details
Keywords: Spingboard
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
Steve Silk (MBA 1978), shown here with his Smith Brothers actors, is a master at fashioning turnarounds. SILK & HIS BROS: "Iconic brands like Smith Brothers get instantaneous consumer and media respect." Photos courtesy of Smith Brothers... View Details
- 28 Jul 2021
- News
Squarely in Their Corner
“personal board of directors,” that includes Sarah Harden (MBA 1999), CEO of the Reese Witherspoon media company Hello Sunshine. The two worked together at Fox Networks Group, where Ahuja helped launch Hulu while Harden served as senior... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Start Your Engines
to build on as Formula One’s relatively new chairman and CEO. Liberty Media bought F1 from the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in an $8 billion deal finalized in January 2017. Carey joined as CEO soon after. In an interview with... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Dress Code
around each user. Leveraging AI and machine learning, the app uses a sophisticated algorithm to streamline and personalize a dynamically adaptive online feed of potential purchases based on yes or no responses to simple questions, getting smarter with every answer.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
Barry Johnson (MBA ’89) has over 20 years of business experience as an entrepreneur and corporate executive with media giants such as the Walt Disney Company, Bertelsmann, and Sony Music Corporation. With expertise in public-private... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
often knew more than they did about the history and culture of the faraway lands they had visited, thanks to what I’d read and watched while growing up. Understanding the universal, equalizing, connecting power of media was a turning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
Media Partners, and China’s state-sponsored Shanghai Media Group. Hollywood’s commitment to VR storytelling will eventually usher the technology into the mainstream, Fan says. “It was never a question that... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos