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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
"several influential newspapers and magazines and three TV networks pretty much held sway. Now there's the 24-hour news cycle - and the Internet, where every whiff of a rumor finds its way into the national bloodstream. There's a greater... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ventures they began, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Of those, take one area for closer inspection in search of the HBS imprint - broadcast and cable television. In the mid-1950s, Thomas S. Murphy (MBA '49) found himself managing an upstate New York radio station and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
looks just like a video game screen. Votes are tabulated and then relayed through an offensive coordinator. “What Twitch offers is a level of interactivity in the stream that doesn’t really exist anywhere else,” Rottenberg says. “You can stream to a computer monitor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
program that helps female CEOs learn how to raise venture capital financing. Guilty pleasure: Grey’s Anatomy. “Shonda Rhimes introduced two black characters in that show who became foundational to the storyline; I’ve learned TV is one of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
properties (Hasbro), contributed to taking an early e-commerce company in the educational toy space through an IPO and strategic exit (SmarterKids.com), and helped develop TV shows and product lines for major networks like PBS, Disney,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
geographic: Japanese stars who come to US cities with a large Japanese population—Los Angeles and New York, for example—can convert those populations into increased ticket and merchandise sales. (All major league teams share national TV... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
sidestep responsibility for their own viewing choices and actions. Recently, I met with Ellen DeGeneres's company about some possible new TV shows, one of which revolved around a scientist who, through experiments with monkeys, made some... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
he returned. The group focused on growth. LEGO building sets became increasingly complex. A line of LEGO-branded children's clothing debuted, and a division of the company pitched book, movie, and TV ideas. While the number of branded... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
meetings in San Francisco and switched on the TV to watch the news. For the next six hours I was transfixed,” he explains. “I don’t get emotional very often, but I was overwhelmed.” Back in Boston, fellow HBS faculty member Mike Luca had... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
face, Merton faced rows of reporters, banks of TV cameras, and flurries of firing strobe lights and calmly strove to put his complicated and abstract theory into accessible terms. Merton's research focuses on evaluating the financial risk... 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
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
stands out as the rare commodity that remains as lucrative in the good times as the bad, since we don’t switch off the radio—or stop watching the films or TV shows that license music and generate revenues—when the economy sours. The last... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
completion of his HBS degree marks a final step toward a long-held dream: to return to India and join the TVS Group, an umbrella for 32 holding companies that represents the country’s largest supplier of automotive parts. The $1.5 billion... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
pre-shift briefing room featured in (1970s TV hit) Hill Street Blues? “Be careful out there!” Perhaps that is the seventh sense we all need to adopt.” The tone of Jobc’s comment was that the issue does not require more laws: “Only... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
and kids’ homework, or the five minutes before your favorite TV show starts. The researchers confirmed that observation. “There’s an underlying inflexibility here,” Greenstein says. “What we observe suggests that households have fixed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
high-efficiency lighting will be from those same regions of the world, primarily Taiwan, South Korea, and China. Could semiconductor makers have foreseen that outsourcing one day would hurt the country’s ability to produce flat-screen TVs... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group
Junghyun Suh, Senior Manager, Samsung GSG Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Samsung Group is comprised of 25 affiliated companies spanning a wide range of industries, generating -in excess of $300B in annual revenues with global-market leading... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
is all too familiar and similar to how I felt seeing the human dignity stripped from Tamir Rice, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Brown, and many others. There were no iPhones and no social media then, though. We watched the story of James’ murder together on a... View Details