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Skilled fingers required for Philcos - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Chapter Images The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next Skilled fingers required for Philcos ca. 1926 Phico Radio and Television Corporation Chas P. Mills Skilled fingers deftly assemble... View Details
- November 1983
- Case
Cablevision of Boston
Keywords: Television Entertainment; Business and Government Relations; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Stevenson, Howard H. "Cablevision of Boston." Harvard Business School Case 384-130, November 1983.
- August 2000 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
STAR TV in 1993
Describes STAR TV, a pan-Asian satellite network that has standardized its strategy across its target markets. STAR's acquisition by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation provides an opportune point to analyze whether the viability of this strategy is likely to increase or... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Adaptation; Globalization; Television Entertainment; Telecommunications Industry
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Timothy J. Keohane. "STAR TV in 1993." Harvard Business School Case 701-012, August 2000. (Revised August 2005.)
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
changes. As an illustration, when color television was invented, nobody would buy color TVs because no network was broadcasting in color. And networks would not broadcast in color because nobody owned color televisions. It took David... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Narrative Arc
RIGHT AT HOME For Ty Kim, a long career in journalism and filmmaking driven by the power of story (Photo: Christina Gandolfo) When Ty Kim (MBA 2000) joined the television news magazine 60 Minutes, the correspondent Ed Bradley gave him a... View Details
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Donna Khalife
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning my MBA at HBS was critical in giving me the right environment to explore my passions and gain new skills to pursue those passions whole-heartedly. How has your HBS experience shaped your career path? My HBS... View Details
Richard R. Deupree
sponsoring the first radio soap opera - “The Puddle Family” in 1932. In 1939, just five months after the introduction of television in the U.S., Procter & Gamble aired its first TV commercial (for Ivory soap) during the first View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
L. Lowry Mays
Beginning with one small radio station in 1972, Mays went on to create a massive media empire under the name Clear Channel Communications. Mays was particularly aggressive in acquiring new entities as deregulation spread to the radio and telecommunications industries.... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
John W. Kluge
sale of substantial and wide ranging assets ranging from his television and radio broadcasting interests to outdoor advertising, paging, cellular telephone and entertainment businesses. View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Michael R. Bloomberg
expansive financial coverage. He parlayed his initial success on Wall Street into a full-service financial news media empire including radio stations, television programs, and Internet coverage before becoming the Mayor of New York City. View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- Profile
Monica Dodi
As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi says these emerging consumer markets for women and families will... View Details
John C. Malone
formed joint partnerships to build a combined cable telephone system in Britain. Under Malone’s leadership, TCI became the #2 cable television operation in the United States and grew into a media powerhouse that he eventually sold to... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 28 Feb 2020
- News
Kelly Campbell Named President of Hulu
Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Walt Disney Co. announced that it was promoting Kelly Campbell (MBA 2005) to president of the streaming service Hulu, the Los Angeles Times reports. With 30 million subscribers and a host of network View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
industry as another catalyst was gathering critical mass: the dynamic pairing of television and sports. Neil R. Austrian (MBA '68), president of the National Football League, explains: "The 1958 Colts-Giants overtime game was the NFL's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
Robert L. Johnson
Johnson created the first and only cable television station with programming for and about black Americans. Though he struggled to gain a subscriber base in the early eighties, Johnson persevered and built a viable enterprise. When he... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
C. Kemmons Wilson
though operated by a different owner, would be nearly an exact replica of the others, with such amenities as air conditioning, color television and a swimming pool. Because of Wilson’s strict standards and intensive licensee training... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
New England Conservatory, piano; Yale, psychobiology Speaks: French, Hebrew HBS Show: musical director (2002); writer (2003) Last Summer: associate producer, A Hole in One, Beech Hill Films Previous Career: engagement manager, McKinsey’s Media and Entertainment... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. When HBS opened its first virtual classroom in 2014, the School had just started to experiment with online education. Located at Boston’s public television... View Details
Edward J. Noble
Noble founded the entity that eventually became Life Savers Incorporated and grew it from a failing mint producer into a global business, with sales of $20 million in the mid-1950s. Noble also founded the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and shepherded it to a... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- March 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Time Warner Inc. vs. The Walt Disney Company (A): Pulling the Plug
Describes negotiation impasse between Time Warner, Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. over the retransmission of the ABC Network over Time Warner's cable systems. More broadly, the case depicts the shifting balance of power between content creators and distributors in the... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Internet and the Web; Television Entertainment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Telecommunications Industry
Watkins, Michael D., and Cate Reavis. "Time Warner Inc. vs. The Walt Disney Company (A): Pulling the Plug." Harvard Business School Case 801-186, March 2001. (Revised August 2001.)