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- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
major DRAM memory chip makers like Samsung and Hynix in Korea, and Powerchip in Taiwan have already stopped quoting prices until they can assess the impact of the earthquake on their supply chains. Anisotropic conductive film is a key material used in the manufacture... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
information here. Every four years I’m inspired by the Olympics (a pioneering example of globalization, come to think of it) and its motto, Citior! Altior! Fortior!, but never so much as to stray from my sluggish habits. I am ready to compete in the next “Olumpics,”... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
deftly weaves in rich storylines from her experience as a psychotherapist—not just to entertain or teach us about others but to beautifully and subtly teach us even more about ourselves.” —Dr. Darria Long Gillespie (MBA 2005), ER doctor, 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
- 10 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Working with Professors at HBS
that media was the right one for me. Second year I finally got to take Anita Elberse’s Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries class. And I loved it! I also pitched an idea for a case, about Shonda Rhimes, one of the most successful View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
incredible," he says. He points to China as a prime example of the league's international potential realized. Thanks to a decades-long campaign, the country is now the NBA's largest international market, with more than 100 employees, wide View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
merchandise categories or sub-categories online. Best Buy, for example, allots floor space only to higher-end televisions—commodity-level TVs are mostly merchandised online. Virtually all major retailers have rolled out or are... View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
several levels—across countries, across products, across marketing mix elements, across different vehicles within a marketing mix element (e.g., TV versus Internet for advertising). Each decision requires some specific considerations."... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
customers." He cites the example of a major hotel chain that asks guests to complete a multiple-question satisfaction survey via their room's TV set during their stay. When one guest answered "extremely dissatisfied" to all... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
executive at Nickelodeon, the children's TV channel, who successfully managed her career while coping with a high-risk pregnancy. The other was Estée Lauder, founder of the cosmetics empire that bears her name. While the traditional HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
problem in geopolitics, it’s not going to be by begging countries to leave our weakness alone. We have to resolve the weakness. RDT: The information landscape used to be something that was controlled by each country. It was ours. We had a couple of newspapers, View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
“When I first started as a TV writer, I just wanted someone to hire me. Last night I went to my fifth Emmys. The secret is that I would pay people to do this. I still pinch myself.” View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
than ever with a full calendar and long to-do list. Looking back on 25 years in broadcasting, most of my assumptions about the consumers’ relationships with their TVs have been premature. Who would believe that convergence, the mantra of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
drug trade in North America for a new TV documentary series. Local Color by Gwen Keane (PMD 50) (High Tide Publications) Based on her experiences growing up in a farm community in the 1950s, Keane describes an undeveloped area where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
restorative justice project sponsored in part by the Carter Center.) Pressing on, Langford asks if any of the students remember the Meth Project campaign. There’s a good chance they do, given that it comprised 26,000 radio spots, 23,000 View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
for others has been taking longer and longer (more off days, more zombie TV watching and internet browsing, and feeling too fatigued to exercise). Weather does not help as gray, dark, and colder days increase.” His employees, likewise,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
companies perform sales, marketing, and product definition work, while eastern companies in Asia like his perform the engineering and manufacturing work. Confronted with commoditization pressure, Wu is presented with the opportunity to license a major View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne