broadcasting - Publications - Faculty & Research

May 2005
Teaching Note

Random House (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-704-438). View Details

Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

June 2004 (Revised June 2006)
Case

Scientific-Atlantia (S-A), a leading manufacturer of cable TV equipment, is confronting strategic challenges in mid-2004. For decades, cable operators have faced high switching costs that have locked them into exclusive supply relationships with either S-A or its... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Structures; Television Entertainment; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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April 2001
Teaching Note

CNBC.com (A): NBC Incubates E-business TN

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Brooke Bartletta

Teaching Note for (9-300-090). View Details

Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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May 1996 (Revised June 1996)
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Dennis Hightower: New Horizons

By: Ashish Nanda

Named president of Disney TV and Telecommunications, Dennis Hightower has to yet again come in as an outsider and take charge. The magnitude of challenge is much larger than in 1987, and the situation facing him is subtly different. View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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17 Dec 2017
News

How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

recordings over to Congo, and Central African Republic, and South Sudan where we were helping to build radio stations and broadcast them out to the LRA. Basically, the songs were subverting the brainwashing that a lot of the commanders... View Details

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

Historians have the wisdom granted by time. But for researchers trying to understand current events, especially in the helter-skelter Internet age, the world can change completely before the digital ink dries on the manuscript. That problem certainly confronts Stephen... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Media & Broadcasting; Media & Broadcasting; Media & Broadcasting

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

that when users of social media platforms are motivated to signal their virtue, it leads them to behave badly,” she says. Yet her results suggest that people expect greater social rewards for broadcasting the truth. “Our results suggest... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

television. We were a cable television company. So the first thing is we had to create a unique distribution model. Many of them still watched broadcast TV, so first we had to convince Viacom to allow us to acquire View Details

04 Mar 2009
Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

to loan Americans money. In the housing sector, an explosion of subprime lenders gave borrowers deals that were truly too good to be true, trapping them in impossible loans. In the retail sector, credit card agencies flooded mailboxes, offering easy entrée to the good... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values

ERGs demonstrate an organization’s commitment to ensuring employees feel a sense of belonging. Also, in the absence of demographic data — for example, data on sexual orientation — an established ERG broadcasts to potential employees that... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Jan 2021
Working Paper Summaries

Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the US Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt; Media & Broadcasting; Media & Broadcasting

November 1983
Case

Cablevision of Boston

By: Howard H. Stevenson

Keywords: Television Entertainment; Business and Government Relations; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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2025
Working Paper

Balancing Engagement and Polarization: Multi-Objective Alignment of News Content Using LLMs

By: Mengjie Cheng, Elie Ofek and Hema Yoganarasimhan

We study how media firms can use LLMs to generate news content that aligns with multiple objectives—making content more engaging while maintaining a preferred level of polarization/slant consistent with the firm’s editorial policy. Using news articles from The New York... View Details

Keywords: Large Language Models; Content Creation; Media; Polarization; Generative Ai; Direct Preference Optimization; AI and Machine Learning; News; Perspective; Digital Marketing; Policy; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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February 2014 (Revised June 2015)
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Fei Cheng Wu Rao (If You Are the One): The Media as a Reflection of Society

By: Christopher Marquis, Zoe Yang and Juelin Yin

As Fei Cheng Wu Rao, China's most popular entertainment program, enters its fourth year, company leaders grapple with questions of how to keep the show fresh and reach new markets. In particular, the show is poised to expand to Africa, yet there are significant... View Details

Keywords: China; Globalization; Entertainment; TV; Media; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; China

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June 2010 (Revised January 2017)
Teaching Note

Continental Media Group: Business Highlights

By: Robert Simons

Teaching Note for 110087. View Details

Keywords: Execution; Management Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Informal Management; Emergent Strategy; Management; Profit; System; Opportunities; Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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Nov 2009 - Nov 2009
Keynote Speech

How Digital Technology is Changing the Media Industry

By: Anita Elberse

Keywords: Information Technology; Change; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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March 2005
Teaching Note

Fox Bids for the NFL: 1993 & Fox and the NFL: 1998 (TN)

By: Bharat N. Anand

Teaching Note to (9-704-444) and (9-704-443). View Details

Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry

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March 2005
Case

Tribune Company: The PHONES Proposal

The Tribune Co. is considering issuing a structured note to monetize its investment in another company, America Online (AOL). Tribune originally invested in AOL in 1991 and currently has approximately 10 million shares left of that investment. However, these shares are... View Details

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Taxation; Investment; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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