Publications

fall 2001
Article

News Is Strategic in the Newspaper Business

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Strategy; Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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Siegel built the once, small boat maker into one of the largest and most powerful media holding companies. Acquiring two independent television stations with the Chris-Craft acquisition in 1968, Siegel sold the boat business in 1980 and pursued a series of shrewd media... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

Lee Shubert

Shubert and his brothers broke the Klaw-Erlanger Syndicate which controlled 95 percent of all theaters in the United States at the turn of the century. Beginning with a few theaters in New York and Connecticut, the Shuberts went on to build one of the largest theater... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

Mervyn E. Griffin, Jr.

Griffin co-produced and owned his own talk show - “The Merv Griffin Show,” which during the early 1980s was aired on 115 stations in the U.S. and Canada. “Wheel of Fortune,” Griffin’s most successful show, was by 1984 appearing on 181 stations and earning $92,000 per... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

20 Jun 2011
News

Hostile Takeover - by Aliens?

Keywords: aliens; Broadcasting (except Internet); Broadcasting (except Internet)

01 Dec 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, shows business leaders how to create and maintain a defensive... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Broadcasting (except Internet)

02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

from six radio stations to 70 in five years, took it public in 1999, and raised a couple billion dollars of capital. Today, Radio One is the largest African-American broadcasting company in the United States,” he says. “That’s where I... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

25 Jun 2020
News

Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

discussed during a live broadcast presented through the Bloomberg Harvard Initiative in April for 120 US mayors and 600 guests from around the world. Harvard Center Shanghai—In response to the pandemic, the center cohosted an online event... View Details

Web

Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

country offered apprenticeships, including Sylvania Electric Products, General Electric, Bloomingdales, American Optical Co., American Broadcasting Co., Metropolitan Life Insurance, and R. H. Macy. Sponsoring companies also benefitted... View Details

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

07 Mar 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein, Martin Peitz, and Tommaso Valletti; Media & Broadcasting; Media & Broadcasting; Media & Broadcasting

29 Nov 2022
Cold Call Podcast

How Will Gamers and Investors Respond to Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard?

Keywords: Re: Joseph Pacelli; Media & Broadcasting; Media & Broadcasting

June 2022
Teaching Note

Katie Couric Media: Landing the First Client

By: N. Louis Shipley, William R. Kerr and Paige Boehmcke

Developed for teaching Entrepreneurial Sales, the Katie Couric Media case supports class discussion on client selection, sales strategy, and scaling a startup media firm. View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Marketing; Mergers And Acquisitions; Start-up; Entrepreneurship; Sales; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Media and Broadcasting Industry

April 2020
Case

TiVo 2020

By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher

This short case provides an update on TiVo from 2016-2020. The case covers TiVo merger with Rovi, the turnover of several CEOs, and struggles on how to reposition its product business (the digital video recorder). View Details

Keywords: Streaming; Media; Technological Innovation; Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry

June 2015
Case

Fei Ni Mo Shu (You are the One) and the Chinese Employment Market

By: Christopher Marquis, Qi Li and Ying Zhang

This case study shows the evolution of the Chinese television program Fei Ni Mo Shu (You are the One), from an unrecognized show in 2010 to becoming a television phenomenon in 2015. The success of Fei Ni Mo Shu (You are the One) has resulted from it reflecting the... View Details

Keywords: China; Media; Employment; Education; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Beijing

January 2013
Case

Say on Pay at The Walt Disney Company

By: Ian D. Gow and Gaizka Ormazabal

This case focuses on the lead-up to Disney's 2012 annual meeting where Disney would face a vote on the compensation package of its CEO, Robert Iger. Leading proxy advisory firms were recommending that shareholders reject the proposed compensation. View Details

Keywords: Shareholder Votes; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

October 1997 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Telewizja Wisla

Claire Hurley and her business partner have obtained a supra-regional TV license for Poland. Their company has received initial funding from Polish investors and now faces the difficult challenge of raising an additional $7 million to fund the start of operations of a... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Poland