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Michael R. Bloomberg
career plan. “I was supposed to go to Vietnam,” Bloomberg recalled during a recent Bloomberg TV interview. “But at the last minute they wouldn’t take me because I had flat feet. A friend of mine said to `Go to Wall Street.’” Bloomberg... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Russian TV in which he addressed some 90 million bemused viewers in his version of their native tongue. Notes Tobias, "Sure, it meant I had to pronounce words like pryedopryzhdyeniye> while reading from a makeshift teleprompter. But night... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
newspapers respond to entry by TV broadcast stations in 1945–1963. We find that newspaper firms’ responses depend on their customers’ tendencies to multi-home (adopt both newspaper and TV) or single-home (adopt only newspaper or only TV).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
revenue. Station owner Edmund Ansin and general manager Chris Wayland faced a choice of whether to use the TV news to push viewers to the station's website and monetize online, or use an online presence to build loyalty to Channel 7 and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
unlikely for TV or radio or even the online news because they source so much from the print press. The blogs are a really interesting question. I know there's been some work done in political science looking at whether blogs are creating... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) is a journalist and author of two New York Times best selling books. She was a political reporter and a TV producer in DC before coming to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
hold you back from what you want to become,” Draper tells them earnestly, his hair plastered around his face. That’s a scene from the first episode of Startup U, a reality TV show on ABC Family that follows 10 DU students through the ups... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
Journal, and grew to include everything from magazines to radio and TV stations. Warwick Fairfax (MBA 1987), the founder's great-great grandson, grew up with the expectation that he would someday run the company and carry on the family... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
island." Surprisingly, older alumni rated the personal computer second and the "tube" third, although one older respondent noted that "the pervasive influence of TV has not yet been superseded by PCs." Other products named included... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
every day, all the time, and that was my experience for getting to know the Africans themselves. Morrell: Francis, you're working on a book and a potential TV show, both with the title Unseen Africa. How do you define unseen Africa?... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
company created within the last five years that produces the number one flat-panel TV brand in the U.S., beating Sony, Samsung, and Panasonic. It created a brand and financed itself to grow fast despite a limited number of staff—because... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
LPO in August 2005. A week later, while guest conducting in Korea, he saw reports on CNN that New Orleans, though battered by Hurricane Katrina, had managed to avoid major damage. But constant email updates from an LPO member, which had earlier matched the somewhat... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
materials served up to Americans was exploding: In 1978, Time Inc. published 6 magazines; today it publishes 132. Technology transformed broadcast media as well. In the late 1970s, most Americans had three networks on their TV sets: ABC,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as the technology involved in... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
$522 IQ PC aimed at children in India. Moreover, in August 2007, Lenovo, which manufactures a third of all computers sold in China, announced it would offer a laptop priced between $199 and $399 targeted at China's rural population. The PCs would plug into View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
lay-out of supermarkets is more or less the same no matter where you go. Various web sites today may try to differentiate themselves by offering a different experience to the consumer, Papa said, "but we find that people want all TVs to... View Details
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
My co-founder Rich Tom and I observed that the audiences so coveted by traditional TV were gravitating toward a new generation of digital storytellers. Many of these voices have become brands in their own right and have built passionate... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
round-the-clock operation for much of the summer.” In late June, the daily incoming requests for FinGig skyrocketed after we were featured on the NBC Charlotte TV affiliate. The co-founders were interviewed on the local news to spread the... View Details