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17 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

health. On one visit, Tony gently encourages his father, who is getting depressed, to try watching some different TV shows, and Tony says he will come by more often and tell his father he loves him. A few minutes later, Tony's mother... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

01 Jun 2017
News

Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

father’s greeting was, ‘Is your homework done?’ ” Real-world experience: “One of my HBS recommendations was written by my supervisor from a job I had on the Mass Turnpike. I worked for four summers as a maintenance truck rider and guardrail fixer.” View Details

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

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

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

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

meeting with the CEO, Lo drew him a network diagram of what the future infrastructure of TV distribution was going to look like. “It’s all going to be bits and bytes,” she told him. Lo would later help stitch together some 200 European... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

of Children's Television Workshop in New York, which produces educational TV programs for children such as Sesame Street, is finding that using business strategy has been critical to the success of his nonprofit organization. "In an... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

were funny in themselves, and I still have some phrases I use every week that were coined in those hours.) So one day Eric made mention of how, when the professor was talking to the board, he noted how much he sounded like the teacher in the old Charlie Brown View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

decision concerns how to allocate this budget. How much should go to TV ads? How should the remainder be allocated within the digital media options? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516028-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

damaged the US’s social psyche, as did widespread drug use and chemical dependency. Vivid pictures of violence in Vietnam on TV plus incessant riots in major US cities began to blur the differences between crime, punishment, and... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Books Integrity. Kindness. Hard work. Substance and value. Are these the words that describe a media mogul? They are when it’s the late Frank Biondi, the former CEO of HBO, Universal Studios, and Viacom, who leaves a legacy far beyond the movies and View Details

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

Reactions to Humor? By: Teixeira, Thales S., and Horst Stipp Abstract—Humor and other entertaining content, as opposed to demonstrations of product features and "selling," are increasingly used in advertising, such as TV... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

world? Discusses the new distribution platforms, including downloads and video streaming. Also, provides a brief background of the evolution of the U.S. TV broadcast networks from the 1970s through the end of the 20th century. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

car. If you want leather seats in a car, this costs more because leather costs more than plastic. If you want a TV set with a bigger screen and more features, that is more expensive; it takes more circuits, more material, and so on.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

01 Mar 2010
News

Money Matters

both partners write personal finance columns for Reuters’ India Web site and for the Wall Street Journal’s Indian partner, livemint.com. They appear on two TV shows every weekend: Bloomberg UTV’s Smart Money and ET Now’s Investor’s Guide.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

02 Aug 2018
News

Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

radio spots 23,000, TV spots, and 588 billboards. And the goal of that campaign was for 80% of those teens to be exposed one of those ads five times a week. Well, you do that for you know 62 weeks and you've done some pretty heavy... View Details

23 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

http://hbr.org/product/handbook-of-leadership-theory-and-practice/an/12326-HBK-ENG Moment-to-Moment Optimal Branding in TV Commercials: Preventing Avoidance by Pulsing Authors:Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel, and Rik Pieters... View Details