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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
our society," he said. Arnold Rifkin argued that offsetting this blockbuster mania are numerous examples of high-quality television programming and filmmaking. He cited recent independent films such as Sling Blade and The English Patient,... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
persuasion, which takes time and a lot of patience." In a tribute occasioned by Spangler's UNC retirement, a recent North Carolina television program made clear the important role that Spangler's wife, Meredith Riggs Spangler, and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- Profile
Rachel Honeth
television station in South Bend, Indiana. But while pursuing her undergraduate degree at Northwestern, she discovered that, "I was interested in the marketing and advertising aspect of sports rather than television." After... View Details
- Profile
Brandon Gayle
In the 1970s, Brandon Gayle's family left Jamaica for New York State, where they settled in Rochester. "I watched my mother build her career over time," Brandon says, "from serving as a bookkeeper at a local television... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil some decades ago, I saw how the arrival of electricity — and a television mounted in the public square — changed life in my rural village. The outside world became visible. Other peoples and places were... View Details
- May 2025
- Case
The Future of the BBC: Public Ownership vs. Privatization
By: Henry McGee
With viewership of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in decline, the country’s Culture Minister must recommend a new funding model for the venerated public institution which will allow the broadcaster to succeed in an increasingly competitive media environment. View Details
- February 1999 (Revised August 2004)
- Case
I Lost My Volvo in New Haven: Tennis Event Sponsorship
By: Stephen A. Greyser, Brian R. Harris and Mitchell Truwit
Focuses on event management and sponsorship from the perspective of the event owner (rather than that of the sponsorship company). Describes in depth the search by one of the tennis tournaments on the professional circuit for a principal sponsor. Detailed economics of... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Communications; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management; Product Positioning; Television Entertainment; Sports; Partners and Partnerships; Sports Industry
Greyser, Stephen A., Brian R. Harris, and Mitchell Truwit. "I Lost My Volvo in New Haven: Tennis Event Sponsorship." Harvard Business School Case 599-037, February 1999. (Revised August 2004.)
- Profile
Raghu Yarlagadda
image and video processing. For four years, he worked at Motorola Mobility among the engineers who developed high-definition television technology. In the third year of his employment, he contributed to one of the first wireless set-top... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
within particular departments? Did one of your new colleagues apply for your job? You need to be in an information-gathering mode.” Waldroop’s advice may sound like a primer for contestants on the hit television show Survivor, but it in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
Business School Case 316-143 Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016 CEO David Kenny led the transformation of the Weather Company from a television business to a Big Data technology company from 2012 until 2016, when IBM acquired... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 1981 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Quabbin Cablevision Company
By: Henry B. Reiling
Several entrepreneurs are considering the purchase of an existing cable TV business with the financial assistance of several investors. They must decide whether to establish the company as a partnership or a corporation, and how to capitalize the company for an optimal... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Organization; Television Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Capital Structure; Taxation; Telecommunications Industry; Massachusetts
Reiling, Henry B. "Quabbin Cablevision Company." Harvard Business School Case 282-003, October 1981. (Revised August 2010.)
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Despite this upheaval, it seemed some businesses were immune to the digital onslaught—companies whose products and services couldn't be easily turned into 1's and 0's and put online. "A television set can't be digitized. A telephone can't... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Profile
Hayling Price
Kennedy School, the real New Rochelle he lived in differed greatly from the broadcast fantasy. "I grew up in the middle of two 'New Rochelles' and lived between two worlds," says Hayling. One of those was close to the television... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
In the motion picture industry, most people know Alan Horn as the smart, savvy chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, the film company that has turned out movie hits such as When Harry Met Sally and In the Line of Fire, as well as the phenomenally successful... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
and closing ceremonies for the Winter Olympic Games, a smash hit enjoyed by a global television audience of hundreds of millions. "Reindeer, sled dogs, and fiddlers were my life for an entire year," laughs the lanky, amiable Høegh. "Then... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
represented a substantial barrier to entry to any competitors, our long-term success would depend on customer service, scalability, and building the brand. While practically every other dot-com chose to advertise on the Internet, we saw radio and View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
sleeves.—Jeff Fagnan Lisa L. Wiersma, Principal, Tribune Ventures, invests around core businesses or newspapers and television stations. Her firm, perhaps not too surprisingly, is particularly interested in ventures that are not driven by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216075-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-072 RCA: Color Television and the Department of Justice (A) This case examines the early history of the color View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
While there, among many assignments, he took over the marketing and promotion of the Six Flags Theme parks and drove revenues and attendance to an all-time high. But Bedol had long harbored an urge to start his own business and create a classic sports View Details
- October 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2005
By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Barbara Mack
In the late 1990s, TiVo pioneered the digital video recorder (DVR), a new consumer electronics category. By 2005, the company was the clear leader in technology and installed base. It had also built extraordinary loyalty among its customers. However, TiVo lost a half... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Partners and Partnerships; Information Infrastructure; Television Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry
Yoffie, David B., Pai-Ling Yin, and Barbara Mack. "Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2005." Harvard Business School Case 706-421, October 2005. (Revised March 2006.)