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Stern led the transformation of the National Basketball Association into a world class organization. He forged new labor agreements, established a model anti-drug program, and ensured the stable growth of the organization through franchise additions. When he assumed... View Details

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Steven Spielberg

Spielberg is a prolific director and producer who greatly influenced the manner in which films are created, marketed, and distributed over the last few decades of the twentieth century. Noted for his exceptional use of special effects and big budget productions,... View Details

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Michael R. Bloomberg

Through the development of a proprietary computer system, Bloomberg built one of the most successful financial news, information and analysis services in the country. Competing against stalwarts like Dow Jones and Reuters, Bloomberg effectively infiltrated Wall Street... View Details

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L. Lowry Mays

Beginning with one small radio station in 1972, Mays went on to create a massive media empire under the name Clear Channel Communications. Mays was particularly aggressive in acquiring new entities as deregulation spread to the radio and telecommunications industries.... View Details

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George W. Lucas

Lucas has produced and directed some of the most successful films in history including the Star Wars Trilogy and the Indiana Jones series. Through his Industrial Light and Magic subsidiary, he has pioneered some of the most dramatic digital special effects on screen.... View Details

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Robert L. Johnson

Johnson created the first and only cable television station with programming for and about black Americans. Though he struggled to gain a subscriber base in the early eighties, Johnson persevered and built a viable enterprise. When he took the company public in 1991,... View Details

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Samuel Goldwyn

Goldwyn is recognized worldwide as one of the most significant single individuals in the history of the motion picture industry. Goldwyn became Hollywood's pre-eminent independent filmmaker producing a body of work, which included 80 films. In 1947, Goldwyn made “The... View Details

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01 Mar 2004
News

The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead

2f1f4a24430fe040f37c6d7564258142 Viewers love The Weather Channel, giving its president and CEO, Bill Burke (MBA ’92), an enviable edge over many of his counterparts in the notoriously fickle business of cable network programming. On average, more than 21 million... View Details

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

01 Dec 2003
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Acing Reality

e26ab6ec3e322e740f082ee4c18d618b Reality television is not exactly the place you’d picture catching a glimpse of a former classmate, but those in the HBS Class of 1997 were treated to a reunion last summer when Willis C. (“Chip”) Arndt (MBA ’97) and his partner,... View Details

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

16 Nov 2010
News

An Alumna Who "Rocks"

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

August 2010 (Revised January 2020)
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Rupert Murdoch: The Last Tycoon

By: Geoffrey Jones and Hari Balkrishna

The case examines the entrepreneurial career of Rupert Murdoch and the growth of News Corporation from a small Australian newspaper to a global media giant. It shows how he expanded geographically to Europe, the United States, and Asia and from newspapers to the film... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Media; Globalized Firms and Management; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Europe; United States; Australia

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22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

a very positive and spirited tone.” A Fireside Chat with Titans of Broadcasting in South Florida The HBS Club of South Florida and the HBS Latino Alumni Association co-sponsored an exclusive, sold-out Fireside Chat on February 4,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 1999
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A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

that monitors radio broadcasts and frequencies and identifies songs as they air. Songs are scanned into a computer to create a digital "fingerprint," which is then matched against music played by radio stations monitored by ConneXus... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry