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01 Sep 2023
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Action Plan: In Context

microculture doesn’t necessarily work in another one,” she explains. “The way to really crack the etiquette code is to crack the code of each microculture.” In other words, etiquette means something different with your work colleagues than with your friends. In 2018, a... View Details

Keywords: April White; communication; manners; business; entrepreneurship; China; human behavior

12 May 2023
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Alabama's Yella Fella

Yella Wood. He also created the "Yella Fella," a crime-fighting cowboy that Rane portrayed in television commercials. Each ad, broadcast across the South, functioned as a mini-episode. Each of the four seasons ended on a cliffhanger, to... View Details

Keywords: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods; Wholesale Trade

01 Dec 2023
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Action Plan: Life Study

producer. His acting career began with the role of Reverend Jerry Bedford in the 1960s television series Peyton Place. He says playing a sniveling coward opposite Clint Eastwood in 1973’s High Plains Drifter was a career opener. Many... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1997
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J. Hughes Norton III

services. IMG also sponsors tournaments and events and does television production and merchandising as well. Behind this boom, however, is the industry concerned about overexposure or a backlash against the enormous sums athletes make? On... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1997
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W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

mortgages on our homes to buy the company, we felt if we could just recoup our money, we'd be reasonably happy. I think my share was $40,000, so things have turned out much better than I ever dreamed." For a man who thrives on conquering some of the toughest challenges... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

really great for brand building, because we all think brand. We don't think piece, we think whole. MSLO has $130 million in revenues, a daily television show, a magazine with 2.3 million subscribers, and a new presence on the Web. What is... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

Tigers. "Consumer product markets in Vietnam are starting to reach capacity, but if you look at companies in the intermediate manufacturing sectors, such as those that serve the car and television industries, there will be many... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

25 Aug 2014
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Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

include wireless towers in India, Brazil, and Africa; digital television in Turkey; Hong Kong’s largest broadcaster; an award-winning video game developer; and the biggest name in endurance sports, IRONMAN, to name a few. In the United... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

a series of significant acquisitions, purchasing a small cable television station. During the next few decades, Landmark's TeleCable division bought dozens of cable stations around the country before selling them to Tele-Communications... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

made. For example, in my business (motion pictures), film and television product can deliver important climate messages without “hitting people over the head with them.” There is a balance to be struck and we must find it. Scott Jacobs... View Details

01 Jun 2025
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Narrative Arc

RIGHT AT HOME For Ty Kim, a long career in journalism and filmmaking driven by the power of story (Photo: Christina Gandolfo) When Ty Kim (MBA 2000) joined the television news magazine 60 Minutes, the correspondent Ed Bradley gave him a nickname: “He called me... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; documentary; filmmaking; arts

01 Dec 2007
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Homeward Bound

On a bright mid-August morning, a hard-hat crew aided by a massive crane replaced the centuries-old Russian bell atop Baker Library with a newly cast HBS Centennial Bell. The old bell, considered a Russian national treasure, was returned to Moscow’s Danilov Monastery,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2003
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Patrick Moreton

bipartisan furor ensued. The House has voted to overturn some of the agency’s decision. What’s going on? Until June 2, FCC rules decreed that no television network could own local stations that, in aggregate, reached more than 35 percent... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information

24 Apr 2014
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A business career comes full circle

Henry McGee (AB 1974, MBA 1979) spent 34 years at Home Box Office, helping to develop the television company into an international powerhouse. As president of HBO Home Entertainment, the DVD and digital program distribution division, he... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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The Play's the Thing

Baron, the first non-European to win the prestigious award. "I think it's a well-made story, and it's funny," said Baron, a former executive with American Express and Coca-Cola who later became a television and movie writer. "It's really... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2005
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Change Channel

background as an example of the diversity of the gay experience in America. “Advertisers and cable servers seem to understand that this is one of the last great underserved market segments,” Graden noted. “If you’re gay or lesbian, you have seen yourself represented on... View Details