Media Businesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

lives, it is difficult to escape coverage of climate change in the media today. With many countries as well as companies declaring their net-zero ambitions, it is tempting to think that business leaders have... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Students and Business Leaders Look to Africa's Future

"Africa in the New Millennium: Invest in the Future" was the theme of the 2000 HBS Africa Business Club conference, held on campus the first weekend in April. More than six hundred students and representatives from over two hundred... View Details

31 Oct 2019
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Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup

Clubs News Clubs News Wisconsin executives share success More than 100 alumni and guests of the HBS Club of Wisconsin gathered on October 8 at the Fiserv Forum, home arena of the Milwaukee Bucks, to explore how two local business leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)

I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; sports reporting; digital media; strategy; management

01 Sep 2017
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Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable

Wirecutter, earlier this year—what’s next for media companies? Do you see hope for the local newspaper that is not the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal? Our country needs a healthy local news ecosystem, and we are losing local... View Details

Keywords: April White; New York Times; newspapers; Google; Wirecutter; social media; Facebook; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

02 Jan 2014
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The Power to Change

Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School. Yet for all his big thinking, Wilcox doesn't necessarily view himself as a visionary. He says he's more the guy to help transform the Big Idea from mere brainstorm to reality. "In my... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Business and Environment Initiative; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief

entrepreneurship and a fascinating case study of a large media business both experiencing and driving change. In their groundbreaking book, The Venture Imperative: A New Model for Corporate Innovation, Heidi... View Details

Keywords: Harvard Business School Press; books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2004
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Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference

The media and entertainment business can be a bit of a roller-coaster ride — particularly in today’s climate of tight margins and consolidation. But that state of flux creates opportunity, agreed panelists... View Details

Keywords: women in business; women's student association; Arts, Entertainment

09 Jan 2018
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Facebook Score, Emotional Intelligence, Make Marriage Work

01 Jun 2012
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Faculty Books

How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind (Harvard Business Review Press) How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the... View Details

Keywords: Professor Amy C. Edmonson; Professor Boris Groysberg; Professor Josh Lerner; Teaching Fellow Ann Leamon; Professor Leslie A. Perlow; Professor of Management Practice Felda Hardymon;; social media; Finance