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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
audio broadcasting technology to bring satellite radio to all corners of Africa. Koos Bekker, managing director of Naspers, a leading media and communications group in South Africa, discussed his firm's Internet and pay television... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
because there are a lot of unlikeable characters, but you want the audience to need and want to spend time with these people. And then the second thing is there has to be something universal in the theme because television is a global... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
it is also surprisingly tiring. At the end of the day, it is a relief to get to our hotel and be greeted with damp facecloths and a cold glass of juice. The accommodations offer a combination of slower-paced, relaxed African atmosphere with amenities such as private... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
living suite with a Brazilian stock broker, a Japanese television producer, a Botswanan chemical engineer, and a Danish medical trials manager. The cohort, eight in total, were able to share their unique experiences, thoughts, fears, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Harvard Business School. In an effort to ensure parity and competitiveness among all its teams—and thereby stoke fan interest—the NFL literally shares the wealth: Some 60 percent of its nationally generated television and merchandising... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
is certainly not the only game in town for startup hopefuls. The medical-device and biotechnology industries also lure people eager to create their own businesses, as do many of the areas that attracted entrepreneurs a decade ago. Of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
ratings boost and launching a career that has seen a variety of radio gigs, including on Sirius, and many appearances on national television (such as Larry King Live and Nightline) and in print media (including Playboy, Glamour, and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
customer. When students learn that a hammer pad basically consists of coiled steel, they often exclaim, ‘And I’m expected to pay thousands of dollars for that?’ They come to grips with the idea that physical appearance plays a part in how you price a car, but with an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... View Details
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
1996, and she moved back to the States, taking a job as vice president of operations with Warner Brothers Television in Los Angeles. "What I missed most about America was the attitude that you can be anybody and still get ahead in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision, were pioneering what would become... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
3 million fans a year, as it has done for nine of its eleven seasons at AT&T Park. However, in an industry where filling the airwaves has become as important as filling the stands, Baer’s brokering of a partnership in a regional sports... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
editor while gaining a firsthand education in storytelling-widget management. “A television show like The West Wing is really a company that is in the business of making 22 episodes a year,” Singer says. “John Wells is an amazing producer... View Details
- 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
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
COVID-19 across eight countries over a six-week period. “The HBS community came together to mobilize civic society,” says Ghose of the endeavor, which reached 170 cities in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and beyond. “Avinash Pandey (AMP 193) gave wings to the mission by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the eighth grade, and played football. Another classmate, Rich Eustis, later became an Emmy-winning television writer; Eustis confessed to TV Guide that he based the character of Eric Mardian — the leather-jacketed genius in the ABC... View Details
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