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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
watched quietly as the finalists defended earth from pixelated aliens on their television screens. “‘Fweep, fweep, fweep,’ went the lasers. ’Krch, krch, krch,’ went the doomed invaders,” the Associated Press reported from one of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
"Multimedia and the Boundaryless Organization." With the creation of services such as online newspapers and television home shopping, information has become a commodity itself, replacing physical products and services. Associate Professor... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
television programs that fell flat, despite big investments,’ says Zuluaga. “He told us to be sure to hedge your bets because there are big risks in trying to understand your audience.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
20th century, I decided on an industrial marketer and a consumer marketer who epitomized the "American Century." Each in his own way was a pioneer in the art of salesmanship: Thomas J. Watson, Sr., who created International Business Machines (IBM), and Charles Revson,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
studying on our campus. In the same way that recorded music is a complement, not a substitute, for attending a live concert, and in the same way that watching a ballgame on television can’t really compete with the experience of sitting in... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
less, attractive. Hardware and software are complements. So are hot dogs and mustard, cars and car loans, cable television and TV Guide, the Internet and high-capacity digital phone lines, catalogues and overnight delivery services - even... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brown and Company) Beginning in 1979 as a cable channel televising sporting events in Connecticut, ESPN is arguably now the most successful network in TV history. The authors tell the inside story of this amazing rise, drawing on over 500... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
president of Disney's global television and telecommunications businesses. Noting that compared with his generation, today's MBA students have a better sense of balance when juggling work, family, and community service, Hightower counsels... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Chinese imports are flooding the domestic market. China recorded a $124 billion trade surplus with the United States last year, the biggest bilateral trade imbalance in history. Trade friction escalated late last year when the U.S. government slapped Chinese View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
on their laurels"—are messages he has offered as the author of two books on brand management, an expert commentator in television and print media, and a speaker at major conferences and events. "Consulting companies need to establish a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
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 Mar 2009
- News
An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
changes. As an illustration, when color television was invented, nobody would buy color TVs because no network was broadcasting in color. And networks would not broadcast in color because nobody owned color televisions. It took David... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
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 Mar 2010
- News
The Heart of the Deal
of Comcast who will run the new enterprise, has high-profile business, especially TV business, in his genes. His father, Dan Burke (MBA ’55), is the former CEO of Capital Cities/ABC and a television industry legend; and an uncle, James... View Details
- 21 May 2021
- News
See Us Unite for Change
Courtesy Sheila Lirio Marcelo In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) month, MTV’s Entertainment brands are streaming a global television special, “See Us Unite for Change,” on May 21. Hosted by comedian Ken Jeong, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
For over twenty years, Boston native Joe Toplyn has written and produced television comedy. His credits include Late Night with David Letterman, for which he won four Emmy Awards; The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; The Late Show with David... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
approached him. “He said that he was going into a little crapshoot in Albany and needed someone to run a television station,” recalls Murphy. “That’s how in 1954 I became Capital Cities first employee.” Just ten years later, he was named... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
For most of the past 25 years, Jeff Sagansky has followed the same ritual every morning. He gets up early and pores over the previous day's Nielsen ratings, those omnipotent numbers that detail who's watching what on television from dawn... View Details
- 28 Feb 2020
- News
Kelly Campbell Named President of Hulu
Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Walt Disney Co. announced that it was promoting Kelly Campbell (MBA 2005) to president of the streaming service Hulu, the Los Angeles Times reports. With 30 million subscribers and a host of network View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
the proceedings on closed-circuit television in a nearby room.) Ranging in age from 6 to 15, identified by name cards, some eighty kids filled a Hawes Hall classroom. Not all feet reached the floor, but hands of all sizes were soon waving... View Details