Publications

22 Nov 2022
News

Merlin Entertainments Taps Scott O’Neil as CEO

Photo credit: Philadelphia 76ers; Merlin Entertainments Scott O’Neil (MBA 1998), former CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, was recently named CEO of the UK-based theme park company Merlin Entertainments, the Wall Street Journal... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

A Woman in the House

Journal Gazette (October 21, 2003). The swearing-in ceremony included an audience of eight hundred enthusiastic supporters, a high-school band, and a heartfelt rendition of the national anthem. “The bipartisan crowd was liberal with its... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2017
News

Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact

of jeans for her burial, I came across a brown, leather-bound journal. I opened it and found passages from the weeks before she died. When I showed the journal to a neighbor (who happened to be an addiction psychiatrist) he said, “You... View Details

Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)

Web

2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Organization Science, Organization and the Journal of Management Studies. She is also the author of Crafting Qualitative Research... View Details

16 Feb 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Black Business Leaders Series: A Remarkable Legacy of Firsts, Maggie Lena Walker

Keywords: Re: Anthony Mayo; Journalism & News; Journalism & News

03 Apr 2009
What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the engineers among respondents.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Journalism & News; Journalism & News

December 1997
Teaching Note

Donald Salter Communications, Inc. (TN)

By: Stuart C. Gilson

Teaching Note for (9-295-114). View Details

Keywords: Journalism and News Industry

March 1995
Case

Donald Salter Communications, Inc.

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott

A new CEO is hired to manage the turnaround of a family-owned newspaper publisher. In a departure from previous management, he implements a new compensation scheme that explicitly ties executive pay to market-value-based measures of firm performance. Because the... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Transformation; Asset Management; Wages; Balanced Scorecard; Family Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Valuation; Journalism and News Industry

May 2023
Article

A Public Health Approach to Negative News Media: The 3-to-1 Solution

By: Tyler VanderWeele and Arthur C. Brooks

There is clear evidence that the prevalence of negative media reporting has increased substantially over the past years. There is evidence also that this negative reporting adversely affects social interactions, as well as health and well-being outcomes. Given the wide... View Details

Keywords: News; Social Networks; Contagion; Population Health; Media; Health; Welfare; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Journalism and News Industry

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February 2020
Supplement

Fake News at DER SPIEGEL (B): The Commission’s Recommendations

By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Tonia Labruyere

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Media; Journalism and News Industry; Germany

March 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Teaching Note

ProPublica (TN)

By: Michel Anteby and Ryan Johnson

Teaching Note for #410-140. View Details

Keywords: Markets; Finance; Competency and Skills; Knowledge; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Journalism and News Industry

October 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Background Note

How Media Choices are Changing Online Advertising

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett

What is the response by advertisers as media consumption moves to the digital medium? Provides an overview of online advertising in mid-2006 and discusses the impact of an increasingly fractured media landscape and its accompanying expanding advertising options. View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; News; Media; Emerging Markets; Internet and the Web; Perspective; Disruption; Journalism and News Industry

March 2003 (Revised October 2003)
Case

Mercury Rising: Knight Ridder's Digital Venture

Captures the efforts of newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to create a digital venture. Knight Ridder proves to be a pioneer in digital publishing, launching the first online newspaper site; builds a network of newspaper sites called Real Cities; and invests in... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Business Growth and Maturation; Market Entry and Exit; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Newspapers; Innovation and Invention; Journalism and News Industry

March 2001 (Revised December 2007)
Case

Katharine Graham

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Lisa M. Gunther and Dina R. Pradel

Details the career of Katharine Graham of the Washington Post Co., a pioneer in her field and one of the first high-profile women to lead a major public company. Her story is a unique example of how power and expertise are built over time, and differs from those of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Journalism and News Industry

March 2001 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Range, The (B)

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Tracy Thompson and Michael P. Smith

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Journalism and News Industry

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October 1976 (Revised October 1985)
Case

Washington Post (A)

Concerns the 1975 strike of the pressmen against the Washington Post. Illustrates the importance of past practices of both unions and management and collective bargaining. Also illustrates implementation problems associated with new technologies as well as problems... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Labor Unions; Journalism and News Industry; District of Columbia

March 2009 (Revised June 2011)
Case

The Guardian: Transition to the Online World

By: David J. Collis, Peter W. Olson and Mary Furey

The Guardian had been an early innovator in online newspapers and had not only become the leading U.K. newspaper web site, but was making strides with audiences outside of the U.K. However, The Guardian had been losing money since 2000, and, in spite of the relative... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Revenue; Newspapers; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Online Technology; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; United Kingdom

March 2009 (Revised January 2010)
Background Note

The Newspaper Industry in Crisis

By: David J. Collis, Peter W. Olson and Mary Furey

This note is a primer on the newspaper industry, which has been in decline in the U.S. and Western Europe. The 19th century business model whereby news and editorial content was packaged and delivered to homes daily and paid for by national advertisers has been... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business History; Newspapers; Disruptive Innovation; Consumer Behavior; Business Strategy; Internet; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Europe; United States

February 2008 (Revised February 2009)
Case

Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG

By: Belen Villalonga, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Vincent Dessain

Der Spiegel is Germany's most influential political news magazine. In the 1970s, its founder Rudolf Augstein gave a 50% ownership stake to his employees and sold another 25% to rival publisher Gruner+Jahr, but retained significant control during his lifetime by... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Governance Controls; Employee Ownership; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Germany