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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
purchased and revived Wired magazine before selling it at a sizable profit to CondŽ Nast. Last year, Providence led a consortium that bought the largest cable television company in Europe. A native of Providence and a graduate of Brown... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
companies strengthening themselves across several media activities. Thus Disney, which began as an entertainment provider before adding network and cable television companies, now owns a 43 percent stake in Infoseek, the Internet search... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 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 2003
- News
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
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
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
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 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 2003
- News
Going Down Easy
show (Sundays at 4:30 p.m.) shuns an “overheated” approach. “It doesn’t constantly remind people what a good idea it is to be watching this television show.” 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 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
state agency. “Mega Millions is run as a consortium by 11 member states: Georgia oversees the televised drawings, for example, while Virginia handles the money transfers between states, based on where the winner lives. That’s carried over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
Walker, who was invited by the student-led High Tech and New Media Club to speak at the School in March, equated the changes brought about by the Internet with the transformational effect the automobile, the telephone, and television have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
business case on the icon of daytime television and chairman of a major media empire was challenge enough for Professor Nancy Koehn and colleagues. Oprah Winfrey’s visit to the HBS campus in spring 2005 to talk with graduating students... View Details
- 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
- 12 May 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
became instrumental in shaping our country’s food culture. From doing early business planning for the Food Network—“People were just starting to think, ‘Maybe there could be a whole television channel devoted to food’; It was a big... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Leading the Charge
was David (“Bull”) Gurfein (MBA 2000), whose picture appeared on television sets and in newspapers around the world. According to the New York Daily News (March 22, 2003), Gurfein wanted the gesture to reassure apprehensive Iraqis that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
25th Annual African-American Student Union Career/Alumni Conference
African-American HBS graduates, and a distinguished roster of speakers, including Earl G. Graves, Sr., founder and publisher of Black Enterprise magazine. Dennis F. Hightower (MBA '74), former president of Walt Disney Television &... 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
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Using Technology to Help Reclaim Lives from Addiction
motivate healthy behavior. “As a student at HBS,” Loeb reflects, “I thought I would pursue a career at the intersection of television and computers. I never dreamed that, many years later, I would be using that concept to help people save... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
television guests. As unassuming as her modest surroundings, Thomas-Graham is composed, polite, and thoughtful even as she answers questions in rapid-fire style. The switch from consultant to top TV executive may seem dramatic, but the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Good for Laughs
made his stage debut about four years ago and now appears once or twice a week, sometimes as a headliner. (And you might have caught him on television as well, most recently on CNBC’s Power Lunch in July.) So does all that make him a... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment