Media and Broadcasting Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

Web

Relocating to Boston with Your Partner - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged... View Details

25 Aug 2014
News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

the world’s leading private equity firms. The decision to specialize in media and communications in 1985 might seem prescient, but the low-key Nelson claims he was merely following his passion. “I’ve always... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Leonard H. Goldenson

As head of the merged American Broadcasting Company and Paramount Pictures, Goldenson became known as the man who “wed television to the movies.” Goldenson was able to convince Disney Studios View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021) and James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021) Photo courtesy Syrup Tech Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world, says James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021), who worked in... View Details

Keywords: April White

January 1990 (Revised October 1999)
Teaching Note

RKO Warner Video, Inc.: Incentive Compensation Plan TN

By: George P. Baker III

Teaching Note for (9-190-067). View Details

Keywords: Media; Compensation and Benefits; Media and Broadcasting Industry

Citation

Purchase

01 Oct 2002
News

Michael F. Cronin

under management. Given Cronin's background, it's not surprising that the WP portfolio favors traditional industrial and service companies that are strong on business fundamentals. Examples include Herald... View Details

August 1990 (Revised October 1991)
Teaching Note

Thumbs-Up Video, Inc., Teaching Note

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Teaching Note for (9-189-193). View Details

Keywords: Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry

Citation

Purchase

Web

What Does PRIDE Mean to You? - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged... View Details

Web

Recent Alumni - Alumni

substantive, and meaningful relationship with HBS, click on the Volunteer Now button and a staff member will follow up shortly with more details. Volunteer Opportunities: Career & Professional Development... View Details

Book Review

Review of "Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Keywords: History; Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry

Citation

Find at Harvard

April 2007
Supplement

Dataset for "Clear Channel Communications, Inc." (CW)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Keywords: Media; Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry

Citation

Purchase

September 2000 (Revised May 2003)
Case

Radio One, Inc.

By: Richard S. Ruback and Pauline M Fischer

Radio One (NYSE: ROIA and RIOAK), the largest radio group targeting African-Americans in the country, had the opportunity to acquire 12 urban stations in the top 50 markets from Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (NYSE: CCU) in the winter of 2000. The stations were... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Valuation; Race; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Indiana; United States; North Carolina

Citation

Educators

Purchase

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

insurance industry Proudest Accomplishment: Being the mother of Elisa and the wife of Andrés Summer Internship: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) - Boston Office How do you do it? I have a great partner (Andy),... View Details

1999
Chapter

Digital Media: Cutting Through the Hype

By: J. A. Deighton and Patrick Barwise

Keywords: Media; Technology; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

Citation

September 2021 (Revised December 2021)
Case

STARZPLAY: Shooting for the Stars

By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini and Alpana Thapar

In mid-2021, Maaz Sheikh, cofounder and CEO of STARZPLAY, a Dubai-based subscription video on demand (SVOD) provider that catered to the Middle East and North Africa region, was wrestling with how to find the right balance between continued subscriber growth and... View Details

Citation

Educators

Purchase

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

Imagine a future in which a smart marketing machine can predict the needs and habits of individual consumers and the dynamics of competitors across industries View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

Virginian-Pilot, a daily newspaper owned by his uncle. After graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA), serving in the Merchant Marine, and earning a Harvard MBA in 1952, he took a job as a reporter View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

Wasserman. "They have a lot of senior people at the top and very few junior people below them. Several other industries that started out that way - such as investment banking View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

July 1972 (Revised September 1985)
Case

Saturday Evening Post (Revised)

Permits analysis of the need for adapting strategy to environmental change and for choosing among strategic alternatives in the light of new environmental opportunities. Management and board failures in these areas may be traced to some of the underlying causes,... View Details