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Donna Khalife
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning my MBA at HBS was critical in giving me the right environment to explore my passions and gain new skills to pursue those passions whole-heartedly. How has your HBS experience shaped your career path? My HBS... View Details
Oprah G. Winfrey
Through her company, Harpo Productions, Winfrey has created a multimedia empire. Beginning as an early morning talk show host in Chicago, Winfrey parlayed this success into one of the most enduring and successful talk shows in history – “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” From... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Joseph M. Segel
A prolific entrepreneur, Segel has founded many successful companies including The Franklin Mint and National Software testing Laboratories. His biggest success was the formation of QVC, which stands for quality, value and convenience. Segel formed QVC after watching... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Steven J. Ross
Ross built a small family funeral parlor business into the world’s largest media company by the time of his death. In 1962, Ross took the funeral parlor business, Kinney, public at a market valuation of $12.5 million. From that initial base, Ross purchased Warner-Seven... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Louis B. Mayer
Mayer, known as the unchallenged “czar of Hollywood” for over a quarter of century, created one of the largest motion pictures companies in the world. After acquiring control over the largest chain of theatres in New England and creating his own distribution agency,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Marcus Loew
Loew, a pioneer in the development of nickelodeons (by 1919, he owned 100 with assets of $25 million), built a vertically integrated movie production operation. He created Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) as a Loew’s subsidiary in 1924, which became one of the “Big Five” in... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Gordy’s Motown Records became the most successful African-American enterprise of its time with sales in the early 1970s of $50 million. Gordy’s first gold record came just one year after the founding of Motown - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ 1960 hit “Shop Around.”... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
David L. Geffen
Four years before owning his record label outright, Geffen structured a deal with Warner Communications to provide distribution services and financial underwriting. Geffen was extremely adept at spotting and promoting talent. He convinced John Lennon, Elton John and... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
William Fox
Fox pioneered the vertical integration of the film industry by merging production, distribution, and exhibition under single ownership. Fox, along with Adolph Zukor, of Paramount Pictures, is largely recognized for making Hollywood the movie capital of the world. Fox’s... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
percent. Screen Saver Re: AMC Theatres’ quest for a third place Very interesting story of what brick-and-mortar can do to compete in a tough video entertainment market. The puzzle is if this is a strategy of building better mousetraps or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
wheel." — Jack Legare, the hero of Goddesses and Doormats, the forthcoming thriller by Norb Vonnegut (MBA 1986) What I'm Reading "An LA native, I thought I understood the entertainment industry—that is, until I read HBS professor Anita... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
and equality is meaningful and challenging,” she adds. “I know my goal to develop organizations and society on this issue is a lofty one; and I may not be able to change the world, but I can sure keep the ball rolling.” Coleman began her career working in the View Details
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Durdana Achakzai
and Latin America. Going to HBS is like traveling around the world to learn global business practices." Applying a broad perspective to energy Even though she had no plans to work in the entertainment industry, Durdana used her... View Details
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Career Journey | MBA
1% Europe 5% Latin America 1% Middle East / North Africa < 1% United States 88% Class of 2024 who actively sought and accepted full-time roles after graduation. Industry Consulting 18% Consumer Products 3% Entertainment / Media 3%... View Details
- June 2009 (Revised March 2011)
- Module Note
The Creative Industries: Managing Products and Product Portfolios
By: Anita Elberse
This module note examines the way in which professional content producers in the creative industries approach product and product portfolio management, and explores the underlying reasons for their strategies. View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Management Practices and Processes; Marketing; Product Development; Production; Creativity
Elberse, Anita. "The Creative Industries: Managing Products and Product Portfolios." Harvard Business School Module Note 509-077, June 2009. (Revised March 2011.)
- September 2014 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
Managing Multi-Media Audiences at WHDH (Boston)
By: Thales Teixeira and V. Kasturi Rangan
WHDH's Channel 7 News rose to the #1 position in Boston-area news broadcasting through its embrace of an innovative format and for affiliating with NBC. Since the early 2000s, however, other news programs had copied their format, and young audiences had begun to use... View Details
Keywords: Online News; Television Advertising; Attention Economics; Cross-media Efforts; Competition; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Marketing; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Boston
Teixeira, Thales, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Managing Multi-Media Audiences at WHDH (Boston)." Harvard Business School Case 515-037, September 2014. (Revised March 2015.)
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
about capturing value through intellectual property regimes, standards, and technology platforms. Digital convergence takes center stage in the final module. Convergence examples, suddenly, are plentiful. Computing and entertainment have... View Details
- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
File-Sharing and Copyright Researchers Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf argue that file-sharing technology has not undermined the incentives of artists and entertainment companies to create, market, and distribute new works. Key... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
role of stories in your own life? I come from a storytelling culture. My great-grandmother’s village in Iran had almost no modern amenities, so people told stories as entertainment and to keep up with news. Then, as a refugee you have a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering View Details