Filter Results:
(196)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(424)
- People (1)
- News (196)
- Research (129)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (77)
- Faculty Publications (79)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(424)
- People (1)
- News (196)
- Research (129)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (77)
- Faculty Publications (79)
Sort by
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
air,” and told Torn he might want to try acting as well. Torn tried to dissuade him—Hartley was an engineer, he’d gone to business school, acting wasn’t for him. Okay, Hartley said. But what if I decide to try anyway? What would you tell me? Torn, who went on to win... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Nov 2010
- News
The HBS Tunnels
part of student life, no doubt a certain amount of tunnel lore exists, but it hasn’t been collected. I note here that the purple tunnel under Glass Hall was the scene of at least one twist party in 1962, spilling out from the basement offices of WHBS View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
studied music and hosted a late-night jazz radio show. When he graduated from college, Nelson took a job with Boston-based Wellman International and immediately set off for China. “I had no idea what I was getting into,” he says. “But it... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
stay-at-home mompreneurs, the work got done in whatever bits of time she could steal from the day. When her daughter, Della, enrolled in a dance class in Harlem that year, Dixon would drive her Jetta wagon with “WOKE” plates and SiriusXM View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Turning Point: Listen to the Music
Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
important in shaping who we are as businesspeople," echoes David E. Simmons (MBA '85), president of Simmons Family, Inc., a firm established by Roy Simmons in 1978 that owns and operates radio stations in the western United States. "The... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
further investments in the newspaper, television, and radio realms, combining them all under the name Landmark in 1967. In 1982, amid considerable skepticism from industry experts, Batten created The Weather Channel, a 24-hour cable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
England, and Germany by examining the 200 largest corporations in those countries. In 2001, Chandler wrote Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries, which focused on the fall of the View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
created Moms of Black Boys United on Facebook and in less than 12 hours it had 21,000 members. Within three months there were 150,000.” Accelerator: “When I was at New York Public Radio someone asked what was next. I said, ‘I’m not sure,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Power Couple
Richard Sarnoff (MBA ’87), a group president at Random House, is one forward-looking media exec who has some impressive links to the industry’s past: His great-uncle, former RCA chairman David Sarnoff, was instrumental in developing the first commercial View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
even within that difficulty, I saw such a compassionate side of humanity that I was truly inspired. So I put out this radio appeal in a country that's not my own, and just said, "We've come from India. We have a daughter and can you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
Taurus, with no lights on, suddenly roars by. “Could be a stolen!” Timken says, radioing it in and hitting the lights and siren, and we are off in pursuit, pedal to the metal, doing seventy at least, screaming down narrow residential... View Details
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
a private media company and Karisimbi client. The group worked with Tele-10 to identify ways to improve its advertising sales process for radio advertising and to help improve customer service for its satellite television business. “We... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- News
What's On The Job Frontier? Experts Weigh In
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
“blind,” with a raising-gang foreman guiding him through the process with radioed instructions. No wonder he’s not the most talkative person you’ll ever meet. The guy has a lot on his mind. “It’s like I’ve spent my whole career in a phone... View Details
- 14 Feb 2009
- News
Are Executives Worth Their Compensation?
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
radio instruction, which was first developed in the 1980s. “One of the problems in the developing world that continues to vex everyone is that a lot of the world’s poor people live in remote, rural communities. And, not shockingly,... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
There is a hunger for foreign news. The BBC World Service is a successful global venture; America’s National Public Radio has millions of loyal listeners, many drawn by its coverage of international news. A group of investors, including... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
generates more than $1 billion annually in ad revenues. That puts the Internet ahead of two long-established media sectors, network radio and billboards. In a new working paper titled "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry"... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
Almost fifty years before HBS developed a broadcast presence with its own Web site in 1996, the School had a rather limited one: the radio station WHBS, which was in operation from 1948 to 1964 or 1965. It was limited because the... View Details