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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
William Shatner of Star Trek fame starring in a series of quirky radio and TV ads for the company, that decision has proved to be an inspired one. Most recently, Brier has focused on Priceline's plans to expand abroad. Joint ventures,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
the 1950s, Sagansky recalls that TV characters like the Cartwrights in Bonanza "became an important part of my life." In high school, he followed the industry in Variety. After graduating from Harvard College in 1974, he opted to attend... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Now Hear This
The voiceover industry is booming. Those dulcet tones and distinctive pipes you've long heard on radio and TV commercials are now much in demand for CD-ROMs and the Internet, as well as for traditional markets such as cartoons and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
news, classifieds, TV listings, ads, and coupons. They didn’t realize that there were new digital businesses to be built separately from the news bundle. And even if they did realize it, digital was a very different business. It was more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial
Baker Library on August 15, and the monastery bell was sent on its way back home. The remaining replacement bells will arrive at Lowell House next spring after Harvard Commencement, and the originals will be returned to Russia. The mid-August bell swap attracted... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
Seldom, if ever, has global competition been so glamorous, or so passionately beheld. At soccer's World Cup in France this summer, hundreds of thousands of spectators and a cumulative TV audience of 37 billion cheered and wept as 32... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
part, found himself fielding some unexpected questions. “What’s a soap opera?” one boy asked during a discussion of ad rates for different kinds of TV programming. Mention of a $1.3 million cost provoked the query, “How much money is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
broadcast and satellite technology “had a clear influence on the man who went on to make billions in Malaysia’s mobile phone, satellite, and pay TV business,” the Morning Herald wrote. Backed by a fortune said to be around $10 billion,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters
When the phenomenon of cord-cutting— dropping a cable subscription in favor of one or more online streaming services—started attracting media attention a couple of years ago, the TV industry didn’t respond quickly. Cord-cutters were a... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
in-development wireless TV from Haier; Toyota's plans to make it easier to charge Prius models; and an iPhone charger due out later in 2013. Then there are the wirelessly recharging AA batteries that will hopefully reduce the 40 billion... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
with an audience of some 350 people. Biondi said that future success in the entertainment industry will depend on senior executives' ability to predict trends from new technology. He reminded participants that TV executives, for example,... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
“You can be 15 or 20 minutes outside Atlanta and feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere.” Evening routine: “After work or dinner, I always walk the dog, a 70-pound rescue. She’s a super mutt, basically. And I try to avoid TV and... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
chosen as the 2018 Class Day speaker. “At HBS, I dove right in and wanted to explore if there was a place for me in this industry,” Iyer says. She tapped into the HBS alumni network, emailing graduates who worked in entertainment with specific questions about how a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
government has more power.” —Nancy Barry (MBA ’75), President, Nancy Barry Associates–Enterprise Solutions to Poverty “The iPhone changed everything by bringing the Web to your handheld. The next frontier will be your TV — that’s the next... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
throughout the industry. By the end of 2011, Media General, which also owned interests in TV broadcasting and digital media, was carrying high levels of debt despite deep workforce and capital expenditure cuts. It was a situation that led... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
More Than a Game
part of the TV show Undercover Boss ; in his first year as SeaWolves owner, he served as a color commentator for the home radio broad casts and sometimes helped the grounds crew pull the tarp on the field. Another is focusing on just a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Looking to the Majors
Portland-Vancouver, the 23rd-largest TV market in the country, is most suitable for a Major League Soccer franchise. “You’re talking about one of the best soccer markets in the country and bringing in a league that is really on the rise,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
online-shopping type of operation, using broadcast to pitch the product, with people beaming in orders and making purchases without ever leaving the broadcast, something neither radio nor TV can do. As it is for my show, Shovio can be a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
geographic: Japanese stars who come to US cities with a large Japanese population—Los Angeles and New York, for example—can convert those populations into increased ticket and merchandise sales. (All major league teams share national TV... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
In the ‘Spotlight’
spec for the TV series “The West Wing,” which was passed from a friend to one of the show’s producers. And with that, Singer’s new role as a screenwriter was launched. Following “The West Wing,” Singer wrote the screenplay for the film... View Details