Publications

Times led all other American newspapers in advertising space and amount of classified ads. Under Chandler’s leadership, the Times was also the first newspaper in the country to establish a personnel department, and one of the first to... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

01 Dec 2006
News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

HICKS Illustration by Joe Ciardiello Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97) arrived at HBS with ten years of experience as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett in Chicago. Disillusioned with the trend toward “unbundling” agencies into different... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

Dr. R.S. Sodhi

Keywords: Dairy

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

psychology and ethical decision making. Read the paper: http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/caruso_gino_cognition_2011.pdf The Design of Online Advertising Markets Author: Benjamin G. Edelman Publication: In The Handbook... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2014
News

The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

Career Coach

Sarah Sikowitz

has 15+ years' experience in digital media, marketing and advertising, most recently as Principal Analyst for Forrester Research, covering marketing, advertising and innovation firms. Sarah enjoys partnering with students and alumni on... View Details

Ernest Gallo

cooler, a new wine product, selling 2 million cases, and helping the company to exceed an estimated $1 billion in sales that same year. The commercial characters Gallo created to pitch his new wine cooler to the public, Frank Bartles & Ed Jaymes, became View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

September 2021
Case

Publicis Groupe 2021: Changing Nearly Everything

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain

After succeeding long-time CEO Maurice Levy as top leader of the world’s third largest advertising, marketing, and communications company, headquartered in France, Arthur Sadoun accelerates digital transformation through a new platform drawing on talent from any of the... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change Management; Transition; Transformation; Leadership; Digital Transformation; Advertising Industry; France; United States

March 2001 (Revised September 2005)
Case

Madison Avenue: Digital Media Services (C)

By July 2000, Madison Avenue had experienced extraordinary growth in sales, employees, clients, and service offerings. From late 1999 to July 2000, the company had taken several initiatives to redesign its internal processes so that the firm could continue to grow,... View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Digital Marketing; Product Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Advertising Industry

June 2001 (Revised September 2005)
Case

Madison Avenue: Digital Media Services (B)

In late 1999, Madison Avenue was experiencing phenomenal growth in sales, clients, employees, and services provided. The stress and strain on the firm's employees was considerable and threatened to jeopardize the high-quality, active-ad management for which the firm... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth Management; Service Operations; Digital Marketing; Business Processes; Advertising Industry

June 2001
Case

DoubleClick Buys Abacus (B)

By: John A. Deighton

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Advertising Industry

Find at Harvard

January 1995 (Revised March 1995)
Teaching Note

Saatchi and Saatchi Company PLC: Corporate Strategy TN

By: David J. Collis

Teaching Note for (9-792-056). View Details

Keywords: Advertising Industry

February 1995
Teaching Note

Catalina Marketing Corporation TN

By: David E. Bell

Teaching Note for (9-594-026). View Details

Keywords: Advertising Industry

11 Oct 2016
First Look

October 11, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45842 Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract—Paid search has become an increasingly common form of advertising, comprising about half of all... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2009
Teaching Note

Obama versus Clinton: The YouTube Primary (TN)

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

Teaching Note for [509032]. View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Media; Political Elections; Advertising Campaigns

01 Jun 2008
News

New Face at Facebook

advertising arm, which generates more than half its revenue and employs thousands of people. In addition to developing an advertising network for Facebook, she will be in charge of marketing and human... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

December 2022 (Revised February 2023)
Case

Daniel Defense: Responding to the Shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher

At 11:33am on May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old man from Uvalde, Texas walked into the Robb Elementary School carrying a semi-automatic "AR-15-style” rifle manufactured by Daniel Defense and killed 19 children and two adults. Three days later, Representative Carolyn Maloney... View Details

Keywords: Gun Violence; Gun Policy; Second Amendment; Legal Liability; Government Legislation; Marketing Strategy; Business or Company Management; Product Marketing; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Moral Sensibility; Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; United States

April 2020
Teaching Note

Tailor Brands: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Branding

By: Jill Avery

Using proprietary artificial intelligence technology, startup Tailor Brands set out to democratize branding by allowing small businesses to create their brand identities by automatically generating logos in just minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; United States; North America