Media Businesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2009
News

When More Is Better

One of the things I enjoy most about my job is learning about all the amazing undertakings of the School’s 70,000-plus graduates. HBS alumni, it seems, command a fair amount of media attention, much of it for View Details

Keywords: meta

02 Jul 2024
News

The Beauty Guide

social media and trends among the younger generation—how its feeling about the pandemic and hybrid work. She’s also helped Freyre keep a pulse on the next cohort of leaders. Because, ultimately, that’s what this is all about: positioning... View Details

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

Conversely, I’ve heard investors say they wish the leaders of their portfolio companies would be more transparent about challenges they are facing and ask for help. As one investor said to me, “They already sold me on the business and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

Allen H. Neuharth

When Neuharth joined Gannett, its business consisted of acquiring and managing small-town newspapers. During his tenure, he grew the publishing company into a billion-dollar business through his aggressive... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

Harrison G. Otis

Otis purchased the Los Angeles Times in 1886 just as the city was experiencing a population boom. Otis contributed to the population boom by actively promoting the city’s business opportunities in the Times. In addition, Otis was... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

21 May 2021
News

See Us Unite for Change

Lirio Marcelo (MBA 1998), the founder of Care.com and TAAF board member, is an executive producer of the event. “Not only are business leaders, activists and talent coming together to support this cause, but we have networks and View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Tech Club | MBA

Tech Club To make Harvard Business School a global leader in the high tech and new media industries; to build a vibrant community of people with interest in high-tech and new media; to provide networking... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

The Rankings Game

Illustration by John Kachik Depending on which business school ranking you consult, the best MBA program in 2010 was at the University of Chicago, HBS, the London Business School, or Stanford University.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Aug 2022
News

Action Plan: Fired Up

plans for revitalizing operations, strategy, technology, and marketing—a reality that became evident almost immediately. “Culture is so important to me, I don’t know how I missed it,” Andrus concedes. A 2019 Harvard Business Review... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; company culture; barbecue; entertaining; food; marketing; brand

01 Dec 2011
News

Ticktock

Sleepyheads, Beware: An alarm clock that doesn’t mess around. Photo courtesy Nanda Home Related Links Watch Nanda explain Clocky See Tocky, the newest product Purchase the original Clocky case Purchase the "Life After Clocky" case In the spring of 2005, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details

04 Sep 2013
News

From HBO to HBS

that have happened in the media business over the past three-plus decades," McGee said over coffee in Spangler Grill during a visit to campus last spring, noting that when he joined HBO it was a single... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; HBSO; HBS; faculty; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2008
News

Listen Up

All eyes are fixed on Jim Aisner, the maestro of HBS campus tours, as he spoke to a group of alumni and their families in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center on the opening day of the Centennial Global Business Summit, Sunday, October 12.... View Details

Keywords: campus tours

03 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

sharks can affect efforts to save them. “Negative public opinion and fear of sharks continues to hinder conservation efforts,” says Elizabeth Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit of Harvard Business School, and a co-author... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting

Fast Answer

India - Industry specific research

product/component. MediaNama: News & Analysis of Digital Media in India Covers internet, telecom,... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

An Encore for the MBA Oath

300 members of the Class of 2010 who gathered in Burden Auditorium on Class Day for a pledge ceremony. The students were joined by several hundred family members and friends. Last year, roughly half of the Class of 2009 signed the oath, an event that generated... View Details

Keywords: MBA Oath

01 Dec 2022
News

Contributing to a Better Future

their world. “The early results show that trust in most major institutions is declining. People trust the government less, they trust the media less, they trust religion less,” says Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo... View Details

Keywords: April White

May 2014 (Revised July 2016)
Case

RCA: Color Television and the Department of Justice (A)

By: Willy C. Shih and Gregory Dieterich

This case examines the early history of the color television receiver market and the global consequences of an historic 1958 consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice that opened RCA's patents to licensing by domestic competitors royalty-free. This externality... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Patents; Rights; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Business History; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; Japan

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01 Jun 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over

and so forth. The ever-intensifying social media buzz around the Cup can heighten interest and exposure, but it also can create a lot of distracting "noise" that marketers can't control. What's in it for Brazil? If there's logistical... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

May 2014
Supplement

RCA: Color Television and the Department of Justice (B)