Media Businesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2020
News

Bounce Back from a Blunder

Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong If mistakes are bound to happen—like death and perhaps taxes—then leaders need to let them be seen, says Victoria Montgomery Brown (MBA 2003), CEO and cofounder of the digital View Details

02 Jan 2019
News

Not Waiting for Progress

international film festivals. The foundation has also established dynamic relationships with media companies such as NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Netflix, and HBO. Talented and Together Throughout his career, in a variety of View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

The cover of last January's Harvard Business Review featured the subhead, "When it's OK to fake it till you make it." “Faking it” is the antithesis of authentic leadership. Following this advice is the most likely path to... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

14 May 2020
Blog Post

A PRIDE Farewell

of the Victory Fund, Annise Parker. Implemented a club Slack to better foster community and grassroots communications and organizing. Shared our stories through multiple MBA Voices blog posts, a “We Are HBS” podcast, and ongoing social View Details

26 May 2016
News

Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971

and then came to HBS, where he graduated with distinction. Horn thrived as Perenchio’s business associate and eventually was asked—by producer Lear—to oversee the creative side of the business. Initially met with skepticism by the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Robert L. Johnson

firm to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. With the capital infusion from the public offering, Johnson expanded his business operations – moving into film production, publishing, and new programming. By the end of the nineties, BET... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

Fast Answer

Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

taverns,buffets & cafeterias -social media marketing and restaurant apps -brand management Mintel - consumer market studies and primary and secondary data analysis (primarily for European and US countries) for... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Winter Break Just Got Educational

have transformed China over the past 25 years. The itinerary included academic and media panel presentations on a variety of topics affecting China and networking events with HBS alumni. Students also met with corporate executives and... View Details

Keywords: immersion; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

June 2018
Supplement

Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (C)

By: Marco Di Maggio, Benjamin C. Esty and Gregory Saldutte

Analyzes Snap’s value and analyst recommendations following the events described in the (B) case. View Details

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10 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 10

paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2316198 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 512-049 Bluefin Labs Bluefin Labs built a system that gathered, from Twitter and other sources, millions of hourly social View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2000
What Do You Think?

Succession at GE: What’s Next?

important qualities and capabilities to be sought in a successor to Welch is moot. But as in any good Harvard Business School case discussion, hindsight provides neither a guide to the future nor necessarily the best response. With that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

how many customers are sold but by how many are served ” Doing so, he continued, requires business leaders to commit to operating within a set of principles that include honest, transparency, humility, and love. Peter Schein, who... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2014
News

The Digital Deck

As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Profile

Stephanie Tilenius

infancy as a business medium, Stephanie “and a handful of us from the West Coast” formed the Computing, Media and Communications Club, HBS’ first student organization focused on emerging, Web-based... View Details

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-043.pdf Media versus Special Interests Authors:Alexander Dyck, David Moss, and Luigi Zingales Abstract We argue that profit-maximizing media helps overcome the problem of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

Associates How and why investors structure deals How PE firms add value How investors screen and choose investments Getting a deal through the Investment Committee Role of debt providers and where incentives overlap and diverge Different PE 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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Sep 2018
News

What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)

a media executive with 20 years of experience in strategy and business transformation who joined the foundation in February. “In AMP we talked about finding our North Star,” she says. “I’m fortunate because... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

03 Mar 2016
News

3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)

enforcement, and intelligence—that had never been brought in a systematic way to the business world. We all make high-stakes decisions that can punctuate the course of our lives—who to hire, who to work for, who to vote for, which deal to... View Details