Media and Broadcasting Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
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a business landscape replete with possibilities, they select a single modern-day example -- the electronic computer -- as the focus of their study. Baldwin and Clark argue that the computer industry could... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up

not very good; we had to change direction significantly. But I believe in getting into the game, getting into an industry, even if your concept isn’t perfect. Then, as you figure out that your idea may be flawed, you’re also learning what’s missing in the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Mar 2008
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

denominator. My own industry is no small part of the problem. We, too, are seeking niches. The fragmentation of the news media means Americans no longer have to listen to the serious discussion of ideas with... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

at the helm (he was knighted in 2000), in 22 years WPP has become a giant with revenues of some $12 billion, offering a full range of services in areas such as advertising, digital and promotional marketing, public relations View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Knowing the Score

Miller Photo courtesy James Andrew Miller Having spent much of my time since graduating from HBS working in television or writing books or movies, I’m often asked why I went to business school in the first place, and whether I regretted... View Details

Keywords: James Andrew Miller; Organizational Behavior; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes

corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies, including the Justice Department, Treasury Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2008
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Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

Good luck with that. Industry fundamentals are corroding so rapidly that they will eat through even the noblest of cross-financing oblige. Newspapers, for one, are seeing the wholesale kneecapping of each ad driver, from classifieds to... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Psychological Association journals such as American Psychologist, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology , and Journal of Diversity in Higher Education . She has also contributed to The Harvard... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Michael Depatie

differentiated product in a commoditized business, even if it’s becoming less so through competition. Some of the stuff we do is fun, and whimsical, so it makes good copy. The media reports on our tall beds... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

because they seem collegial than it is to hire someone different.” “The venture industry is a really great job for women—and for men too—because it’s right on the cutting edge. You’re shaping the future.” —Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993),... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA

result, I definitely felt different as I sought opportunities in a less traditional space — entertainment and media — with a later recruiting time frame. How about you, Sonia? Sonia Sahney: I feel like I’ve... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

2020 is this is the time to be creative. What's needed right now? There are things that are standing out that the world or that the economy needs because of this crisis. And there's opportunities to build businesses to address those... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

Always impressive, the annual conferences organized by HBS student clubs bring together industry leaders, alumni, and students for meetings marked by informative discussions of key business issues. Earlier... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

media and in the classroom. Global Entrepreneurship develops strategies for entrepreneurs and investors in these emerging ecosystems around the globe. The course will have... View Details

Profile

Georges F. Doriot

in promising but risky startup ventures into a groundbreaking industry that reshaped the landscape of American business. Though the terms “visionary” and “genius” are overused in... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Good Luck Charm

corporate giving in the city,” New York’s cultural affairs commissioner Kate Levin told the New York Times (November 12, 2007). Time Warner believes that such philanthropy can help build audiences and spur creative innovation, all of... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Jun 2025
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2025

taught me how to serve citizens with firm friendliness and safely lead a group with very different skill levels in unfriendly or even hostile environments.” Important read: “I fell in love with telco and... View Details

Keywords: leadership; Alumni Achievement Awards

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

about the up-and-coming general manager of Nickelodeon Latin America. “I was interested in the entertainment industry and globalization,” Hill recalls. “The article was about the business, not how she led.”... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

social media sites like Facebook,” Lin says. The founders asked themselves how they might build the app if they had been designing for these users from the start. “We realized that it would look pretty different,” Lin says. They rebuilt... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

earned—and perhaps deserves—a bad reputation in the media recently, the problem is widespread, and cultural change is the only solution. For Richard P. Chapman Professor Boris Groysberg, the tech industry’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

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