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Joseph P. Knapp
Knapp took control of his father's small printing operation and transformed it into a publishing empire. He established the American Lithographic Company in 1895 where he invented a multicolor six cylinder press. He used this press to... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
educational institutions. A Democracy Is Born: An Insider’s Account of the Battle against Terrorism in Afghanistan by Matthew J. Morgan (MBA ’07) (Greenwood Publishing Group) In October 2004, more than 8 million citizens of Afghanistan... View Details
Edward T. Lewis
Lewis was publisher of Essence Magazine, the first black high-fashion magazine. First published in 1970, the magazine had a circulation of 850,000 by 1988. With the magazine as its base business, Essence... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 30 Jul 2010
- News
Notes from a Hammock
best-selling trilogy of mysteries. The Girl was published in 2005, but it sometimes seems Larsson is writing after the meltdown of 2008, and with the benefit of hindsight. His hero, Mikael, an investigative business journalist, speaks... View Details
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Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
William F. Kerby
Kerby was responsible for building the Wall Street Journal into the second largest national newspaper in the Unites States with a circulation in excess of 2 million. He championed the company’s diversification from a one-newspaper journal into a worldwide View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 30 Jan 2006
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The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
take-charge author, the publishing industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first... View Details
James H. McGraw
McGraw was the founder of both the magazine and book publishing empire. The firm originally specialized in publications for the technical field, but soon expanded into other disciplines, such as textbooks for colleges and high schools.... View Details
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Frank A. Munsey
Frank Munsey revolutionized the publishing industry by bringing financial rigor to the business. Munsey was a pioneer in connecting advertising prices to circulation volume making large-scale magazine production affordable and profitable.... View Details
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Walter D. Fuller
Fuller successfully stepped into Cyrus Curtis’ role and led the publishing company through 25 years of top level financial performance. He expanded the base of the company’s publications – most notably, the Saturday Evening Post – and... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Apr 2001
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Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
encounter with the 78-year-old business magazine. Wetlaufer joined HBR as a senior editor in 1996 and was named editor last October. She has worked with many of the world’s experts on leadership and organization to publish groundbreaking... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
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Catering to women consumers
Time Inc. former chairman and CEO Ann Moore (MBA 1978) changed the landscape of magazine publishing—and advertising—when she introduced Real Simple and InStyle. (Published January 2015) View Details
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Turbulent Stability of Emergent Roles: The Dualistic Nature of Self-Organizing Knowledge Co-Production
By: Ofer Arazy, Johaness Daxenberg, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Oded Nov and Irene Gurevych
Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-organizing co-production community models with ambiguous role definitions. Current theories struggle to explain how high-quality knowledge is developed in these settings and how... View Details
Keywords: Wikipedia; Knowledge Production; Organizational Structure; Knowledge; Information Publishing
Arazy, Ofer, Johaness Daxenberg, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Oded Nov, and Irene Gurevych. "Turbulent Stability of Emergent Roles: The Dualistic Nature of Self-Organizing Knowledge Co-Production." Information Systems Research 27, no. 4 (December 2016): 792–812.
- 01 Jun 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and... View Details
- 29 May 2014
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Oscar Dystel, Who Saved Bantam Books, Dies at 101
- September 2018
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What Does It Take to Change an Editor's Mind? Identifying Minimally Important Difference Thresholds for Peer Reviewer Rating Scores of Scientific Articles
By: Michael Callaham and Leslie John
Study objective—We define a minimally important difference for the Likert-type scores frequently used in scientific peer review (similar to existing minimally important differences for scores in clinical medicine). To our knowledge, the magnitude of score change... View Details
Callaham, Michael, and Leslie John. "What Does It Take to Change an Editor's Mind? Identifying Minimally Important Difference Thresholds for Peer Reviewer Rating Scores of Scientific Articles." Annals of Emergency Medicine 72, no. 3 (September 2018): 314–318.e2.
- 01 Dec 2005
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A Matter of Opinion
the barricades against it. Navasky, who stepped down last month as publisher of The Nation magazine, is an unapologetic gadfly and afflicter of the comfortable. But that doesn’t mean he’s obnoxious or cranky. Indeed, this genial,... View Details
Conde M. Nast
Nast transformed his first magazine, Vogue, from a low revenue and low readership publication into a premier fashion magazine that generated millions in revenues. Such turnarounds were typical of most Nast publications, including Glamour and Home and Garden. In... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Dec 2011
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Rising Star
Now back in South Africa and the publisher of two leading business and lifestyle magazines—one for men and one for women—Dhlomo seems destined for great things. She was selected a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2010, and this... View Details