Media Businesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

It's been a busy autumn at HBS. In September, the School successfully launched its first-ever capital campaign (see coverage). A few weeks later, the fall reunions were very well attended. The Alumni Board then held a productive meeting... View Details

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

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

PublicationsTalk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Authors:Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract How can leaders make their big or growing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

study was directed by John A. Deighton, the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The study's principal investigator was HBS research associate Leora D.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

important implications in an election year marked by widespread protests. Harvard Business School Professor Vincent Pons teamed up with Amory Gethin, a fellow economist at the World Bank Development Research Group, to study 14 major... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

sharks” operated illegally, making their customers vulnerable to exploitation. 26 The illegality of the industry also poses a challenge for historians. Because most early salary lenders strove to keep their business under the table,... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

technology and entertainment. Since graduation, his career path has wound its way through pay-per-view television programming and new media business development to his current job as president of E! Online.... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

Career Coach

Martha Tassinari

Business Development, Marketing, Account Management, Strategy, Finance/Accounting, Independent Consulting. Co-raised $14M in venture funding. Early career foundation in Verizon's Finance Leadership Development Program (LDP). View Details

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Profile

Adam Kanner

laptops. Savvy entrepreneurs often find opportunity where others find flaws. For Adam Kanner, a former vice president for marketing and business development for the National Basketball Association, the empty seats triggered a startup... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

have to figure out how do you build a business model. Are media rights going to be the way we monetize? What role do ticket sales have? How do we think about where we host events? How do we think about how... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, a veteran of doing battle with much larger Microsoft, has some words of wisdom on competing against a market giant: "If you want to beat Bobby Fischer, don't play chess." Glaser, president and CEO of the streaming View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

24 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 24

information has increased considerably in the last decade, companies are still failing to disclose material information in a comparable format. We believe this has two downsides. On the one hand, companies are not adequately managing important View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

"Investors should put more emphasis on how brand IP is managed in the environment rather than on the IP asset itself." Paul Jackson adds that "... it's got to be businesses (that defend IP) ... as laws get in the way of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza

talents within the business world, Mendoza joined the HBS A cappella group, Heard on the Street, and the HBS Sound Society, a spinoff of the Entertainment Media Club focused on the music industry, which gave... View Details

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

opportunity to start my own business. I actually wrote the business plan in one of my HBS courses as the final project. I then took this business plan to the bank and was able to secure a loan to start a... View Details

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in to clean house —reflects on how people approach a business bribe. "The stupid ones say, very... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

Horie represented all that is wrong with Western-style capitalism, others saw him as the future of the country's media industry, and a man of the people. But last month, Horie was arrested on suspicion of accounting fraud and illegal... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

01 Oct 2000
News

Books

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 not have experienced its... View Details

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo

View Video Adán Acevedo (MBA 2023) has been selected as the student speaker for Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day celebration, held this year on Wednesday, May 24. Class Day honors graduating students and typically takes place on... View Details

17 Sep 2020
Blog Post

HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic

and Africa. She’s particularly passionate about blockchain, cryptoeconomics, and privacy. humanID is an anonymous Single-Sign-On replacing “Login with Facebook” while also blocking bot-armies and trolls, with the goal to stop fake news and cyber-bullying. It was a... View Details

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