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Joseph M. Segel
Home Shopping Network. Believing that he could do better than HSN, Segel introduced a softer sales approach and an expanded customer service function. Though HSN’s success spawned hundreds of “copy-cats,” QVC was its only formidable competitor. Segel built the View Details
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Robert L. Johnson
Johnson created the first and only cable television station with programming for and about black Americans. Though he struggled to gain a subscriber base in the early eighties, Johnson persevered and built a viable enterprise. When he...
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. When HBS opened its first virtual classroom in 2014, the School had just started to experiment with online education. Located at Boston’s public television...
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C. Kemmons Wilson
though operated by a different owner, would be nearly an exact replica of the others, with such amenities as air conditioning, color television and a swimming pool. Because of Wilson’s strict standards and intensive licensee training...
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Restaurants & Lodging
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
New England Conservatory, piano; Yale, psychobiology Speaks: French, Hebrew HBS Show: musical director (2002); writer (2003) Last Summer: associate producer, A Hole in One, Beech Hill Films Previous Career: engagement manager, McKinsey’s Media and Entertainment...
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Arts, Entertainment
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Monica Dodi
As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi says these emerging consumer markets for women and families will...
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New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
Educational Innovation New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning When HBS opened its first virtual classroom in 2014, the School had just started to experiment with online education. Located at Boston’s public television station...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
permitted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is realigning media ownership. Among other changes, the Federal Communications Commission recently relaxed restrictions on ownership of multiple television stations in larger markets, paving...
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Films & TV | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
theatres, educational institutions, and trade and industrial organizations across the country. The corporation also underwrote The U.S. Steel Hour, a television program featuring hour-long dramas that ran from 1953 to 1963. The following...
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- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
7,772, and he widens his lead on retweets. Trump has been tweeting more energetically, but Clinton is way more efficient in number of tweeters per tweet.As she did in 2008, Clinton is relying more heavily on traditional media with over $100 million spent so far on...
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by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
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 Communications has successfully expanded into other media...
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Publishing & Print Media
- March 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Time Warner Inc. vs. The Walt Disney Company (A): Pulling the Plug
Describes negotiation impasse between Time Warner, Inc. and The Walt Disney Co. over the retransmission of the ABC Network over Time Warner's cable systems. More broadly, the case depicts the shifting balance of power between content creators and distributors in the...
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Negotiation Process;
Internet and the Web;
Television Entertainment;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Telecommunications Industry
Watkins, Michael D., and Cate Reavis. "Time Warner Inc. vs. The Walt Disney Company (A): Pulling the Plug." Harvard Business School Case 801-186, March 2001. (Revised August 2001.)
Benjamin Abrams
Along with his brother, Abrams developed the first radio-phonograph combination, which was introduced in 1924. Emerson went on to launch a number of additional “firsts” including a clock radio, a self-powered portable radio, and a midget transistor radio. By 1965, the...
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Computers & Electronics
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
For over twenty years, Boston native Joe Toplyn has written and produced television comedy. His credits include Late Night with David Letterman, for which he won four Emmy Awards; The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; The Late Show with David...
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Walter E. Disney
Disney was a pioneer in the family entertainment business. From his ground-breaking introduction of the animated cartoon Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse in 1928 to the launch of the first full-length animated film in 1937 (Snow White), Disney built a media...
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Edward J. Noble
Noble founded the entity that eventually became Life Savers Incorporated and grew it from a failing mint producer into a global business, with sales of $20 million in the mid-1950s. Noble also founded the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and shepherded it to a...
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Food & Tobacco
Thomas S. Murphy
At the age of 29, Murphy took control of a nearly bankrupt television station in Albany, NY, that would become a launching point for a media empire worth over $5 billion. Through successfully acquiring and integrating over 30 media...
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Homeward Bound
On a bright mid-August morning, a hard-hat crew aided by a massive crane replaced the centuries-old Russian bell atop Baker Library with a newly cast HBS Centennial Bell. The old bell, considered a Russian national treasure, was returned to Moscow’s Danilov Monastery,...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A business career comes full circle
Henry McGee (AB 1974, MBA 1979) spent 34 years at Home Box Office, helping to develop the television company into an international powerhouse. As president of HBO Home Entertainment, the DVD and digital program distribution division, he...
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Desiderio A. Arnaz
In 1951, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball first telecasted their situation comedy - “I Love Lucy,” which was an overnight sensation. Desilu Productions literally created the phenomenon of reruns. Selling the rerun rights of “I Love Lucy” to CBS, Arnaz purchased RKO studios....
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