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- 25 Aug 2022
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Full Stream Ahead
Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Back in 1985, when Michael Jackson paid what at the time was an eye-popping $47.5 million for ATV Music—and with it the Beatles’s back catalog—he justified the sum by reportedly saying that, just as...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
pioneering inventions — from the first mass-produced economy car to the push-button radio — and breakthroughs in broadcasting and advertising made them wealthy and famous, as did their ownership of the Cincinnati Reds.
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Growing Home
broadcasting station. Ibaraki prefecture had only one broadcasting station, including TV and radio, so that studio had a monopoly on the airwaves. So we bought a station from Asahi Shimbun newspaper company and turned it around, making it both an internet media...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond
medieval city, partisans marched through the streets, and Free Slovak Radio began broadcasting. The OSS team established their office in a well-appointed villa with “all the trimmings” that had until recently been occupied by the Gestapo,...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
into public stock offerings capitalizing on the boom, only to experience financial heartache when the bubble burst. Sound like the Internet revolution of the 1990s? Try the radio revolution of the 1920s. In a presentation to alumni at a...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
only give you one year.’ That was 10 years ago,” recalls Lee Shaw. The controversial media campaign—which included TV, print, billboard, and radio ads—saturated Montana from 2005 onward, with the effort spreading to six other states....
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
Focusing on miniaturization, Sony became the first mass marketer of small transistor radios and followed with the development of the first transistor-based microtelevision set. Then came the Walkman, the basic VCR, the CD, the CD-ROM, the...
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- 15 Nov 2011
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750 World Wonders and counting
bright blue feet,” he says. “It’s the one place on earth where you feel like you’ve travelled back one million years in a time machine.” Main Wilson attributes his energy and inspiration to his father, Dennis Main Wilson, a well-known View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
has served as the host of business programs on radio and television. The Players Hendersen Photo courtesy BCG Bruce Henderson When one-time Bible salesman Bruce Henderson died in 1992, the Financial Times declared that “few people have...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
ventures they began, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Of those, take one area for closer inspection in search of the HBS imprint - broadcast and cable television. In the mid-1950s, Thomas S. Murphy (MBA '49) found himself managing an upstate New York View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
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Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
listened as they got closer to the target area. When they got close, the second helicopter of the two called back with the radio call Turbine 33 is down. Now, Turbine is the call sign of our helicopter, as in the turbine engine. And 33...
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- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
Journal, and grew to include everything from magazines to radio and TV stations. Warwick Fairfax (MBA 1987), the founder's great-great grandson, grew up with the expectation that he would someday run the company and carry on the family...
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- 04 Oct 2018
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“A Shout Through Time”
ends 73 years later in that same small town with celebration and a sense of closure. The ID bracelet recovered by GRAC at the crash site, and radio operator Richard Perzyk. READ MORE Morrell: In August 2015, a group of amateur Italian...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record
(MBA 1977) Yes, Gold Rush Vinyl should take risks and eliminate supply bottlenecks to speed delivery times. “Rush Vinyl” is two-thirds of the name, and speed is vital. Ever-volatile college radio playlists now track song plays daily. This...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive
scientific advancement, team-building, and international cooperation. And the goal had never been a world record for one man. “We want to open the door for future exploration by science and business,” Vescovo later explained. “Congratulations to you all,” Vescovo View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
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How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
recordings over to Congo, and Central African Republic, and South Sudan where we were helping to build radio stations and broadcast them out to the LRA. Basically, the songs were subverting the brainwashing that a lot of the commanders...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
trillion to date in worldwide government revenues through increased efficiencies in the sale of essential but difficult-to-auction entities ranging from radio wave frequencies to mineral and timber rights. Before the introduction of...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
become the next multimedia empire. As an ad on a Bloomberg radio station once declared, and as Bloomberg himself is demonstrating on a grand scale, "Success is simply information plus imagination." The journey that has culminated with...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc
KOR), a group of Polish intellectuals banded together in support of workers across the country, the first time the two groups had formed such an alliance. In the fall of 1976 one of Waldemar’s classmates heard about KOR through the static of View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Books
his creation of multidivisional structures present a fascinating portrait of one of the century's most impressive business minds. Neil McElroy and D. Paul ("Doc") Smelser of Procter & Gamble introduced soap operas to radio and television...
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