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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
With a value estimated by Forbes magazine of over $480 million, the team ranks in the top third financially among MLB franchises. Even before last season’s title, the Giants’ fall pennant run yielded 4,000 new season ticket requests. Merchandise sales, View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
number of available channels grew rapidly. CNN made world news available nearly instantaneously and delivered it 24/7. And what once was seen and heard only on television is now “rebroadcast” via the Internet. “Obviously, things have...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies include: Automobiles (electric vehicles) Bookstores (Internet sales) Department stores (discounters) Doctors (nurse-practitioners) Health insurance (HMOs) Mainframe computers (desktops) Motorcycles (dirt bikes) Network View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision, were pioneering what would become...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
of Children's Television Workshop in New York, which produces educational TV programs for children such as Sesame Street, is finding that using business strategy has been critical to the success of his nonprofit organization. "In an...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
sister cities. They’re both industry towns, and in many ways the marketing campaign for a movie or a television show is not unlike a campaign for a political candidate. You’re trying to inform people, arm them with information, remind...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Chinese imports are flooding the domestic market. China recorded a $124 billion trade surplus with the United States last year, the biggest bilateral trade imbalance in history. Trade friction escalated late last year when the U.S. government slapped Chinese View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
senior executives. They encouraged him, for instance, when he made early forays into television advertising in the 1960s and when he suggested that Tylenol, originally available only from physicians and hospitals, be sold as a consumer...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the eighth grade, and played football. Another classmate, Rich Eustis, later became an Emmy-winning television writer; Eustis confessed to TV Guide that he based the character of Eric Mardian — the leather-jacketed genius in the ABC...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
the tools to drive this small business into a multimillion-dollar international business.” Close friend Francine LeFrak, an award-winning New York City television producer and president of LeFrak Productions, describes Russo as “a force...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Harvard Business School. In an effort to ensure parity and competitiveness among all its teams—and thereby stoke fan interest—the NFL literally shares the wealth: Some 60 percent of its nationally generated television and merchandising...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
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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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
on their laurels"—are messages he has offered as the author of two books on brand management, an expert commentator in television and print media, and a speaker at major conferences and events. "Consulting companies need to establish a...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
some truly Olympian details to take care of, including planning for 2 million spectators (joined by 3 billion television viewers, or 60 percent of the human race); 15,000 athletes and officials from 197 participating countries; 30...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
1996, and she moved back to the States, taking a job as vice president of operations with Warner Brothers Television in Los Angeles. "What I missed most about America was the attitude that you can be anybody and still get ahead in the...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
have successful careers, we wanted to have successful lives." In Denver, Judith G. Allen (MBA '83) also managed to parlay her career skills into a parttime consulting business after leaving the fulltime workforce. An executive in the cable View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
audio broadcasting technology to bring satellite radio to all corners of Africa. Koos Bekker, managing director of Naspers, a leading media and communications group in South Africa, discussed his firm's Internet and pay television...
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Susan Young
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
COVID-19 across eight countries over a six-week period. “The HBS community came together to mobilize civic society,” says Ghose of the endeavor, which reached 170 cities in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and beyond. “Avinash Pandey (AMP 193) gave wings to the mission by...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
eventually made the leap to wearing the white garments that remind us of our commitment to living our spirituality daily," he says. The former real-estate developer and president of Time-Life Television is now CEO of Sun & Son, a computer...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
of video editing equipment for television and movies). Cox likens the art of picking winners to a Rorschach test. "You see a lot of spots out there," he says, "but you have to be able to say at some point, 'This one looks like a picture.'...
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