In Jonathan Knee's article for Barrons, he points out that despite popular belief, newspapers are still more profitable than other types of consumer media. Although profit margins have fallen from levels exceeding 30% to the mid-teens today, this still exceeds margins for movies, music, and books which have often struggled to reach 10%.
Guitar Hero CEO Joins Executive in Residence Program
Dan Rosensweig, the president and CEO of Guitar Hero, a division of Activision, has been appointed Columbia Business School's newest executive in residence.
David del Ser ’08 Named 2009 Echoing Green Fellow
Del Ser hatched the idea for Frogtek while he was a student at Columbia Business School, in partnership with Mark Pedersen ’07.
BRITE ’09 Conference Showcases Innovation in Branding
The two-day event brought together leaders in business, technology, media and marketing to discuss how technology and innovation are transforming the ways that companies build and sustain brands.
Executives in Residence Program Welcomes Zannino
Richard Zannino, former CEO of Dow Jones & Company, is Columbia Business School’s newest executive in residence.
In this article about mobile phone design, Professor Rita Gunther McGrath comments: "There is an awful lot of pressure to keep the wheels turning instead of putting money into new innovation and development."
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Time Warner Chief Executive Gives Candid Advice on Leadership
As part of the Silfen Leadership Series, Richard Parsons spoke on risk taking, accountability and highly publicized CEO resignations.
School and CU Press Launch Publishing Imprint
Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement, by Professor William Duggan, will be the first book published under the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint.
Annual Dinner Honors NBC Universal's CEO Bob Wright and Senator Frank Lautenberg '49
Dean Glenn Hubbard and Annual Dinner Chair Lulu Wang ’83, CEO of Tupelo Capital, welcomed 1,000 guests to the School’s 29th Annual Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria last night.