Media Forum Annual Meeting
The Forum meets once a year at Columbia Business School in an informal and “off-the-record” half-day program organized around themes of topical importance across all segments of the media industry. The meetings draw upon the high-level resources of the group as well as other leading business figures from both inside and outside the media industry, including the Business School’s distinguished Board of Overseers and members of our world-renowned faculty. The discussion agenda of these meetings focuses on high-profile events and long-range questions about fundamental trends affecting future patterns in information and entertainment based industries and thought-provoking issues of globalization, technology, regulation, and change management. Topics and speakers at past Forum events are listed below.
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| 2013 | Social Media Dan Rose — VP of Partnerships, Facebook Impact of Social on the Consumer Landscape John Bell — Global Managing Director of Social@Ogilvy, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Tina Exarhos — EVP Marketing and Creative, MTV Grant Whitmore — VP of Digital Media, Hearst Magazines The Science of Social Media Duncan Watts — Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Impact of Social on the Business/Professional Landscape Keith Fox — President, McGraw-Hill Construction Scot W. Melland — Chairman, President and CEO, Dice Holdings Stephen Saunders — Founder & Managing Director, UBM DeusM |
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| 2012 | Managing Change and Innovation within Large Established Media Companies William Campbell — Chairman of the Board, Intuit Corporation Rita McGrath — Associate Professor, Columbia Business School Transformational Issues in Media Organizations Will Etheridge — CEO, Pearson Education, North America Eric Kessler — Co-President, HBO Steven Swartz — COO, Hearst Todd Jick — Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business, Columbia Business School |
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| 2011 | Over-the-Top (OTT) Video Impact on the Media Landscape Reed Hastings — CEO, Netflix Michael White — Chairman, CEO & President, DirecTV |
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| 2010 | Impact of Digital Revolution on Communications and Branding David Rogers — Executive Director of BRITE, Columbia Business School Bernd Schmitt — Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business, Columbia Business School Sir Martin Sorell — CEO, WPP Challenges and Opportunities for Media Companies in China Robert Thomson — Editor-in-Chief, Dow Jones Shang-Jin Wei — N T Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, Columbia Business School The State of the Economy Revisited: Is there Another Shoe to Drop? Chris Mayer — Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate and Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School |
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| 2009 | The Great Chase: Media Economics and Metrics Try to Keep Pace with Changing Media Audiences Scott McDonald — SVP Market Research, Conde Nast Publications David Poltrack — Chief Research Officer, CBS Corporation and President, CBS VISION Horst Stipp — SVP Strategic Insights & Innovation, NBC Universal Will Viral Marketing Replace Traditional Media? Oliver Toubia — Glaubinger Professor of Business, Columbia Business School When Will It End? Roger Altman — Chairman & CEO, Evercore Partners |
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| 2008 | Conventional Wisdom versus Quantifiable Results in Media Bruce Greenwald — Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School Managing Change in a Changing Media Environment David Calhoun — Chairman of Executive Board & CEO, The Nielsen Company Success and Failure in Managing Change Eric Abrahamson — Hughie E. Mills Professor of Business, Columbia Business School |
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| 2007 | Impact of the Internet Paul Glasserman — Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business, Columbia Business School How Current Trends in Technology, Media Consumption & Monetization Will Reshape the Media Landscape Dan Rosensweig — COO, Yahoo Advertising 2010: How Big, Who Wins, Who Loses Eric J. Johnson — Norman Eig Professor of Business, Columbia Business School Customized Media in the Internet Age Asim Ansari — William T. Dillard Professor of Marketing, Columbia Business School |
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| 2006 | The Global Economy Dean Glenn Hubbard — Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School Intellectual Property and the Global World Joseph Stiglitz — Executive Director and Co-founder of Initiative for Policy Dialogue and Professor, Columbia Business School The World is Bumpy: Why Everything Thomas Friedman Says is Wrong Bruce Greenwald — Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School Globalization on the Ground Lon Jacobs — Sernior Executive Vice President & Group General Counsel, News Corporation Micheal Fricklas — Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Viacom |
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| 2005 | The Economic Outlook Dean Glenn Hubbard — Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School Valuing Growth in Media Bruce Greenwald — Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School Current Trends in Media Valuation Richard Bilotti — Managing Director, Morgan Stanley |
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