Jonathan Knee
Michael T. Fries Professor of Professional Practice of Media and Technology; Co-Director
Media and Technology Program
BA, Boston University; MSc, Trinity in Dublin, Ireland; MBA, Stanford; JD, Yale
Joined CBS in 2001
Office:
324
Kravis
Phone:
212-854-5246
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-866-1377
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Professor Knee teaches Media Mergers and Acquisitions, co-teaches The Media Industries: Public Policy and Business Strategy with Professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, and co-teaches Digital Investing with Adjunct Professor Jeremy Philips. He also serves as co-director of the Media & Technology Program with Professor Sarvary. Professor Knee is a Senior Advisor at Evercore Partners. Before joining Evercore as a Senior Managing Director in 2003, Professor Knee was a Managing Director and Co-head of Morgan Stanley's Media Group. He was previously Publishing Sector Head in the Communications, Media and Entertainment Group at Goldman Sachs. Prior to becoming an investment banker, he was Director of International Affairs at United Airlines and served as Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post and he is the author of Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education (2017), co-author of Curse of the Mogul (Portfolio:2009) and author of The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street (Oxford: 2006).
Teaching
Spring 2022
Media and Technology Industries: Public Policy and Business Strategy
(MBA)
Mergers & Acquisitions in Media and Technology (Master Class)
(MBA)
Spring 2021
Media and Technology Industries: Public Policy and Business Strategy
(MBA)
Mergers & Acquisitions in Media and Technology (Master Class)
(MBA)
Fall 2021
Spring 2020
Mergers & Acquisitions in Media (Master Class)
(MBA)
The Media Industries: Public Policy and Business Strategy
(MBA)
Fall 2020
Digital Investing
(MBA)
Sports Economics And Policy
(MBA)
Spring 2019
Mergers & Acquisitions in Media (Master Class)
(MBA)
Fall 2019
Digital Investing
(MBA)
Sports Economics And Policy
(MBA)
Spring 2018
The Media Industries: Public Policy and Business Strategy
(MBA)
Fall 2018
Columbia Caseworks cases
Bloomberg LP – More Than the Box?
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Jonathan Knee, Miklos Sarvary
Petersen Publishing (A and B)
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Jonathan A. Knee
Research
Books
The Platform Delusion: Who Wins and Who Loses in the Age of Tech Titans
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Jonathan Knee
Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Jonathan Knee
The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Jonathan Knee, Bruce Greenwald, Ava Seave
The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street
(2006)
Coauthor(s): Jonathan Knee
Web-only articles
All Platforms Are Not Equal
In MIT Sloan Management Review
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Jonathan Knee
Working papers
Agenda Chasing and Contests Among News Providers
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Zsolt Katona, Jonathan Knee, Miklos Sarvary
Case studies
Bloomberg LP -- More Than the Box?
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Jonathan Knee, Miklos Sarvary
Petersen Publishing (A and B)
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Jonathan Knee
Ideas and Insights
In The Media
You Can't Compete against Big Tech Monopolies. But You Can Go after Their Unhappy Customers
Former Amazon Exec's New Book Explains Why the Coming Metaverse — "The Next Internet" — Is Still Far Off, and What Exactly It May Look Like
In an Age of Disasters, a New Book Explains How We Can Better Prepare for Worst-Care Scenarios
‘Platform’ Is the Latest Buzzword to Beguile Investors
Netflix CEO Embraces 'No Rules,' but Work Is Anything but Chill