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Miklos Sarvary

Biography

Miklos is a Carson Family Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. He is a former Dean of Executive Education at INSEAD. For years he worked closely with the school’s Executive Development in his function as the Director of INSEAD’s Learning Innovation Center, a research outlet with the mission to develop innovative teaching formats for executive programs. Before joining INSEAD, Miklos was a faculty member at the Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He studied physics in Hungary’s Eotvos Lorand University, earned an MS in Statistics from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris and a Ph.D. in Management from INSEAD. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked for IBM, selling integrated IT solutions to large financial institutions.

Miklos' most recent research focuses on social networks and new media (metaverses) and how these technologies transform marketing. His recent papers study media competition, online advertising, the structure of the Internet and techniques related to ‘community management’. Previously, he did work on dynamic R&D strategies, information marketing, the worldwide pricing of cellular telephone services and the global diffusion of telecommunications products.

He is Associate Editor of Marketing Science and Quantitative Marketing and Economics and member of the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Research in Marketing and Journal of Interactive Marketing. Miklos has taught executive courses and consulted in various parts of the world for large corporations, including Degussa, Danisco, IBM, INTEL, Nokia, Alcatel, Samsung, Pearson, McKinsey & Co., Dun & Bradstreet and PwC.

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Entrepreneurship

Don’t Dismiss Social Media’s Impact on TV Ratings Yet

NBCUniversal says social media is “not yet a game changer” in influencing television viewing. But its impact is far from insignificant.

Economics & Finance

Should Comcast and Time Warner Cable Be Allowed to Merge?

There are fears that the tie up of the cable giants will only increase their monopoly power. While this is true, it’s not all bad news for customers.
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Strategy

The Future of News

Miklos Sarvary

The diminishing pool of unbiased news networks should stick to what they do best.

Economics & Finance

Net Neutrality: Time for a Bandwidth Market?

Letting the market price internet bandwidth is not a bad idea.
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Marketing

Multi-Homing on Social Networks

Facebook is not going to become irrelevant just because its users also browse other social networks

Entrepreneurship

Will the Cable Bundle Survive?

Recent talk of the decline of the cable television industry may be premature.

Economics & Finance

The Price of Wise Forecasting

Crowds are better at predictions than individuals. But when everyone is doing it, the need for individual experts remains.
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Economics & Finance

Google Under Attack -- Again

Patent wars loom for Google and its Android operating system. Can it defend itself this time?

Marketing

Big Data vs. Don Draper

Big consulting firms with Big Data are trying to muscle in on the advertising business. But do they have the creativity to compete with agencies?

Entrepreneurship

Hollywood Innovation Overtakes Piracy

Movie industry innovation is more than keeping pace with revenue drains caused by piracy.

Marketing

Global advertising spend in 2013

Roughly half way through the year, estimates seem to draw a coherent picture about the size and the various components of the total 2013 advertising spending in the world. Total spend is some half a trillion dollars. About a third of this comes from the US and most of the growth is from the emerging economies.

Marketing

Contradictions about Facebook

Lots of data and commentary came out about Facebook these past few days. One set concerns the membership base. Here, the worry is about peaking membership numbers and an aging user base. Not only seem older users be more interested in Facebook than before but younger ones appear to disengage with it.

Marketing

Video on demand: some news

Video on demand is the hottest topic in media nowadays. Many see it as the next technology ready to disrupt further an otherwise already disrupted traditional media landscape.

Marketing

Evolution of Video Game Industry

This is a really cool chart that appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek (Dec. 10-16, 2012). It shows the share of new game releases for the different game platforms (PC, XBox, Playstation, iPad and their various sequels) for every year between 1975-2012. The chart is complex but closer examination reveals a few fascinating facts

Marketing

Google News in Europe

It seems that European legislators really want to go after Google, especially Google News. Recently, Germany has introduced a proposal that would force Google to pay a fee when showing a snippet of a news story among the results. This move comes after the similar French proposal mentioned by Miklos in a previous post.

Marketing

Traditional media and user-generated content

Traditional media outlets started to regulaly publish content form the web. CNN’s so-called “distraction page” is shown below…

Economics & Finance

Google and France (and Europe)

Today, the French government announced that it will introduce legislation requiring Google to pay a fee to French media sites for listing their content pages. Google promptly responded that in this case it will stop listing French media sites in his search queries. CNN’s report on the conflict can be read here: http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/21/technology/google-french-links/index.html?iid=obinsite.

Marketing

Honesty’s price: CNN and Media bias

A recent article in The Economist (Sept 21, 2012), “Unbiased and unloved” reports the stagnation of CNN’s viewership relative to its competitors. According to data from Nielsen, from 1998-2012, CNN’s daily viewership in the US has been relatively flat averaging 0.5 million viewers while its competitors, Fox News and MSNBC show steady growth. More painfully even, in the last few months, there is a decline for CNN while its competitors benefit – as expected – from the election period. Fox News has over a million daily users while MSNBC has just passed CNN at over 0.4 million.