Harvard Business School Publishing
industry: B2B/Business Information / Education / Not For Profit
Function: General Management / Marketing
Successful placements
Hallett Johnson III Named Chief Marketing Officer for Harvard Business School Publishing
Boston
B2B/Business Information, Education, Not For Profit
We are pleased to announce the successful completion of the search for the Chief Marketing Officer for Harvard Business School Publishing. The newly appointed executive is Hallett Johnson III. Hallett is a world-class, marketing and operations executive in publishing and new media. He has over 25 years of expertise in publishing and consumer marketing. Hallett’s current position/role is head of a publishing consultancy he founded called J3Media. Prior to this consulting role, Hallett was the President and CEO of Anything Southern.com, an Internet Start-up. Hallett worked in a variety of roles at Time Warner for over 20 years, first at Time Life Books where he became Vice President, Marketing Services. Then, at Southern Progress Corporation, a subsidiary of Time Warner, became the Vice President of Circulation, and quickly rose to become Vice President, Publisher & General Manager.
Henry Boye has been named Publisher of Harvard Business Review
Boston
B2B/Business Information, Education, Not For Profit
Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP) has announced that Henry "Hank" Boye has been named publisher of Harvard Business Review (www.hbr.org). Mr. Boye, formerly general manager of the National Journal Group, will lead the magazine’s commercial activities, including worldwide advertising sales, consumer marketing, and business development.
As general manager of the National Journal group, the Washington, D.C-based policy and politics unit of Atlantic Media Company, Boye had responsibility for four magazines, including the weekly National Journal. In his first two years there, the group generated 35% revenue growth and nearly tripled profits. Boye also led a relaunch of the group’s digital media platform, which included expanding into new channels such as mobile platforms. Previously, Boye was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company in Pittsburgh. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
"Hank has an impressive track record of building and expanding the reach and profitability of an influential media brand," said Thomas Stewart. "His leadership skills and media savvy will be a terrific boost to our ongoing efforts to expand worldwide readership, create new integrated opportunities and services for advertising partners, and deliver on our mission to improve the practice of management."
David Wan, Chief Executive Officer of HBSP, said, "We’re delighted Hank is joining us as publisher of Harvard Business Review--our flagship publication and one of the most respected magazine brands in the world. His strategic vision will be a vital asset as HBSP continues to grow its portfolio of products and services for individual managers around the world."
David Goehring Named Vice President and Director of Harvard Business School Press
Boston
B2B/Business Information, Education, Not For Profit
David Goehring, 53, has been named Vice President and Director of Harvard Business School Press, the book publishing unit of Harvard Business School Publishing, effective October 27, 2003. Goehring is a highly regarded publishing professional, who over the past five years led the growth of Perseus Publishing with numerous market-leading books and key strategic acquisitions and publishing partnerships while skillfully managing operations for increased profitability. Prior to running Perseus, Goehring spent a decade at Addison Wesley Longman (Pearson), directing its General Publishing Group. Goehring succeeds Carol Franco, formerly Vice President and Director of HBS Press. Franco will assume the role of Editor-at-Large for Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), a corporate position responsible for identifying new ideas and authors suitable for publication across HBSP’s varied publishing platforms. Goehring was nominated by Literary Marketplace as Publisher of the Year in 1996 for the many bestsellers, award winners, and category-leading books he published while VP and Publisher of Addison Wesley Longman. A few of the more noteworthy books he published were The Temple Bombing (Melissa Fay Greene), Mama Makes Up Her Mind (Bailey White), and Salvation on Sand Mountain (Dennis Covington). He also led the company’s strategic redesign and refocusing of its product portfolio, resulting in significantly improved financial results as well. Goehring also served as Vice President and Director of Retail Sales and Marketing at Addison Wesley Longman. Earlier, he served first as Director of Sales and then as Director of Marketing for Little, Brown & Company, where he led campaigns for numerous successful books, including Blue Highways (William Least Heat Moon), Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, and The Winds of War (Herman Wouk). He began his publishing career at Simon and Schuster, becoming National Sales Manager before moving to Little, Brown. David Goehring holds a BA in English from Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1972 and an MA in English from the University of Michigan, which he earned in 1974.
Chief Executive Officer
Boston
B2B/Business Information, Education, Not For Profit
