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Harvard Business School - Senior Lecturer
HBO Home Entertainment - Former President
Newsweek - Former Reporter
TEGNA, Inc. - Board Director
Henry W. McGee is a senior lecturer of business administration at Harvard Business School and the former president of HBO Home Entertainment. Born in Chicago in 1953, he graduated from Harvard University in 1974 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1979. He began his career as a reporter for Newsweek from 1974 to 1977 in the magazine's New York and Washington, D.C. bureaus, then joined HBO in 1979 as manager of film acquisition. Over a 34-year career at the network, he held roles including director of Cinemax Program Planning and HBO Family Programming, director of HBO Enterprises, and senior vice president of programming, before being named president of HBO Home Entertainment in 1995. Under his leadership, HBO Home Entertainment expanded video and DVD distribution to more than 70 countries, pioneered internet-based marketing for entertainment products, and oversaw digital and DVD releases of series including The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and Game of Thrones. He retired from HBO in 2013 to join the Harvard Business School faculty, where he co-designed and teaches the course Business of the Arts. McGee sits on the board of directors of TEGNA, Inc., a broadcast and digital media company, since 2015, and of AmerisourceBergen, where he chairs the Governance and Nominating Committee. He is a former director of the Pew Research Center and has served as president of both the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Foundation and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. He was inducted into the Video Hall of Fame and named one of the 50 most powerful African Americans in the entertainment business by Black Enterprise magazine.
Harvard Business School
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Sources
Wikipedia. Henry W. McGee
Harvard Business School. Henry W. McGee - Faculty & Research