Brian Murray (HarperCollins) - A Story of Change and Opportunity

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2012

⏱️ 59 minutes

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HarperCollins President and CEO Brian Murray discusses the shifting economics of publishing and how his company, which launches 12 new products per day, is working to succeed in this disruptive period. In conversation with STVP Executive Director Dr. Tina Seelig, Murray also talks about issues of digital rights management, his company's willingness to explore new business models, and how HarperCollins manages relationships with other major players in the space.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	It is my sincere pleasure to introduce our guest today.
0:21.2	Brian Murray comes to us from New York.
0:23.1	He is the president and CEO of Harper Collins.
0:26.2	But even more fun for me, I just discovered as we were walking around campus
0:29.5	that we actually are twins separated at birth.
0:33.4	Actually, almost really, we both were born in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
0:38.2	Go figure.
0:39.5	We also, he lives in Summit, New Jersey.
0:41.8	I grew up in Summit, New Jersey.
0:43.9	We both worked at Booz Allen after we graduated from graduate school.
0:47.8	And, of course, we're both related to Harper Collins since I just have two books that I've published with Harper Collins,
0:52.6	and he's the president's CEO.
0:53.5	So I couldn't be more delighted to...
0:58.0	It's a small world, right?
1:00.0	Exactly, really small world.
1:01.0	So it's a huge pleasure.
1:03.0	And I figured that we would start out with you're telling us a little bit about your career history.
1:06.0	Because we have lots of CEOs and entrepreneurs and venture capitalists come to speak to us,
1:11.6	but we've never had a book publisher.
1:13.6	And this is an incredibly important industry.
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