HarperCollins
Brian Murray is President and Chief Executive Officer of HarperCollins, a subsidiary of News Corporation. He oversees the HarperCollins global book publishing operations in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, India and China. He was appointed to this position in June, 2008.
Murray joined HarperCollins in 1997 and held several positions in the General Books Group until 2001, when he was named Chief Executive Officer of HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand. During his three years the business grew to new heights while expanding its local publishing program to award-winning status. In 2004, he returned to HarperCollins in the United States as Group President where he expanded the business. Murray was promoted to President of HarperCollins Worldwide in July 2007; in this role he was responsible for the General Books Group in the United States, HarperCollins Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and China. He also led the development of worldwide growth initiatives, including the company's digital strategy, creation of a global digital warehouse, and plans for international expansion.
Prior to joining HarperCollins, Murray was a consultant in the Media Practice at Booz Allen & Hamilton, one of the country's leading consulting firms.
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Last Updated: Mon, Apr 2, 2012
| Category | Title | Author/Speaker | Organization | Length | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Podcast | A Story of Change and Opportunity | Brian Murray · Tina Seelig | HarperCollins | 59:06 | 05/2012 |
| Video | Changes in the Publishing Industry | Brian Murray | HarperCollins | 02:30 | 05/2012 |
| Video | When You Launch 12 Products a Day | Brian Murray | HarperCollins | 03:58 | 05/2012 |
| Video | Content Creators as the Brand | Brian Murray · Tina Seelig | HarperCollins | 01:51 | 05/2012 |
| Video | Publishers Act as Venture Capitalists | Brian Murray · Tina Seelig | HarperCollins | 01:51 | 05/2012 |
| Video | Finding the Right Digital Ecosystem | Brian Murray | HarperCollins | 02:08 | 05/2012 |
| Video | On Digital Rights Management | Brian Murray | HarperCollins | 00:57 | 05/2012 |
| Video | Partners as "Frenemies" | Brian Murray · Tina Seelig | HarperCollins | 02:08 | 05/2012 |
| Video | What Engineers Bring to the CEO Role | Brian Murray · Tina Seelig | HarperCollins | 01:34 | 05/2012 |
| Video | A Story of Change and Opportunity [Entire Talk] | Brian Murray · Tina Seelig | HarperCollins | 57:46 | 05/2012 |
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.
HarperCollins CEO and President Brian Murray describes how the publishing industry landscape has fundamentally changed since he arrived at the company in the late 1990s.
HarperColliins CEO and President Brian Murray shares some interesting statistics from his company's operations. As the world's third-largest English language publisher, the company must re-invent its revenue streams each year, says Murray, and contend with supplying content to new platforms while launching, on average, 12 new products per day.
According to Brian Murray, CEO and president of HarperCollins, the publishing industry has traditionally functioned using a business-to-business model, eschewing direct relationships with consumers. In conversation with STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig, Murray explains why his company puts its authors forward as the brand.
Brian Murray explains why publishing companies function much like venture capitalists, investing millions of dollars a year into developing new products in a culture business. Here the CEO and president of HarperCollins also articulates how the company leverages their understanding of the marketplace when placing bets on authors and projects.
HarperCollins CEO and President Brian Murray talks about challenges and opportunities he sees on the horizon in the publishing industry. One of the primary issues, says Murray, is ensuring that the right digital ecosystem exists to continue to produce, market and sell books.
The issue of using digital rights management (DRM) technologies on content is a complicated one, says HarperCollins CEO and President Brian Murray. Here he shares both the benefits and disadvantages of DRM, and describes tests being conducted to find a solution balancing a company's intellectual property rights with consumer desire to transfer files.
As a powerful distribution channel and a growing competitor in publishing, Amazon plays a disruptive role in the publishing industry. HarperCollins CEO and President Brian Murray describes the "complicated relationship" publishers have with Amazon, who is a partner they work with and compete against. "The term 'frenemy' is a great term to capture what business is like today," says Murray, here in conversation with STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig.
In response to a question from STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray explains how his early engineering background continues to serve him as leader of a major publishing company. Murray believes engineers are solvers of complicated problems by training, and that, "a publishing company, any company, is one big, complex problem" needing to be solved.
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.