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Jonathan Knee

Michael T. Fries Professor of Professional Practice of Media and Technology; Co-Director
Media and Technology Program
Jonathan Knee
Contact
Office: 324 Kravis
Phone: (212) 8545246
E-mail: [email protected]
Links
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Knee teaches Digital Investing and Media and Technology Mergers and Acquisitions, and co-teaches The Media and Technology Industries: Public Policy and Business Strategy with Professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School and Sports Economics and Policy with Professor Sunil Gulati of the Economics Department. He also serves as co-director of the Media & Technology Program with Professor Sarvary. Professor Knee is a Senior Advisor at Evercore Partners and has been an investment banker for over thirty years, previously at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post and he is the author of The Platform Delusion (2021) Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education (2017), co-author of Curse of the Mogul (2009) and author of The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street (2006)

Education
BA, Boston University; MSc, Trinity in Dublin, Ireland; MBA, Stanford; JD, Yale
Joined CBS
2001

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  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Awards and Honors
  • Press
  • CaseWorks
  • Journal articles
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  • Articles
  • Books
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Working Paper
Katona, Zsolt, Jonathan Knee , and Miklos Sarvary
. Agenda Chasing and Contests Among News Providers. January 01, 2014.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Knee, Jonathan
. “All Platforms Are Not Equal.”
MIT Sloan Management Review
. September 15, 2017.
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Book
Knee, Jonathan
. The Platform Delusion: Who Wins and Who Loses in the Age of Tech Titans. 
New York
:
Portfolio
, 2021.
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Book
Knee, Jonathan
. Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education. 
New York
:
Columbia Business School
, 2016.
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Book
Knee, Jonathan, Bruce Greenwald , and Ava Seave
. The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies. 
New York
:
Penguin
, 2009.
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Book
Knee, Jonathan
. The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street. 
New York
:
Random House Trade Paperbacks
, 2006.
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  • Courses
  • Case Studies
Course
B8429: Digital Investing
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Course
B8644: Sports Economics And Policy
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Course
B8366: Media and Technology Industries: Public Policy and Business Strategy
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Course
B8498: Mergers & Acquisitions in Media and Technology (Master Class)
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Case Study
Knee, Jonathan and Miklos Sarvary
. Bloomberg LP -- More Than the Box? 
Columbia Business School
:
CaseWorks
, 2014.
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Case Study
Knee, Jonathan
. Petersen Publishing (A and B). 
Columbia Business School
:
CaseWorks
, 2012.
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  • Awards & Honors
  • In the Media
  • Articles
In the Media

Letter: Why Bankers Disqualify Themselves from CEO Roles

Financial Times
In the Media

Court Brawl Reveals Fractious World of Investment Banking

Financial Times
In the Media

Americans Invested Billions in Chinese Companies. Now Their Money Is Stuck.

The New York Times
In the Media

Private Equity: Barbarians at the Hollywood Gates

The Ankler
In the Media

You Can't Compete against Big Tech Monopolies. But You Can Go after Their Unhappy Customers

Inc.
In the Media

Former Amazon Exec's New Book Explains Why the Coming Metaverse - "The Next Internet" - Is Still Far Off, and What Exactly It May Look Like

Insider
In the Media

In an Age of Disasters, a New Book Explains How We Can Better Prepare for Worst-Care Scenarios

Insider
In the Media

Platform' Is the Latest Buzzword to Beguile Investors

The Financial Times
In the Media

Netflix CEO Embraces 'No Rules,' but Work Is Anything but Chill

National Public Radio
In the Media

Silicon Valley's Culture Clash

The New York Times
In the Media

Review: Competing in the Digital Age

The New York Times
In the Media

Professor Profiles: Jonathan Knee, Columbia Business School

mbaMission
In the Media

Education Guru Chris Whittle Tries a Comeback with New School in Brooklyn

The Wall Street Journal
In the Media

Review: ‘Fifty Inventions’ Falls Short of Its Ambitions

The New York Times
In the Media

Why Content Isn't King?

The Atlantic
Article

Columbia Business School Expands Digital Future Initiative

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Article

New Book from Columbia Business School Professor Examines the Pitfalls That Have Doomed Investors’ Efforts to Improve America's Education System

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  • CaseWorks
Case ID
140308

Bloomberg LP — More Than the Box?

Was the supremacy of the once undisputed leader in the financial information industry being challenged in 2013 by new, less expensive ways of communicating with the investment community?

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Case ID
80320

Petersen Publishing (A and B)

Facing skepticism that it overpaid for a magazine publisher, will a young private equity firm find a profitable exit strategy?

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