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Bruce Judson
Born
New York City
Occupation(s)Author, Public Policy Analyst
SpouseNancy Judson[1]
Children2

Bruce Judson (born 1958 in New York City) is an American author, media innovator,[2] and public policy analyst.

Education

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Judson attended Dartmouth College and received a bachelor's degree in Policy Studies in 1980. In 1984, he received a Juris Doctor from the Yale Law School and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.[3] At the Yale Law School, he was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation[4] and was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal in 1984.[5]

Career

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Time warner

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Judson started his career as a consultant and founding member of the New York office of the Boston Consulting Group.[6] In 1989, the Time Inc. Magazine Company appointed him as its first corporate Director of Marketing.[7] After the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications led to the creation of Time Warner Inc., Judson's corporate marketing department served as the focal point for Time Warner's initiative to provide advertisers with advertising programs.[8]

With the creation of Time Inc. New Media, Judson was appointed general manager, where he was one of the co-founders[9] of the Pathfinder (website). Both Walter Isaacson, then President of Time Inc. New Media,[10] and The Columbia Journalism Review[11] credit Judson with inventing the concept of the Web banner ad, which established the standardized system that enabled the rapid growth of Internet advertising.[12]

Judson's activities at Time Inc. New Media are described in Michael Wolff’s book, Burn Rate.[9]

Yale & independent businesses

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Judson left Time Inc. in 1997.[13] He became a Faculty Fellow at the Yale School of Management, and by 2007 was a Senior Faculty Fellow.[14] Yale School of Management announced that he would run a management "clinic," offering free consulting to small businesses.[15] He taught on the Yale Publishing Course[16] and as the first entrepreneur-in-residence at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute.[17] Judson was also active in developing independent businesses,[18] including Web-Clipping (co-founder),[19] (an early online news clipping service for businesses), the business broadband marketplace Speed Anywhere,[20] and a mobile web site development firm.[21] As of December 2015, Judson was a Senior Adviser to Tern Plc.[22]

Britepool, inc.

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After working starting in telehealth in 2017,[23] Judson returned to the media business in 2019, joining BritePool, Inc. as Vice President of Communications.[24]

Author

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In 1996, Judson's first book NetMarketing was published.[25] He was named by Advertising Age as one of the nation's "Cybermarketing Leaders."[7]

In 1999, Scribner published, HyperWars[26] which Judson co-authored. The book asserted that significant changes in corporate strategies would be required for success in the coming Internet era.

In 2004, HarperBusiness published Judson's book, Go it Alone![27] which argued that the combination of software-as-a-service, automation, and outsourcing, enabled by the Internet would fundamentally alter the nature of entrepreneurship and small business success. In the book, Judson also asserted that as a result of automated leverage created by the Internet, small groups of people or individuals, working on their own, would be able to build high-revenue businesses. The book was recognized by Library Journal as one of the best business books[27] published in the year of its release, while Judson's ideas on the future of entrepreneurship was the subject of interviews in The Wall Street Journal[28] and Entrepreneur magazine.[29] Judson partnered with HarperBusiness to test the value of making the full text of Go It Alone! available free online, with advertising support. This first-of-its-kind effort in book publishing[30] was featured in a U.S. News & World Report cover story.[31] In 2012, Entrepreneur magazine dedicated a feature story to the book, and its continuing popularity writing "In a time when the half-life of business books" is [short]...Go It Alone! has remained popular and relevant."[32]

Judson's book, It Could Happen Here,[33] was published in 2009 by HarperCollins. The book argued that growing and extreme economic inequality in the United States was a societal danger. Judson worked with historical and social science research to construct a model which indicated that highly unequal societies are characterized by political polarization, anger, lack of trust, political paralysis, a collapsing middle class and potentially political instability.[34] The book appeared two years before Occupy Wall Street led economic inequality to be considered a mainstream political issue, and at the time the significance of growing economic inequality was often disregarded or seen as unlikely to continue.[35]

Judson was subsequently appointed a Braintruster at the Roosevelt Institute, where he launched a column titled Restoring Capitalism[34] for the institute's website. Articles from the column were syndicated in online media including The Business Insider[36] and The Huffington Post.[37]

Publications

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  • NetMarketing: Your Guide to Profit and Success on the Net (Wolff New Media/Random House, 1996) ISBN 0-679-77031-3
  • HyperWars: 11 Strategies for Survival and Profit in the Era of Online Business (with Kate Kelly) (Scribner, 1999) ISBN 0-684-85564-X
  • Go It Alone! The Secret to Starting a Successful Business on Your Own (HarperBusiness, 2004) ISBN 0-06-073113-3
  • It Could Happen Here: America on the Brink (HarperCollins, 2009) ISBN 978-0-06-188591-4

References

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  1. ^ "Nancy Dolgin Wed to Bruce D. Judson". March 7, 1988. Archived from the original on October 20, 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ^ See "Digital Riptide, What really Happened to the News Business, Interview with Walter Isaacson Shorenstien Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy ("Bruce Judson was on the business side, working with Paul and myself. He came up with the concept of a banner ad.")". and "Who Killed Time Inc.?, The Columbia Journalism Review, February 1, 2018 ("But then, a Time Inc. business manager named Bruce Judson came up with the idea of banner ads")".
  3. ^ "Bestselling Author Bruce Judson '84 Writes New Book, Go it Alone!". Yale School of Management. 3 September 2004.
  4. ^ Judson, Bruce (2008). "Remarks at the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Yale Journal on Regulation". Yale J. On Reg. 25: 331.
  5. ^ Fiss, Owen M. (1983–1984). "Against Settlement". Yale L.J. 93: 1091.
  6. ^ "Nancy Dolgin Wed to Bruce D. Judson". The New York Times. March 7, 1988.
  7. ^ a b Waltner, Charles (September 18, 1995). "Ad Age's Cybermarketing Leaders, Bruce Judson". Advertising Age. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  8. ^ multi-media advertising programs
  9. ^ a b Cortese, Amy (August 3, 1998). "The Wild and Woolly Tale of a Net Startup". Business Week. Archived from the original on October 9, 1999. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  10. ^ Huey, John; Nisenholtz, Martin; Sagan, Paul (September 2013). "Riptide: What Really Happened to the News Business: An oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, 1980 to the present" (PDF). Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Discussion Paper Series. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. pp. 33–34. Walter Isaacson, "But I remember vividly the day in mid-1994 or so when Bruce Judson (who worked on the business side of Pathfinder) came up with the concept of a banner ad"
  11. ^ "Who Killed Time Inc.?, The Columbia Journalism Review, February 1, 2018 ("But then, a Time Inc. business manager named Bruce Judson came up with the idea of banner ads")".
  12. ^ "WNYC Interview with Walter Isaacson". p. 16;25 to 18:50 minutes in playback.
  13. ^ "Head of New-Media Unit At Time Inc. Steps Down". The Wall Street Journal. April 14, 1997.
  14. ^ "Yale SOM Seeks Local Organizations to Receive Consulting Assistance Through New Management Clinic" (Press release). Yale School of Management.
  15. ^ "Yale School of Management offers free business consulting". USAToday.com. August 2, 2007.
  16. ^ Bergsma, Jillian. "YPC for Small Presses: Kamehameha Publishing "Two Heads are Better Than One"". Independent Publisher.
  17. ^ Faller, Avery (June 13, 2011). "Point/Counterpoint: Go It Alone/It Takes A Village". Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  18. ^ "Appearances Are Deceiving". The Wall Street Journal. September 19, 2005.
  19. ^ "Start-Up Finds Quick Success In Tracking Business 'Buzz': All Research's Webclipping Service Breaks The Rules". Advertising Age. April 12, 1999.
  20. ^ "The Need for Speed". BtoB. March 29, 2001.
  21. ^ "Mobile commencement site helps Yale handle train crash". University Business magazine. July 2013.
  22. ^ "Appointment of Senior Adviser" (PDF) (Press release). Tern plc. 4 December 2014.
  23. ^ Sweeney, Evan (August 10, 2017). "What healthcare providers can learn from the retail industry's confrontation with Amazon". FierceHealthcare.
  24. ^ "Identity Resolution".
  25. ^ "Book Excerpt: Building Profits On The Internet Case Studies, Interaction, Clarity of Message Are Key". Advertising Age. September 9, 1996.
  26. ^ Judson, Bruce. "Hyperwars: 11 Strategies for Survival and Profit in the Era of Online Business".
  27. ^ a b Judson, Bruce (26 October 2004). Go It Alone!: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own. ISBN 0060731133.
  28. ^ Chozick, Amy (May 9, 2005). "Avoid The Pitfalls, An entrepreneur talks about how you know whether you have what it takes". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  29. ^ Wang, Jennifer (February 15, 2010). "Employees. Who Needs 'Em? Should you outsource everything?". Entrepreneur. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  30. ^ "HarperCollins Publishes Entire Book on the Web Tests Advertising Business Model; Go It Alone! To Appear Online With Contextual Ads". Business Wire. February 6, 2006.
  31. ^ "Bruce Judson's Go It Alone! Featured in U.S. News". Yale School of Management. March 16, 2006.
  32. ^ Daley, Jason (March 27, 2012). "A Roadmap to Self-Reliance for Solopreneurs". Entrepreneur. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  33. ^ Judson, Bruce (6 October 2009). It Could Happen Here. ISBN 978-0061689109.
  34. ^ a b Covert, Bryce. "Bruce Judson on the Societal Dangers of Income Inequality". Roosevelt Institute. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  35. ^ Fox, Justin (September 15, 2009). "Income inequality will keep getting worse until we do something about it". Time.com. Bruce Judson doesn't buy the argument, made on the front page of the WSJ last week, that "the deepest downturn in the U.S. economy since the Great Depression may finally shrink the gap between the very best-off Americans and everyone else."
  36. ^ Judson, Bruce (November 18, 2011). "Providing The Highest Rewards To The Financial Sector Is Not Capitalism". Business Insider. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  37. ^ Judson, Bruce (October 21, 2011). "BRUCE JUDSON: Providing The Highest Rewards To The Financial Sector Is Not Capitalism". Huffington Post. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
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