Katharine Graham
1 appearance on the record.
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Statements about Katharine Graham, by other people (11)
The Washington Post's $40M acquisition of Kaplan eventually became worth billions
“The most per seant move came in 1984 when managers proposed buying Kaplan, a test preparation company, for forty million dollars. Within two decades, Kaplan's revenues would surpass those, the newspapers, and become the company's largest profit center. That ca…”
Effective executive hires often cause internal discomfort and bypass corporate politics
“Sometimes the best hire is the one that makes everyone else uncomfortable. Catherine chose talent over internal politics and an outsider's perspective over insider loyalty.”
Parrish: The only way to assert the right to publish is to publish
“The only way to assert the right to publish is to publish.”
Granting operational freedom requires enforcing maximum transparency and no surprises
“Maximum freedom requires maximum transparency.”
Katharine Graham Became the First Female Fortune 500 CEO
“That she would become the first woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company.”
Parrish: Zero Fortune 500 CEOs were female in 1963
“In 1963, there were zero female CEOs in the Fortune 500 companies.”
Katharine Graham returned a fabricated Pulitzer Prize and published an apology
“In 1981, when a Post reporter's Pulitzer Prize-winning story turned out to be fake, Graham didn't cover up or deflect. The Post returned the Pulitzer, published a front-page apology, and investigated the circumstances surrounding the incident.”
Washington Post revenues grew from $84M to $1.4B under Katharine Graham
“When Catherine Graham took over in 1963, the Washington Post Company had revenues of eighty four million. By 1991, when she stepped down as CEO, revenues reached 1.4 billion, a 20 fold increase that beat the market by orders of magnitude.”
Katharine Graham was pleased her father offered The Post to her husband
“She wrote in her memoir, far from troubling me personally, that my father thought of my husband and not me. It pleased me. In fact, it never crossed my mind that he might have viewed me as someone to take on an important role with the paper.”
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Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers] | Jul 29, 2025 | 40s |