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16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

advent of the iPod is fascinating [October 24, 2001: "Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player"]. So is the piece on "pocket phones" [September 25, 1991: "Where Silence Was Golden,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

Almost all our students are capable of being entrepreneurs. Still, even if people have innate musical talent, you can't necessarily teach them to become Beethoven. But if they have that innate talent, then they probably would still... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806153 L. Londell McMillan 805-084 On the plane back to New York City, L. Londell McMillan focused on the music on his headphones, the latest offering... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

Many Choices Companies Must Forget—and Borrow The Business of Crowdsourcing Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation Who Has the Power in the Music Industry? View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

June 17, 2016
Comment

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

By: John A. Quelch

Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of business at least temporarily by a terrorist act. Not far away... View Details

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30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

addressable market of $280 billion. That’s music to the ears of small businesses. Indeed, our research shows a sizeable credit gap exists for small businesses, particularly for loans under $100,000, which is the size that over 60 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

far enough. They stopped asking the next round of innovation questions, leaving Apple to reap the benefits from recognizing that the crucial thing wasn't just the device itself, but the magical way in which the entire music industry could... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

and Sara Moore, who connected the dots between neural activity and success in the music industry. In a seminal lab experiment, teenagers listened to a series of new, relatively unknown songs while lying inside an fMRI machine. The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

03 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 3

music and K-drama television shows in Asian countries, Chairman Jay Lee, of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, believed that the time was ripe for taking Korean cultural content to the West. One initiative, carried out by the Group's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

incorporating offices, shops, restaurants, music auditoriums, a hotel, and luxury apartments on Columbus Circle in Manhattan. Tracing the process by which Related became the site developer, the case examines the risks and rewards of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

parties, music events, knitting circles, culinary demonstrations, and other events. Several stores Raffaelli visited reported staging over 500 events a year. “Bookstores have always been a place where people could convene and have a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

from non-obvious, second-order effects. There's an awful lot going on, in science, in medicine, in the arts. One episode that we describe in the book as the type of rich interaction that can be achieved is a long-distance cello master class. During the colloquium, we... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

for savvy dealmakers. The siren song of real estate never sounded so sweet. Then the music stopped. Dan Dubrowski (HBS MBA '90) remembers it well. "When I came to HBS in 1988, real estate was hot. When I left, it was in a virtual... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

transformation in the music and television industries as well. Their audiences are fragmented and people are demanding mobility, immediacy, and control over their media consumption. This makes some industries' traditional business and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

There is a moment in the musical Hamilton, right after America wins the Revolutionary War, when British King George III strides on stage and asks cheekily, “What comes next?” This is an urgent question for the United Kingdom as it lurches... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

iPod. As I finished writing Speed Trap, the music industry was celebrating the shutdown of Napster, and the major labels were busy organizing their own download services. A few months later, like a bolt out of the blue, Apple launched the... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

23 May 2016
Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

threats may not be very effective.” Someone who willfully downloads music or movies may be liable for thousands of dollars or even more in statuary damages. However, fees for inadvertent usage are typically limited to the actual damages,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

people buy and read books. Steve Jobs and Apple were similarly influential in the sale and distribution of music through iPod and iTunes. Successful leaders possess the ability to understand the impact of the context on their business and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

decision to increase the royalties required to be paid by the web radio industry by 2.5 times over the next five years, effectively pushing profitability for Pandora out of sight. Pandora was a "webcaster" that was based on the View Details