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- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
unbundling that allows customers to pick and choose the content they consume (be it articles, music tracks, or airline tickets), Teixeira identifies the fueling factor in this case as "decoupling"—separating out activities that customers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
rap music and hip-hop culture, which sprang from a world that few people knew or understood. "Hip hop at the time didn't fit into anybody's conventions of what was appropriate and valuable," Khaire says. "It offended as... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
an active role in the Harvard Club of Vero Beach. He loved to spend his days admiring the view of the Atlantic Ocean while listening to music and reading. He served seven years as president of his condominium association, initiating and... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
Lee and Vice Chairwoman Miky Lee are pleased at the progress that KCON, a Korean-oriented music and cultural convention, has made since its debut in Los Angeles (LA) in 2012. In the years since 2012, the event has been held every year in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
copyrighted content over peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing networks and its impact on the music industry and to assess the viable business models for the industry in the future. Competitiveness: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, has used music and singing to help staffers think in unconventional ways. Poet David Whyte brings poetry to corporations such as Merck and Procter & Gamble to stir creativity by helping... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
Managerial Economics professor Bing Sung to indicate that some elements of a problem are unknowable and should be recognized as such in our analyses. 1977H. One professor always asked, “Jeremy, who’s going to pay?” 1987E’s motto was “We Be E!” This became the section... View Details
- Web
Commencement 2015 Address | About
say about leadership and the future of space travel. But what stuck with me was one of his comments that dealt with Perspective. He described a nightly ritual where he unwinds by listening to music and looking out at the earth. The... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
had increased 18 times and operating profits 13 times. In June 2000, Alan McCollough succeeded him as CEO. A 12-year veteran of Circuit City, McCollough expressed confidence in the future, citing trends such as the digitization of televisions, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Tencent
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426.
Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details
Keywords: Tencent; Tencent Holdings; WeChat; Social Networking; Social Networks; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Video Games; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Portals; Payments; Mobile Payments; O2O; Online-to-offline; E-commerce; Messaging; Subscription Model; Freemium; Mobile App Industry; Smartphone; PC; Monetization Strategy; Antitrust; Streaming; Cloud Computing; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Alibaba; Facebook; JD.com; Tesla; Bundling; Synergies; Digital Strategy; Imitation; Licensing; Agility; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Restructuring; Communication Technology; Blogs; Interactive Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Price; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Network Effects; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Media; Distribution Channels; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Government Relations; Groups and Teams; Networks; Opportunities; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Value Creation; Emerging Markets; Product Development; Segmentation; Business Units; Communication; Profit; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry; Asia; China; Canton (province, China)
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Case 709-429 This case explores the role that MTV, with its heavy diet of music and general youth-oriented media content, plays in spreading public-service messaging to contain the scourge of HIV/AIDS worldwide. There is a focus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Harvard Business School Case 319-013 Jackie Taylor: The Black Ensemble Theater Jackie Taylor, an African American social entrepreneur, founded the Black Ensemble Theater in 1976. Since the ensemble’s inception, she has rented spaces where her group performed original... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-034 Zeswitz Music No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
we’ve seen in the percentage of women investors and underrepresented groups, including Hispanic and Black investors. It is incredibly motivating for me, and I think we are at the beginning of this sea change. Can there be a shift where finance is as culturally relevant... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Schwarzman told him that he was making a mistake. It was all for naught, but this chutzpah was a bit of a hallmark: A year earlier, Schwarzman spearheaded a successful effort to get Anthony and the Imperials—then one of the most popular View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
Rockefeller Center, on August 22, 2015, the house lights dimmed at Madison Square Garden, a few blocks away. Music pulsed and multicolored strobes illuminated cheering audience members, many waving signs emblazoned with their team’s name.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and food habits to marriage and old age, from music and language to celebrities and censorship, he looks at over a hundred ads to study how the Indian consumer has changed over the past five decades and how advertising and society have... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
don't know if it's apocryphal for a story like MTV Cops. Can you add music to the beat of Miami? That pulse, that danger. Everybody realized that in the wreckage and ashes of Miami after the race riots and the explosion of murders, that... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
business world. Yet any entrepreneur can attest to the creative power required to build an organization where none existed before. "Look, I made a hat /Where there never was a hat," sings Georges Seurat in the musical Sunday in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
perform at Carnegie Hall. Do you still play, and what kind of music do you favor? At best, I was an adequate musician, and that was only when I could steal time to practice. I love playing, though, especially chamber music. Haydn, Mozart,... View Details