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  • February 2025
  • Supplement

Align Partners and SM Entertainment: Korean Shareholder Activism Meets K-Pop (B)

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Billy Chan
Supplements the (A) case, HBS No. 125-065. For years, institutional investors had experienced very limited success in influencing the management of listed companies through shareholder activist campaigns in Korea. The common practice of circular ownership and public... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Public Equity; Stocks; Investment Activism; Music Entertainment; Corporate Governance; Success; Business and Shareholder Relations; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; South Korea
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  • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Supplement

School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (B)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
In September 2022, Price and his team evaluated the past year’s strategies to increase Method App adoption and discussed new initiatives to consider. View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Education Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios, television networks, book publishers,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

customer service—to build his business. Covers the first 50 years of American Airlines' history, beginning with its role as an industry consolidator in the late 1920s. Smith's strategic and operational choices in building American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2012 (Revised September 2014)
  • Case

Hip Hop (A): Rapper's Delight, Producer's Dilemma

By: Mukti Khaire and Kerry Herman
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Music Industry; Music Industry
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  • November 1993 (Revised February 1996)
  • Supplement

Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (B)

By: Linda A. Hill
Describes the final decision by CEO Rudi Gassner and the subsequent actions taken by the members of the executive committee. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Decisions; Music Industry; Music Industry; Germany
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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
  • 29 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

You Can Still Be Productive Commuters who listen to music or talk radio might be increasing their chance of a stressful workday. Here are better ways to cope with a bad commute. Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading When salespeople become... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

acquisition of AOL Time Warner's music group, and whether to commit the entire amount needed, $1.4 billion. The music industry has suffered greatly in recent years, largely as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 10

introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Lakshmi Iyer, a native... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 06 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

business model, one that positioned the company simultaneously in the PC industry and the consumer electronics industry. While Apple enjoyed a high market share in digital media players and in online music... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2009
  • Teaching Note

Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The MTV Approach to Tackling HIV/AIDS (TN)

By: Tarun Khanna, Sonali R. Bloom and David E. Bloom
Teaching Note for [709429]. View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Emerging Markets; Health Pandemics; Announcements; Social Issues; Customers; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Infrastructure; Multinational Firms and Management; Music Industry; Music Industry; Africa
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  • January 1994 (Revised April 1994)
  • Supplement

Suzanne de Passe at Motown Productions (B)

By: Linda A. Hill
Provides an update of the (A) case. Describes de Passe's career from 1986 to 1993. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 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
Keywords: Consumer Safety; Public Safety; Brand Attraction; Risk Management; Safe Environment Benefit; Marketing Safety; Global Brands; Advertising; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Crime and Corruption; Customers; Music Entertainment; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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  • 25 Feb 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

music to advertising to industrial products. (A course segment on organizations that tried to change and failed—like Nokia—is also included.) "We talk about why Google would buy Nest—a thermostat... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number of structural changes that forced an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 07 Dec 2016
  • HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

Millennials are disruptive bunch. The first generation to grow up with the internet, consumers born after 1980 are used to relying on technology and engineering to do almost everything—including shopping (Amazon), listening to music... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608170 Kenny Kahn at Muzak (A) Harvard Business School Case 408-057 Founded in 1934, Muzak pioneered the industry of background music. Equipped with propriety technology and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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