Music Entertainment - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation; Entertainment & Recreation

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

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment

30 Apr 2019
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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

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

Apple Computer knows how to make headlines. The company is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh and is enjoying the fruits of its launch into the digital entertainment business. In its December quarter, Apple sold 730,000... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

powerful, secretive corporation founded in 1975 that revolutionized the entertainment industry and, over the next several decades, spread its influence aggressively throughout the worlds of movies, television, music, advertising, and... View Details

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Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

Illustrations by the Voorhes Edited by Julia Hanna Complete and utter defeat was something Christina Wallace (MBA 2010) had never really experienced. Academically advanced and musically gifted, she attended Michigan’s Interlochen Arts... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

looking for their first recording contract? Guess again. They're all members of the HBS Class of 1996. Before joining Indian Elvis, however, the only experience lead singer Raj Kapoor had in the music business was as a DJ while a student... View Details

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

too, have drawn practical lessons from artistic methods in design (Bolland and Collopy, 2004), music (Hackman, 2002; Zander and Zander, 1998), theatre (Austin and Devin, 2003), and other areas. Scholars have also proposed art principles... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

subject matter experts. “The Art and Music groups have evolved into weekly classes, gallery openings, and even a Vitality Society jingle, fully tapping into members’ creativity and curiosity,” says Oppenheim, who has been featured on ABC... View Details

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compare and contrast the value extracted by the creative expertise, as a function of negotiated rights. By examining the music industry and Hollywood entertainment industry, we explore how technology does... View Details

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