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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
I can answer that question. This research also raises the issue of gray zones in organizations. The trading of mutual funds once the market has officially cleared, the retribution by music publishers to radio station programmers for... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
DJ, so I’ll admit this fully—the DJ is mostly just clicking a bunch of buttons. The audience has no real way of knowing what the DJ is doing because the music is all pre-recorded. But what they are doing is bringing together thousands of... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55099 Harvard Business School Case 818-110 Yo-Yo Ma and Silkroad Silkroad—a cross-cultural music collaboration that world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma had spearheaded since 1998, was preparing to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 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; Tourism Industry; Travel Industry; United States
Quelch, John A. "Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (June 17, 2016). (Republished by Fortune.com as "What the Orlando Tragedies Can Teach Businesses" on June 20, 2016.)
- February 2025 (Revised May 2025)
- Case
Align Partners and SM Entertainment: Korean Shareholder Activism Meets K-Pop (A)
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Billy Chan
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 resentment toward foreign shareholder... 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
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Billy Chan. "Align Partners and SM Entertainment: Korean Shareholder Activism Meets K-Pop (A)." Harvard Business School Case 125-065, February 2025. (Revised May 2025.)
- January 2012 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
Hip Hop (A): Rapper's Delight, Producer's Dilemma
By: Mukti Khaire and Kerry Herman
Khaire, Mukti, and Kerry Herman. "Hip Hop (A): Rapper's Delight, Producer's Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 812-106, January 2012. (Revised September 2014.)
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
views its stores as its most critical selling platform, and inside them it works hard to be in tune with its customers' aspirational leanings. Music pours through Bose sound systems and the stores are sprayed with a scent to envelop... View Details
- 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 sales, it remained a niche... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
square and two inches tall. It left everything up to the imagination—which is precisely what Apple had in mind. Downplaying its PC capability, Apple's marketers emphasized the Mini's many other uses: It could be a music server for your... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 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
- 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
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
used to sounds or music in the same way. If we find out in which sleep phase these cues are most effective, then we may learn more about memory processing during sleep. We also need to do more research to find out if sleep quality is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
Cohen's revolutionary program BitTorrent, which makes it possible to transfer very large files, such as movies, at a high speed over the Internet. The program, which is available for free over the Internet, is used for peer-to-peer sharing of movies and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
of September as the start of my year (even before I joined the HBS faculty) because many of the commitments in my portfolio were anchored to the academic calendar. Whether it was community chamber orchestras or semi-professional choirs, my View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- March 2025
- Case
Taylor Guitars: Making Employee Ownership Work the Taylor Way
By: Dennis Campbell, Petros Kusmu and Stacy Straaberg
In 2013, guitar manufacturer Taylor Guitars’ co-founders Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug were considering several exit options including selling to a competitor or to a private equity firm. The co-founders decided, instead, to embark on a seven-year process to transfer 100%... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Communication Strategy; Announcements; Decisions; Music Entertainment; Values and Beliefs; Borrowing and Debt; Geographic Location; Global Range; Governance; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Private Ownership; Business Strategy; Management Succession; Transition; Employee Ownership; Performance; Manufacturing Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; California; San Diego; Mexico; Netherlands
Campbell, Dennis, Petros Kusmu, and Stacy Straaberg. "Taylor Guitars: Making Employee Ownership Work the Taylor Way." Harvard Business School Case 125-054, March 2025.
- 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
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace