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- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
deftly weaves in rich storylines from her experience as a psychotherapist—not just to entertain or teach us about others but to beautifully and subtly teach us even more about ourselves.” —Dr. Darria Long Gillespie (MBA 2005), ER doctor,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
When you think of kids and music these days, it’s easier to imagine Chopin and Elgar spinning in their graves than getting any airtime. But move over, J.Lo — a classical music radio show, driven by youthful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
Related Links Watch Bill Roedy describe his approach to taking MTV global In 1989, Bill Roedy (MBA ’79) was told to transform the American success story MTV into a global presence. Twenty years later, Roedy had built the largest View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The World According to MTV
together” (Boston Globe, July 10, 2002). Meanwhile, back in the U.S.A., Brian Graden (MBA '89), already president of entertainment at MTV, took on the additional post of president of entertainment for VH1,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
COO—he followed his passion for music and took the helm at Savage Beast Technologies (SBT), a cash-strapped San Francisco start-up. How bad were things at SBT? “The company wasn’t running on fumes,” Kennedy recalls. “The fumes were gone.”... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)
First love: Performing. “I spent pretty much every weekend from the age of five singing, acting, and dancing at the local theater school.” Take a bow: “My dad is originally from Zambia. Back in the day he bought rudimentary music software and laid down guitar tracks... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Illustrations by Josh Cochran When actor Jeffrey Tambor stepped to the podium at this year’s Golden Globe Awards to accept the honor of Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy, he did so for a show that didn’t premiere on HBO,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment
- 11 Aug 2011
- News
Heard on the Street and the She-E-Os
in the Heart,” Elton John’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” and “How Do You Measure a Year” from the musical Rent, which was sung at the HBS Centennial reception. Both of the new groups are usually larger than the Tycoons were, with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
presidential skybox for her research into the entertainment industry's most successful stars and products. Her brand-new book, Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Waterloo Records & Video time. Passing the torch The original Waterloo Records opened on April Fools Day in 1982; John T. Kunz joined a few months in. For 43 years, the Austin store was a local institution and a beacon for music lovers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
pervasive element of the entertainment business, a thread running through all of society. People in music today can sell any brand. I don’t care what it is. If you want social media to be successful, if it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Soul Man
post–Christian America, like post–Christian Europe.” Added Luce, founder of Teen Mania, a 20-year-old youth ministry, “We’ve been working as hard as we know how to work — everyone in youth ministry is working hard — but we’re losing.” Over the last fifteen years,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Hopping to It
represented the full spectrum of pop music genres and featured a stable of veteran, big–time artists, including Aretha Franklin, Carlos Santana, and Bruce Springsteen. As the New York Times (March 2, 2003) reported, Reid has “silenced his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990)
with a range of music-based content, including live performances, music videos, news, and interviews. “Media is the soundtrack of life,” Clinkscales says. “As technology has changed, the need to tell stories has not stopped—but you need... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- News
Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
Kasseem Dean (OPM 50, 2017), known in the music world as Swizz Beatz, was used to seeing Gordon Parks’ photographs in meetings with business partners and at the homes of friends who were not African American. It was far more unusual to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
who volunteers to teach dance in the New York City public schools. “I want to make movies that are entertaining and commercially successful but also have the potential to change someone’s outlook on life and make a difference in a good... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Last Look
“annual pun-laden musical extravaganza where all of the onstage cast are male Harvard students, with many impersonating babes (and some of them look pretty good).” Tom Parry (AB ’74), publicity manager for the 1973 show, Bewitched Bayou,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Download This
Downloading music from the Internet doesn’t kill CD sales after all, concludes a surprising new study by HBS associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Associate Professor Koleman Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Some Racquet
bachelor," the Newark, New Jersey, Star-Ledger (July 12, 2001) observed, "For 24 years, Korff has worked to shrink the widening chasm between sports fans and their heroes by turning his [tennis] event into a week-long food and music... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
mostly teen-oriented, music stores. Accordingly, among the 200,000 units of merchandise available in every Borders store is a sizable selection of music, from Mozart to Madonna, as well as periodicals, videos, and other View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner