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Arthur A. Kent
Kent introduced the mass production of high quality receivers. By 1926, Kent had sold more than 1 million sets, with annual sales exceeding $60 million. He was renowned for his philanthropy interests, Atwater Kent Foundation and Atwater Kent Hour, which promote... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
several times over the years, depending on available personnel. The hours were filled the first year with a series of faculty speakers, roundtable discussions, a “Connoisseur’s Corner” musical series, occasional recorded comedy, an HBS... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jodi Yang
Boston is where I come to die and be reborn. At seventeen I came to mourn the death of my first love — music — and my grandfather, a hero who proudly led thousands into battle for his country, though he had little formal education. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Austin Club Provides Down-Home Hospitality
(HBS Club of Austin) Last February, the HBS Club of Austin sponsored a Texas-sized get-together for the HBS students who participated in the 2001 Austin High-Tech Trek. More than one hundred alumni, students, and partners were treated to an authentic barbecue and the... View Details
Richard W. Clark
hits and game shows including the $20,000 Pyramid, created the American Music Awards show, and published a variety of self-help and rock memorabilia books. View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- Portrait Project
Lisa Bourne
I want to "dream out loud." Bono said it best at U2's now famous New Year's Night concert in 1989 Dublin. Because every fiber of my soul dances to music at all times, I can respond to this question only by referring to music. I... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Stecker. “Muzak has a huge music library, and many employees came to the company because they love music. Making music an integral, daily aspect of company culture enabled employees to better deliver on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Kristen Jones
All her life, Kristen Jones has been singing. As an undergraduate at Harvard, she transitioned into arranging music and directing musical theater. “I enjoyed putting the pieces together,” Kristen says.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
considered the pacesetter by many online businesses. Grouf understood early on that to entice users to provide personal data, it would be both necessary and proper to offer something useful in return. With BigNote, for example, Firefly's own recently sold online record... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Career Coach
Marc Herson
Plattner Ventures (Partner); Softbank Capital (Executive-in-Residence); SONY BMG Music (Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development); Bertelsmann AG (Investment Director); Thurloe Finance (Founder of VC firm); Lawyer View Details
- 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; Music Industry; Music Industry; United States; Massachusetts
Sandino, Tatiana, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad, and Stacy Straaberg. "School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 124-044, January 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
Dick Griffey
Initially a co-owner of a black nightclub in Los Angeles, Griffey moved into music producing and built one of the most important black entertainment enterprises. A firm proponent of black culture and community, Griffey started a record... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
A Joyful Noise
Boody organ builders. Peter Sykes, one of Boston's best-known organists and music director of the First Congregational Church in Cambridge, played pieces by Buxtehude, Bach, Brahms, and Sweelinck and performed an original piece by Edmund... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
threads in Simons’s career. He grew up in a musical family, studied piano and trumpet, and chose a joint music and neuroscience major at Harvard College to investigate the physiologic basis of View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 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
- 28 May 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
“Brave Leadership: A Conversation with Women in Business.” HIGH NOTE Also in March, New York Philharmonic President and CEO Deborah Borda and renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma discussed strategies for increasing access to classical music to enact... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Affiliation: none Raised: near Chicago Study Abroad Programs: Osaka, Japan, and Seoul, Korea Previous Job: managed Sony account at Young & Rubicam Founding Member: Diversity Task Force, Amherst College Parents: medical doctors who emigrated from South Korea View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
and his wife, Lisa, live in Rhode Island with their two children. Robert A. Hut (12th OPM) is executive vice president of Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc., which licenses to the world market the stage performance rights of Broadway View Details