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- 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
Eldridge R. Johnson
Johnson became a leader in the phonograph industry by introducing a number of technical innovations. He established a strong reputation for quality music and implemented an extremely effective advertising program, which ensured his... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 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
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
New England Conservatory, piano; Yale, psychobiology Speaks: French, Hebrew HBS Show: musical director (2002); writer (2003) Last Summer: associate producer, A Hole in One, Beech Hill Films Previous Career: engagement manager, McKinsey’s... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
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
- 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 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
building a global business strategy to establish markets in countries such as Russia and China, which American business interests had largely ignored. Starting out, he crafted a pan-European approach, believing his young audiences wanted shared common experiences... View Details
- Web
Ana Treviño-Godfrey Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Inside Upswell: A Perspective from Prelude Music Foundation Ana Treviño-Godfrey... 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 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
monthly that covers hip hop, R&B, soul, reggae, and jazz - and the cultures that surround them - has made hugely successful forays onto the Internet and in the fashion, book publishing, and music industries. Catching Rolling Stone Vibe... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
Noa says, “it was electronic music – techno is my passion!” But how would she connect the dots between her enthusiasm for music and her business ambitions? Noa’s advisor suggested she review the websites of... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- May 2016 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
The Birth, Life and Death of Rdio
By: Robert J. Dolan
Dolan, Robert J. "The Birth, Life and Death of Rdio." Harvard Business School Case 516-092, May 2016. (Revised January 2018.)
- June 2005 (Revised June 2006)
- Teaching Note
Musimundo (TN)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching Note to (9-105-036). View Details
Keywords: Music Industry
- April 1998
- Background Note
The U.S. Record Industry in 1997
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Timothy G Capron and Paul J Knutson
Provides an overview of the U.S. record industry in the 1990s. View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program
the replies.) The diversity represented in the room was stunning – these were students of many identities, academic backgrounds, and interests. “Where are you interning this summer?” (Google, CapitalOne, McKinsey, LinkedIn, Universal View Details
- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Got Talent
Instagram account). We had dozens of participants comprising 15 acts, and each $5 donation counted as one vote. Acts included group dance numbers, beatboxing, rapping, musical parodies, and breakdancing/beat-making. In the end, Spencer... View Details
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
David L. Geffen
label. In less than five years, Geffen Records became the third largest label in the recording industry, and Geffen sold it to MCA in 1990. Beyond his success in the music industry, Geffen has also produced and developed a number of... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right by Dal LaMagna (MBA ’70) (Wiley) When LaMagna graduated from HBS, his entrepreneurial activities — including operating discos in drive-in theaters and working with the 1960s View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
Middle East three years before Uber arrived there (Uber purchased the company for $3.1 billion in 2019), and Anghami, a music streaming service that debuted in the MENA region with Arabic and international View Details