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- 20 Jan 2016
- News
Water for the World
Jon Olafsson (OPM 24, 1996), a former music industry executive and media mogul, is chairman and cofounder of Icelandic Glacial, the world’s first certified carbon-neutral manufacturer of natural spring... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
“Music is wired into us,” says Keith Cerny (MBA 1991). “Singing is something that is very human, and from singing, it’s very easy to go into playing instruments.” Cerny’s own connection with music began at age 10, with the San Francisco... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- News
In the Contest for Content
Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares Courtesy Sherrese Clarke Soares As the founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners, Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004) is establishing herself within the high-stakes contest to own the catalogs of music... View Details
- 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 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
music director just a week before the flooding began, had led the orchestra only a handful of times as a guest conductor. Now, at 38, he was tasked with rebuilding an orchestra with no home or foreseeable income. When the orchestra took... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an 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
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
As people get more accustomed to using the Internet to conduct business transactions, their demands will become more sophisticated. Cyberspace is jam-packed with startups trying to second-guess what consumers of the future will want. "Whole new View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
have many entrepreneurial friends in traditional industries here in the Kansas City area. Indeed, I believe there are many entrepreneurial opportunities in the Midwest and Southwest but because they're related to View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
of industry such as Andrew Carnegie. "They were interesting stories of integrity that stayed with me," he says. After graduating, Appling spent several years at McKinsey & Company, then took a job at Seimens. In 2006, he began at Bright... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
decades of his career, he cofounded and ran Brooktrout, growing it to a $150-million-a-year company that designed voicemail systems when everyone else was still using cassettes. After retiring, he became CEO of Groove Mobile, the first company to put View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Press) Scherer examines the economics of musical composition in the 18th and 19th centuries, digging into the roots of the shift from patronage to a freelance market. The Integrity Advantage coauthored by Dana Telford (MBA 1998) (Gibbs... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
wine-making. But apartheid had prevented them from owning land or gaining access to capital. Wine had become a $3 billion export industry for South Africa, but just 2 percent of the market was held by black South Africans, who comprise 85... View Details
- 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
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
the best music and dance of Bollywood and infuse it with an interval training–based cardio workout to create a fitness program that is both physically and mentally invigorating for our class participants. We have designed a unique... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions explores the answers to these and other important questions. Edited by HBS professor Thomas K. McCraw, the book analyzes the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
planet, she was touring as a supporting act for New Kids on the Block—a boy band beyond their glory years. Part of what explains her meteoric rise is her talent. But it's not sufficient to just have talent. Her manager did an excellent job, rolling out her View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
just a jogging soundtrack. “How can I be the person people think of when they think about power and inspiration? How can I be the go-to destination for music and feminism?” she says. “The best companies are the ones that think, ‘How can I... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell