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18 Jan 2022
News

HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference

live music by a string orchestra, a product ‘fashion show,’ and a few games with prizes.” Overall, Dai and Gong say the Entrepreneurship Forum was an overwhelming success, in terms of participation—a record high—and in its organization... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

music to advertising to industrial products. (A course segment on organizations that tried to change and failed—like Nokia—is also included.) "We talk about why Google would buy Nest—a thermostat company—and how it is also getting... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

23 Mar 2021
Blog Post

A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS

Equity and Inclusion in corporate America. Gana and I started an organization called Blackminds to shine a light on the stories of success from everyday black and brown people across the world. We’re looking to bring to life stories like the evolution of African View Details

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

questions correspond to what I call the four basic spans of a job: control, accountability, influence, and support. Each span can be adjusted so that it is narrow or wide or somewhere in between. I think of the adjustments as being made on sliders, like those found on... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

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

07 Sep 2021
News

Growing Home

Illustration by PJ Loughran Video Embed Music by Steven Collins. Edited by Steven Collins at Troubadour Image + Sound In August of 2015, Yoshito Hori (MBA 1991) returned to his hometown of Mito, Japan, for a reunion with his high school... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Oct 2002
News

Class Notes Extra

be the best place to learn how to organize and think clearly, and thus be able to generate change,” he explains. After graduating, Ahlhauser worked in finance, auditing, and consulting roles for several national firms before hanging out his shingle on View Details

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608170 Kenny Kahn at Muzak (A) Harvard Business School Case 408-057 Founded in 1934, Muzak pioneered the industry of background music. Equipped with propriety technology and a vast View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2001
News

Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success

musical event — a dramatic tango demonstration — offered an elegant preview of the 2002 conference, "Redefining Distance: Opportunities & Challenges," to be held March 19-21 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. — Julia Hanna View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

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

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

Profile

Jason A. Kilar

fully separate company with its own culture and structure. We decided that ultimately Hulu was going to be a place for very premium content. I had written the business plan for Amazon to get into video back in 1997 and ultimately, I was responsible for the books, View Details

13 Jul 2020
News

The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

dance and half attack flying blocks in time to the music. It’s a whole new way to experience music, especially since they’ve released music packs for some bands I love, including Green Day and Imagine Dragons.” Can you finish these... 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

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

01 Feb 2018
News

HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

an active role in the Harvard Club of Vero Beach. He loved to spend his days admiring the view of the Atlantic Ocean while listening to music and reading. He served seven years as president of his condominium association, initiating and... View Details

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

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