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25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

to bring his laptop to class with his music downloaded on it. He would plug it into the AV system, we'd dim the lights, and voilà, the Bham midweek, mid-day dance party was born! Décor 1999I. We might have been the only section that tried... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, has used music and singing to help staffers think in unconventional ways. Poet David Whyte brings poetry to corporations such as Merck and Procter & Gamble to stir creativity by helping... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

19 Aug 2010
News

Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers

Managerial Economics professor Bing Sung to indicate that some elements of a problem are unknowable and should be recognized as such in our analyses. 1977H. One professor always asked, “Jeremy, who’s going to pay?” 1987E’s motto was “We Be E!” This became the section... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

business world. Yet any entrepreneur can attest to the creative power required to build an organization where none existed before. "Look, I made a hat /Where there never was a hat," sings Georges Seurat in the musical Sunday in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Sep 2008
News

Balanced Equation

perform at Carnegie Hall. Do you still play, and what kind of music do you favor? At best, I was an adequate musician, and that was only when I could steal time to practice. I love playing, though, especially chamber music. Haydn, Mozart,... View Details

Keywords: James Aisner;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna;Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2017
News

Life in Lockdown

glasses have slid down his nose as he designs. His tongue sticks out as he stares, unblinking at his laptop screen, not making a sound. He asks Shin if he can change the music to put on some Azealia Banks, his “spirit artist.” At 5:05... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

primary or generative appropriability. By contrast, years later, Apple broke new ground in the creation of the iPod, a simple portable device that allowed users to play music through a digital library. But it didn't stop there. Realizing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

movies—represents an estimated loss to music and movie companies of up to $180 million a year in India. Plagiarism-—making films based on the ideas, plots, characters, and other "inspirations" from famous films—results in an... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

Message in a Melody that hosted music events to fundraise for Pediatric Oncology Research. At twenty, some friends and I tried to build a second-hand item marketplace on my campus—we failed because we were not resilient to negative... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Street Singer

became aware of a power that I could depend on. And as I learned to be active in my faith, I felt like I gained more and more strength and clarity.” For Harris, music is another facet of spirituality. Her first experience with singing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

parties, music events, knitting circles, culinary demonstrations, and other events. Several stores Raffaelli visited reported staging over 500 events a year. “Bookstores have always been a place where people could convene and have a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

advertising. Although the collection's date range covers 130 years, several hundred catalogs date from the 1920s-1930s. A wide range of products and services available to the trades are represented during these decades-airplanes, automobiles, engines, hardware,... View Details

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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog

State Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton describe critical moments in their negotiations with Vladimir Putin, etc. In the arts and sports : Music industry lawyer John Branca negotiates the purchase of the Beatles catalog;... View Details

June 17, 2016
Comment

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

By: John A. Quelch

Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of business at least temporarily by a terrorist act. Not far away... View Details

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07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

that have not been shipped. This process of reading and reacting to market signals has improved CompUSA's ability to match supply with demand. Finally, book and music retailer Borders Group uses historical sales data to customize the... View Details

Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

When he took some skeptical conservationists to a meeting at agribusiness giant Monsanto’s headquarters not long ago, Richard Crespin (TGMP 4, 1999) says it seemed the only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

Gate Bridge. Play some music-- we're going to take a violinist and pump some music down into the ocean to get some whales to come. And we're going to live stream, effectively, the whale music into these... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

manage them properly. This frenetic activity was more than a game of corporate musical chairs. More fundamentally, it was a story of a search for identity by an industry whose borders were still unclear. It was also a search for the right... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

13 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

maybe they don’t. Why don’t we collaborate on an experiment testing their impact?” That was music to Donaker’s ears. Yelp had run experiments to optimize advertisements and had consultants try to figure out the impact of ads. But in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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