Audio - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1999
News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

audio broadcasting technology to bring satellite radio to all corners of Africa. Koos Bekker, managing director of Naspers, a leading media and communications group in South Africa, discussed his firm's Internet and pay television... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2020
News

Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom

first. People are audio or visual learners. Not everybody is really comfortable processing and learning through a video call. I mean, there are all sorts of different employee styles and preferences. And that doesn't change in a video... View Details

Keywords: Zoom

Profile

Jeremy Andrus

so incredible. Our engineers and designers strive for that reaction. What’s one of your latest audio technologies? We just launched headphones with Supreme Sound, our proprietary sound profile of attacking bass, natural vocals, and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

Likewise, in business, sometimes the best solution involves keeping certain complex pieces that go into a product design invisible. That's why Bang & Olufsen removed equalizer controls from some of its audio equipment in favor of a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

collapse of the U.S. national industry whose path it had defined. Although Sony and Philips had lost to Matsushita in the VCR battle, they, because of their technical capabilities, defined the evolving path of learning based on a disk technology. Together they... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

24 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 24

mechanism we used to facilitate reader/student introspection was end-of-chapter/cases Reflections. Also, we experimented with audio versions of book chapters in the classroom. We went on to continue Jim Barton's hero's journey in a second... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

are invaluable for gaining a deep understanding of different industries and emerging market contexts, and are also a great source of new research ideas. Silverthorne: Has the project evolved in terms of your goals or methodology? Geoffrey Jones: Totally. We began with... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

digital encoding have a similar effect. Improvements in content resolution (such as the transition to multi-channel audio and high definition video), however, tend to worsen the efficiency of the p2p network, making iTunes relatively more... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

30 Sep 2024
News

The Making of a Streaming Sensation

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details

31 Mar 2023
News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

Hewlett and David Packard, made their first product, an audio oscillator. And it was here that Scott D. Cook (MBA '76) [click here to see a profile on Scott Cook from the February 1997 HBS Bulletin] created the world's most popular... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

lengths—60, 30, and 10 seconds—and in 10-second silent videos and 10-second audio clips. We find that perceptions of collective properties of groups, including cohesion, affective trust, and cognitive trust partially mediate perceivers’... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Jul 2024
News

Reddit’s Rise

Relations Department at HBS. Our audio engineer is Craig McDonald. It is available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And if you could take a moment to rate and review us, we’d be grateful. For more... View Details

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), was preparing to meet with his senior managers to discuss BBC WW's global strategy options. BBC WW exploited and exported BBC-branded content around the globe through all formats, including magazines, television, books, DVDs, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2024
News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

alumni podcast featuring interviews and insights from across the world of business. It’s produced by the External Relations Department at HBS. Our audio engineer is Craig McDonald. It is available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get... View Details

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

basically, capture the audio of humpback whales-- or other kinds of whales-- as they articulate whatever they're saying. And amplify that and play that in a way that deaf people can hear it. You're hearing system is connected to your... View Details

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

reader/student introspection was end-of-chapter/cases Reflections. Also, we experimented with audio versions of book chapters in the classroom. We went on to continue Jim Barton's hero's journey in a second Harvard Business Press book... View Details