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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 09 Jun 2011
- News
The Tycoons, HBS's First A Cappella Group
days. It included spirituals like "Innocent Lamb" and "Steal Away," barbershop quartet standards like "Aura Lee" (which Elvis Presley sang as "Love Me Tender") and "Up a Lazy River", Broadway show tunes like "Lida Rose" from The Music... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
life plan), and CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas. Today Weinstein is the president and CEO of the Brevard Music Center, an institute and summer festival for young musicians in Brevard, North Carolina. It’s here that... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
mission to be achieved.” Ryder hopes to make the film available on the Web, but that requires working out issues involving copyrights for music used on the soundtrack. For more Centennial coverage, check the special issue of The Harbus,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
several times over the years, depending on available personnel. The hours were filled the first year with a series of faculty speakers, roundtable discussions, a “Connoisseur’s Corner” musical series, occasional recorded comedy, an HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
wouldn’t consumers simply download movies — legally or illegally? Uneasy parallels have been drawn between the movie industry and the music industry, which continues to fight against illegal downloading. One entrepreneur, Mark Cuban, has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Stecker. “Muzak has a huge music library, and many employees came to the company because they love music. Making music an integral, daily aspect of company culture enabled employees to better deliver on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
madrigal — love poetry set to music for four to six singers. More recently, Keith has channeled his scholarly inclinations into research for a book about the Royal Winton/Grimwades pottery firm and its products. Along the way, he’s built... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
United Way, and Warner Music Group. Another client is Credigy, an Atlanta-based financial services firm with 170 employees. A Werk assessment at Credigy revealed that while the leadership believed they were running a flexible workplace,... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
Renaissance fair vendor, began in 2009 to formulate a business plan to open a fair in Austin. Less than a year later, Sherwood Forest opened, and ancillary businesses—a summer camp, a sword and armor retailer called Eternal Arms, a Celtic View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)
South of the border: “Both sides of my family are from northern Mexico; my mom’s side is from Hermosillo, Sonora, just a four- or five-hour drive from Tucson.” On the beat: “I was captain of the drumline in my high school marching band and played in the jazz band with... 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
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
at Harvard College, Strassler had had little time to pursue that interest after graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar. But now he was able to turn his attention to history - and to other interests in education and music - which... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 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
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
bronzes, and, yes, the glorious stone statuary of Cambodia. I also assisted young archaeologists with grant applications to preserve ancient kiln sites from the encroachment of developers’ bulldozers. We brought traditional Cambodian View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
acknowledges that his role is important, but with no formal music training, he has no illusions that he could run the whole show. Yes, money is essential, but "a big, fat checkbook, without an artistic director? I couldn't do it. I... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
companies they will be visiting, and what makes them interesting case studies: Red Ants Pants (White Sulphur Springs, Montana). USA-made work clothes designed to fit women, including 70 sizes of pants. Founded in 2006 by Montana Entrepreneur of the Year Sarah Calhoun.... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
Baka: Hiking in Marin County with daughter, Isabella Sunshine. Photo courtesy Tim Baka Tim Baka (MBA ’93) is a self-confessed “numbers guy” who doesn’t wear a tie. As cofounder and president of SlingFin, a Berkeley, California-based startup that provides... View Details