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- April 1975 (Revised April 1983)
- Case
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Salter, Malcolm S. "Boston Symphony Orchestra." Harvard Business School Case 375-340, April 1975. (Revised April 1983.)
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Robertson, of the acclaimed ensemble Medici String Quartet. It seemed a perfect opportunity to explore the process of creative collaboration, a central theme not just in music but in knowledge-intensive businesses. The result is... View Details
- February 2007
- Case
Paul Robertson and the Medici String Quartet
Describes the approach to creative collaboration and leadership adopted by Paul Robertson as leader of one of the most highly regarded string quartets in recent history. Intended to prompt a discussion of a variety of issues surrounding management of creative... View Details
Austin, Robert D., and Shannon O'Donnell. "Paul Robertson and the Medici String Quartet." Harvard Business School Case 607-083, February 2007.
- October 2008 (Revised November 2008)
- Case
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Examines how successful companies can “jump to the next S-curve” through an analogy to the life's work of Miles Davis, especially his paradigm-shattering Kind of Blue album in 1959. Students consider how and why Davis, who had already proven he was tops in his field,... View Details
Austin, Robert D., and Carl Stormer. "Miles Davis: Kind of Blue." Harvard Business School Case 609-050, October 2008. (Revised November 2008.)
- November 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Teaching Note
Sony and the JK Wedding Dance (TN)
By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Teaching Note for 510064. View Details
- August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
- Supplement
Lady Gaga (B)
By: Anita Elberse and Michael Christensen
In March 2011, Troy Carter, manager of pop star Lady Gaga, reflects on decisions made regarding his artist's concert tour and faces a new set of challenges regarding the launch of Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way. Is a huge, expensive launch akin to that of a... View Details
Keywords: Music Entertainment; Product Launch; Product Development; Talent and Talent Management; Music Industry
Elberse, Anita, and Michael Christensen. "Lady Gaga (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 512-017, August 2011. (Revised October 2011.)
- August 1988 (Revised November 1989)
- Case
Reebok International Ltd.
By: John A. Quelch
Reebok executives are reviewing the company's advertising and promotion programs for the second half of 1988. These include sponsorship of the 1988 Summer Olympics and a rock concert tour organized by Amnesty International. In addition, Reebok is launching a new... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Music Entertainment; Advertising Campaigns; Sports; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry
Quelch, John A. "Reebok International Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 589-027, August 1988. (Revised November 1989.)
- March 2023
- Case
FinTunes, Inc., Board of Directors
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jennifer Fonstad
The board of FinTunes, Inc., a start-up aimed at helping musicians distribute their work and manage their finances, must decide among three candidates to serve as the company’s first independent director. The terms of FinTunes’ last round of financing provided that the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California
Paine, Lynn S., and Jennifer Fonstad. "FinTunes, Inc., Board of Directors." Harvard Business School Case 323-071, March 2023.
- March 2011 (Revised December 2012)
- Teaching Note
Bono and U2 (TN)
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Nora N. Khan and Elizabeth Legris
Teaching Note for 809148. View Details
- March 2006
- Teaching Note
Principles of Microeconomics for Strategists - An Online Tutorial (TN)
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Pai-Ling Yin
Teaching Note to 705-801. View Details
Keywords: Music Industry
- July 2005
- Teaching Note
Utah Symphony and Utah Opera: A Merger Proposal (TN)
By: Thomas J. DeLong
Teaching Note to (9-404-116). View Details
- May 2023
- Supplement
Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats Video Supplement Playlist
By: Boris Groysberg
Keywords: Entertainment; Music Entertainment; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Goals and Objectives; Power and Influence; Music Industry; Music Industry; Music Industry
Groysberg, Boris. "Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats Video Supplement Playlist." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 422-701, May 2023.
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
1980s, the band members' journey to sustain and enhance their identity in the next two decades, and the ongoing commitment to balancing their music careers, fame, personal lives, and—in the case of three of the musicians, their Christian... View Details
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
encourage innovative thinking about a challenge is to deconstruct the problem, such as when a musical director makes the orchestra practice a madrigal at a snail's pace. When trying to create something new you have to do something... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707511 Update: The Music Industry in 2006 Harvard Business School Case 707-531 The global recorded music View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
businesses. Consider, for example, the debate about Napster, the online service for sharing digital and music files. Napster triggered a firestorm of outrage in the music View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
upon which to dramatize the advantages of the American system of free enterprise." Foremost among the more than forty company exhibitors was the nation's largest industrial corporation, General Motors. Still smarting from the... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
producing movies and music and allowed artists to reach their audience in novel ways. It's difficult to argue that weaker copyright protection has had a negative impact on artists' incentives to be creative. File-sharing has not... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
required to disclose any whiff of misbehavior to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), an independent monitoring organization regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. A research team examined those records to... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
is just one of many dilemmas that can incite insomnia in a sharing-economy platform provider. There’s also the threat of disintermediation between producers and consumers; the fear of trying to compete in a winner-take-all market; and the challenge of attracting... View Details