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Transworld Auto Parts (A)

V. G. Narayanan, Harvard Business School
Lisa Brem, Harvard Business School

Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star? (A)

Bob Pozen, affiliation not provided to SSRN
Alex Curtis Rosenfeld, Harvard Business School


CORPORATE GOVERNANCE EDUCATOR: COURSES, CASES & TEACHING ABSTRACTS
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"Transworld Auto Parts (A)" 
HBS Case No. 110-027
Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit

V. G. NARAYANAN, Harvard Business School
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LISA BREM, Harvard Business School
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Transworld Auto Parts had to implement its new strategy flawlessly to survive the auto industry upheaval. The new CEO asked her leadership team to craft strategy maps and balanced scorecards to help each division implement their strategies.

"Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star? (A)" 
HBS Case No. 310-026
Harvard Business School General Management Unit

BOB POZEN, affiliation not provided to SSRN
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ALEX CURTIS ROSENFELD, Harvard Business School
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Joe Kennedy, president and CEO of Pandora, one of the largest and most popular web (internet) radio broadcasters, had just received bad news. The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) had announced its decision to increase the royalties required to be paid by the web radio industry by 2.5 times over the next five years, effectively pushing profitability for Pandora out of sight. Pandora was a "webcaster" that was based on the Music Genome Project, which codified various attributes of a song (making "music DNA"). Using this technology, Pandora could provide a selection of songs with similar "music DNA" to the user's initial choice. Pandora, however, along with other webcasters, was subject to a special statutory scheme regarding royalties, which were higher than the royalties for satellite radio and from which AM/FM radios were totally exempt. This case examines issues of copyright, the economics of new media, and the specialized laws established to regulate a new subset of an existing industry.

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Corporate Governance Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching

PAUL N. BLOOM
Senior Research Scholar of Social Entrepreneurship and Marketing, Duke University - Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE)

MARC EPSTEIN
Distinguished Research Professor, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management

TIMOTHY L. FORT
Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics; Executive Director, Institute for Corporate Responsibility, George Washington University - Department of Strategic Management & Public Policy

MARY C. GENTILE, PH.D.
Writer/Consultant on Leadership and Social Impact Management

GEOFFREY M. HEAL
Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia Business School, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

ANDREW JOHN HOFFMAN
Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources & Environment

ANDREW A. KING
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

ANDREA LARSON
Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration

TODD L. SAYRE
Professor of Accounting, University of San Francisco - School of Business and Management