How School of Rock Created Structure in Order to Scale with Agility and Creativity

Cold Call by Harvard Business School by HBR Presents / Brian Kenny

Jun 23, 202637:15Business

In the summer of 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before Rob Price became CEO in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist culture led t...

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