Abstract
We review the documentary All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records as a teaching tool for Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management. Through celebrity and former employee interviews, the film covers the founding, expansion, and eventual failure of the Tower Records music retailer. This review highlights many of the film’s key concepts: entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, organizational growth, and industry decline from disruptive technologies. All Things Must Pass is a useful teaching tool that engages in ways that elude most written cases.
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