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- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
music, just like grocery shoppers buying organic milk or fair trade coffee." This lesson applies across all businesses. "We think this is only true for artists and entertainers, but it's true for making tennis shoes and semiconductors,...
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- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
Photos by Scott Clark Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) has an easy laugh. It erupts when the opera-trained singer and accomplished martial artist is asked whether hitting a high C helps power her fist through a stack of boards. “I...
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- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53003 Harvard Business School Case 717-445 AKB48: Going Global? (A) After a remarkable success in Japan, the producer of the Japanese female singing group AKB48 evaluates market opportunities overseas for his View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
satisfaction of "just enough." It's a classic dilemma. The ancient Greeks pondered the same question at the height of Athens' artistic and political strength in the Periclean Age of the fifth century B.C.E. The tragedian...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
products and services. It's not always the flashiest idea that wins. Mayo gestures to a striking lamp on his desk with a lampshade depicting the HBS campus. Hand-painted by an artist in New Hampshire, the lampshade is beautiful; however,...
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- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
incentives necessary to maximize shareholder value? The era of private equity is far from over—the top funds have become very large and are likely to play an influential role in future market cycles. Boards that ask these questions, and act on them, won't just beat the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
a confidant. Rajna Swaminathan Rajna Swaminathan is an acclaimed mrudangam artist and composer. She is a protegé of mrudangam legend, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, and tours regularly with several renowned Indian classical musicians and...
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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
creatives." Stefan Sonnenfeld, for instance, is a digital colorist, a kind of artist who didn't exist 10 years ago and is now in great demand. He works for Ascent Media Group. All the directors want to work for him; he's incredibly...
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Social Thought which bridges the social sciences and arts at the al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art at NYUAD. Al-Dabbagh holds a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from University of Oxford. For more information on research and View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
significant challenges. The case pays particular attention to the four men's evolving identities as musical artists and to the tradeoffs that have accompanied their fame and larger social commitments. The case takes up the evolution of...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
panic.—Edward Degas, artist But Tony is living the life of a wind-up toy, going through the motions of being a good father, a loving son, a good husband, a charming politician, and a resolute friend. He can say just the right things in...
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- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
to widen their artistic repertoire by getting season tickets to the opera? How can companies tell when they are taking advantage of the right opportunity, and when they are sabotaging their chances for future loyalty? A: At one level, the...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
Pradhan: “The most fun part of the HBS experience was participating in skydeck and professor roasts. I have to admit I probably spent way more time preparing for the roast of a HBS professor than I did for any individual case.” Gandhi: “Touring the world playing the...
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- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
participating in skydeck and professor roasts. I have to admit I probably spent way more time preparing for the roast of a HBS professor than I did for any individual case.” Gandhi: “Touring the world playing the drums for artist M.I.A.!”...
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- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
S. Grossman, and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 512-026 When Diane Paulus, artistic director and CEO of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) first started in 2008, she attracted media coverage around an aesthetic that aimed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
challenging the class to show up at work, and in life, as their true, authentic self. “We are all artists in our capacity,” she said. “If you embraced that, if you were no longer tied to the idea that you are one thing—how would that...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Home: Winter Harbor, Maine “I don’t consider myself retired,” says Bill Holden. “I’m just working in a different realm without the day-to-day performance requirements.” The author of three novels (with a fourth to come in 2005), Holden is also a self-taught View Details
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
spiritual rebirth in the modern era. Through the works of artists such as Raphael, Duccio, Rembrandt, Monet, and Picasso, you will discover how various themes and motifs of man’s struggle to find God occur, morph, fade, and then reoccur...
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Washington Post, BBC, Guardian, ABC, and NBC news. She was also an inaugural fellow of the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist, Atlantic Foundation for Racial Equity, and is a current fellow at Stanford Center for South Asian Studies....
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Illustration by Jose Ortega Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1933 Creativity, a quality more traditionally associated with View Details