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- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
this past September, the New York Philharmonic opened with the US premiere of Swing Symphony by Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Additional networking opportunities. Lincoln now has forums that enable board...
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- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806153 L. Londell McMillan 805-084 On the plane back to New York City, L. Londell McMillan focused on the music on his headphones, the latest offering from his friend and long-time...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
ground. Beyoncé’s bold experiment They also discuss a curious case study, one Elberse wrote about singer-songwriter Beyoncé, who wrote and produced her long-awaited fifth album in secret until the album’s surprise release in December 2013. The album went platinum, and...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50225 Harvard Business School Case 515-701 Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Under the leadership of artistic director Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) hosts...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
Maarten Bos, Rick B. Van Baaren, and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Journal of Sleep Research (forthcoming) Abstract Both scientists and artists have suggested that sleep facilitates creativity, and this idea has received substantial...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
record labels are increasingly experimenting with DRM-less music sales, p2p is superior in this respect. In contrast, metadata (data about data—the indexing data contained in media files such as artist or album name) is superior on...
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- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
Finnish-American artist and an engineer father, a Midwesterner, and an accomplished engineer in her own right. This personalization alone could help get others past their simplistic thinking about her. And if she can genuinely connect her...
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- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
recruited star with a track record of box office successes or with a strong artistic reputation. Finally, in an extension to the study, I do not find that the involvement of stars in movies increases the valuation of film companies that...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
innovations—don't necessarily work in creative industries. For example, when some of her MBA students look at the art market, they want to make it more "efficient" by using technology to get rid of all the intermediaries—galleries, museums, art catalogs—to...
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- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
2000. A coalition of 60 artists Against Piracy—including Alanis Morissette, Hanson, and Bon Jovi—supported this effort. With financial support from RIAA, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, Disney, Myplay.com, and the...
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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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- 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
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
turn-around artist who had saved many companies from financial distress, Guvenal started by learning as much as he could about Turkasset’s debtors. He and his team discovered many of them were small-business owners suffering from poor...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of people know Goodwill primarily as...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
visitors each year." For the past six years, UCCA had worked with more than 100 artists and designers to present 87 art exhibitions and 1,826 public programs to over 1.8 million visitors, including many important leaders from all...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
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 artistic...
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- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
at hand. The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest (2,036) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6613.html http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-064.pdf Published: February 10, 2011 Paper Released: January 2011 Anyone who has spent significant time with...
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