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- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
lessons, to music lessons, to all of these things. Those aren't things that our children are trying to get done, you know? We, as the parents, want them to compete with all of the other people in suburbia to do whatever. But if our...
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- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311087-PDF-ENG Music and the (Real) World: Thirty Years of MTV Mukti Khaire and Eleanor KenyonHarvard Business School Case 812-041 The case is useful for teaching students the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
estates, art collections, music festivals, and hot-air balloon rides. The book ends with a guide to hotels, restaurants, wineries and tasting rooms, natural mineral spas, shopping, sightseeing, entertainment, and recreation. Investment: A...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Illustrations by the Voorhes Edited by Julia Hanna Complete and utter defeat was something Christina Wallace (MBA 2010) had never really experienced. Academically advanced and musically gifted, she attended Michigan’s Interlochen Arts...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
mistake, they put a little note in the jar about it. And when it’s full, everybody celebrates. I thought that was great. In every musical composition, there are notes and pauses. And the pauses are as important as the notes in the...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
readable page-turner, for avid Sinatraphiles as well as more casual fans of his music and films. It examines the positive and negative forces that made Sinatra, Sinatra. Logra Tu Dream (Achieve Your Dream): How 50 Successful Latinos &...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
too, have drawn practical lessons from artistic methods in design (Bolland and Collopy, 2004), music (Hackman, 2002; Zander and Zander, 1998), theatre (Austin and Devin, 2003), and other areas. Scholars have also proposed art principles...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
if any, should be made to adapt to a chosen market. Given high levels of piracy in the music industry, students are not only able to explore the value creation aspects of AKB48, but also the value-capture features of its business model....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
extraordinary musical talent who neglects the deeper, spiritual part of himself in the excitement of pursuing his performance career of playing to large crowds. After a crisis of self-doubt, he returns to his grandfather's mountain cabin...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The siren song of real estate never sounded so sweet. Then the music stopped. Dan Dubrowski (MBA ’90) remembers it well. “When I came to HBS in 1988, real estate was hot. When I left, it was in a virtual depression.” Classmate Hoke...
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- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
arrangements for two of them to be kept at Estes, because they only want one in the building. With African Americans, they want music that they’re familiar with. People will have food brought in, they will deliver food to the family. It...
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- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
saying everything is awesome. You know, in the case of Lego Batman, kids are bopping. We have a music video at the end of that movie and kids are dancing and bopping to the end of the movie and walking out smiling. So for me, there's a...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
balance between work and home life, and expressing oneself using theater exercises. At Coopers & Lybrand and Goldman Sachs, consultant Benjamin Zander, for example, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, has used music and...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
community. I came to HBS to discover myself and arm myself with the courage to merge my passion for music with my professional career. The Latinx community has been an incredible support network - it has helped me navigate the desire to...
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- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
than $1 billion each and changed their focus from record retailing and music production to a broader one based on airlines, health, financial services, mobile, and media businesses. In addition, Virgin had been able to apply the Virgin...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2011
- Article
Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation
By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett
How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices...
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Dynamic Capabilities;
Strategic Change;
Jazz;
Jazz Mindset;
Improvisation;
Innovation;
Change Management;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Leading Change;
Leadership Style;
Leadership;
Management;
Management Style;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizations;
Creativity;
Strategy;
Music Industry;
Music Industry;
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Japan;
Taiwan;
Europe;
Asia
Bernstein, Ethan S., and Frank J. Barrett. "Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation." Research in Organizational Change and Development 19 (2011): 55–90.
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
had increased 18 times and operating profits 13 times. In June 2000, Alan McCollough succeeded him as CEO. A 12-year veteran of Circuit City, McCollough expressed confidence in the future, citing trends such as the digitization of televisions, View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and not a lot of money. And she’d never worked outside the home. So she was forced to cobble together a number of part-time jobs—grading papers, working for a music company—to keep us afloat. Over the years, she found more and more stable...
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- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales....
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Hubert Joly;
Renew Blue;
Showrooming;
Webrooming;
E-commerce;
E-Commerce Strategy;
Online Retail;
Multichannel Retailing;
Omnichannel;
Marketplaces;
Turnaround;
Consumer Electronics;
Consumer Electronics Accessories;
Appliances;
Stores-within-stores;
Store Experience;
Store Size;
Store Pickup;
Store Management;
Delivery;
Delivery Models;
Amazon;
Amazon.com;
Pricing Strategy;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Satisfaction;
Entertainment;
Film Entertainment;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Music Entertainment;
Television Entertainment;
Theater Entertainment;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business History;
Cost;
Selection and Staffing;
Reports;
Technological Innovation;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Human Capital;
Leading Change;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
Brands and Branding;
Product Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Demand and Consumers;
Media;
Distribution;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Distribution Channels;
Infrastructure;
Product;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Programs;
Groups and Teams;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Technology;
Hardware;
Information Technology;
Internet;
Mobile Technology;
Online Technology;
Search Technology;
Software;
Web;
Web Sites;
Wireless Technology;
Resource Allocation;
Computer Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
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Retail Industry;
Service Industry;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Video Game Industry;
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
subject matter experts. “The Art and Music groups have evolved into weekly classes, gallery openings, and even a Vitality Society jingle, fully tapping into members’ creativity and curiosity,” says Oppenheim, who has been featured on ABC...
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