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  • August 2014
  • Background Note

The Structure and Functioning of Art Markets

By: Mukti Khaire and Eleanor Kenyon
The production, valuation, and consumption of contemporary art are guided by cultural and economic forces that play out in primary and secondary markets. Artists seek the attention of art dealers, who, along with auction houses, play a large role in determining what is... View Details
Keywords: Art Dealer; Art Market; Arts; New York (city, NY)
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Khaire, Mukti, and Eleanor Kenyon. "The Structure and Functioning of Art Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 815-042, August 2014.
  • 12 Jan 2010
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Career Profile: The Art Dealer

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment
  • April 2022
  • Teaching Note

Christie's and Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi: The Value of a Brand

By: Jill Avery
A sixteenth century Renaissance masterpiece, missing for 137 years, believed by many to have been destroyed, and then rediscovered less than a decade ago, becomes the most expensive painting ever sold, all the while surrounded by controversy. Did the buyer of Leonardo... View Details
Keywords: Brand Management; Brand Valuation; Art; Art Dealer; Auction House; Brand Storytelling; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Fine Arts Industry; United States; Italy
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Avery, Jill. "Christie's and Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi: The Value of a Brand." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 522-088, April 2022.
  • 01 Sep 2005
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New Art

coordinated by Gracie Mansion, an established dealer in the New York art world who has long been a champion of emerging, avant-garde artists. Before each trip, Mansion submits slides of artists’ works to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • December 2013 (Revised January 2015)
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Barbara Krakow Gallery

By: Jose Alvarez and Nyssa Liebermann
The Barbara Krakow Gallery is a successful contemporary art gallery located in Boston. It utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended sales cycle when selling pieces to collectors. Though it remains profitable and very respected, the size and scope... View Details
Keywords: Barbara Krakow Gallery; Art Gallery; Art Market; Art World; Artist; Auction House; Primary Art Market; Secondary Art Market; Exhibition; Contemporary Art; Art Collector; Art Dealer; Art Fair; No Haggle Pricing; Extended Sales Cycle; Christie's; Sotheby's; Online Art Seller; Barbara Krakow; Andrew Witkin; Catalogue Raisonne; Arts; Small Business; Business Model; Transition; Customer Relationship Management; Fine Arts Industry; Boston
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Alvarez, Jose, and Nyssa Liebermann. "Barbara Krakow Gallery." Harvard Business School Case 514-033, December 2013. (Revised January 2015.)
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

the photograph, it is hoped that many of the satisfactions of working in the early arts can be brought to a new group of photographers.” Edwin Land, "One-Step Photography," May 31, 1949 66 On Friday, November 26, 1948, the day after... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
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Painting, by the Numbers

You could call Richard Feigen (MBA '54) a dealer in commodities, but he might bridle at that characterization. An internationally known dealer in fine art who has been in the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
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Spray Canon

Taylor Callery Taylor Callery When street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled sold for $110.5 million in 2017, famed art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) told the New York Times that the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Jun 2024
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Renaissance Man

Turning the page: A collection decades in the making tells the story of a lifelong passion. Image Copyright Sotheby’s (Photo Credit: Nathan Keay, Tiny Mechanism) Thomas Brooker (MBA 1968) acquired his first rare book in 1959, during a junior year abroad in Paris. At a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; antique books; collecting; retirement; hobbies
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library

Morse’s contributions as manager of black-and-white film research: “Since 1948 [Land’s] closest associate in developing and improving the sixty-second process has been a Smith arts major named Meroe Morse. . . . Land credits her with many... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

Alumni Books Live the Art by Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) (Rizzoli) A chronicle of Deitch’s career as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

Case 815-042 The Structure and Functioning of Art Markets The production, valuation, and consumption of contemporary art are guided by cultural and economic forces that play out in primary and secondary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

widely used? Merton: One answer is, simply, that it filled a need. It wasn't intellectual interest that made people want to apply it. In the 1970s, profit margins to options dealers were driven down, competition was going up, and options... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.jom.2014.09.008 March 2015 Management Science Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts By: Mollick, Ethan, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—In fields as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF), the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF), and the Asset Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (AMLF). Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Quasi-Experiment By: Israeli, Ayelet Abstract—This paper investigates a manufacturer’s ability to influence compliance rates among its authorized online retailers by exploiting changes in the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policy and in View Details
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