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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: 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; Auto Industry; Banking Industry; Bicycle Industry; Computer Industry; Consulting Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Education Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Music Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Retail Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Japan; Taiwan; Europe; Asia
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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.
  • October 1992
  • Case

Charles River Jazz Festival

Charles River Jazz Festival must decide whether to press a compact disk (CD) of Friday's jazz performance for sale on Saturday and Sunday. The idea to press CDs is novel, so there is considerable uncertainty about how receptive customers will be. The festival must... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Decision Making
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Wu, George. "Charles River Jazz Festival." Harvard Business School Case 893-004, October 1992.
  • 23 Jan 2017
  • News

Does Jazz Music Need Star Power?

  • 24 Apr 2024
  • News

What Managers Can Learn from Jazz Improvisation

  • November 2015
  • Case

Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center

By: Rohit Deshpandé
Under the leadership of artistic director Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) hosts performances and education events year-round for audiences in New York and across the United States. Despite the popularity of JALC's events, however, the U.S. audience for... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Music Entertainment; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Growth and Development Strategy; Music Industry
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Deshpandé, Rohit. "Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 515-701, November 2015.
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Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom

Trumpeter Miles Davis is heralded as one the most influential jazz musicians ever, helping to drive forward major evolutions in the genre. While he has inspired scores of jazz musicians over the decades, a... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Video

What Managers Can Learn from Jazz Improvisation

  • 19 Jan 2017
  • News

Can Wynton Marsalis and Lincoln Center Save Jazz Music?

  • 07 Apr 2014
  • News

Negotiation and All That Jazz

  • 19 Jan 2017
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Wynton Marsalis and Lincoln Center Save Jazz Music?

Keywords: Re: Rohit Deshpande; Music
  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

propositions apply in negotiation, as well, according to Michael Wheeler's new book, The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World. As the title suggests, he sees negotiation as an art rather than an exact science. “By emulating what View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 Nov 2010
  • News

The Jazz Process: Diversity Breeds Success

  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

improvisational forms can help you shape your negotiations from the onset. Just as a piece of jazz springs from all the musicians in an ensemble, a negotiation evolves from interactions across the parties. No matter how much you prepare... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
  • January 2022
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Strategic Agility: Lessons from Jazz

By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano
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Gino, Francesca, and Gary Pisano. "Strategic Agility: Lessons from Jazz." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 922-704, January 2022.
  • November 2015
  • Teaching Note

Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center

By: Rohit Deshpandé
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Deshpandé, Rohit. "Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 516-021, November 2015.
  • 31 Mar 2010
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Resilience is key to jazzing up your prospects

  • March 2013
  • Case

Jazzed Up: A Global Strategy Manga (Graphic Novel)

By: Jordan I. Siegel and Jordan I. Siegel
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Siegel, Jordan I. "Jazzed Up: A Global Strategy Manga (Graphic Novel)." Harvard Business School Case 713-514, March 2013.
  • 30 Oct 2023
  • Podcast

Mike Wheeler on the Jazz of Negotiation

In this episode of The Parlor Room, Harvard Business School Professor Mike Wheeler speaks with host Chris Linnane about how negotiation's improvisational nature makes it much like jazz. He also shares stories about a former president's photo and the acquisition of a... View Details
  • Aug 07 2017
  • Interview

Why Is a Case Discussion Like a Jazz Performance?

  • March 2013
  • Teaching Note

Jazzed Up: A Global Strategy Manga (Graphic Novel) — Instructor Version

By: Jordan I. Siegel
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Siegel, Jordan I. "Jazzed Up: A Global Strategy Manga (Graphic Novel) — Instructor Version." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 713-518, March 2013.
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