Publications

Educators

September – October 1999
Article

Job Sculpting: The Art of Retaining Your Best People

By: Timothy Butler and James Waldroop

Keywords: Retention; Jobs and Positions

26 Feb 2015
News

Thinking Like an Entrepreneur: The Science and the Art

2024
Working Paper

“If You’re Not There… You’re Not There”: How Art Market Platforms Induce Status Anxiety to Coerce Participation

By: James Riley and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan

This paper, an 18-month ethnographic investigation of international art fairs (IAFs), shows how market platforms can have a coercive effect, inducing sellers (i.e., art galleries) to participate despite ambivalence over their value and anxiety over the process by which... View Details

Keywords: Market Participation; Status and Position; Competition; Demand and Consumers; Fine Arts Industry

26 Apr 2018
Video

2018 G&WS: Art Brief Presents "Back to the Future: A Strategy for Studying Racism in Organizations"

2023
Book

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

By: Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey

In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action,... View Details

Keywords: Happiness; Personal Development and Career; Emotions

June 1989
Background Note

Mastering the Art of Change: Managing Convergence and Upheaval

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Leonard A. Schlesinger

Outlines the differences between convergent change, which is a process of incremental innovation and continuous improvement, and divergent change, which involves revolutionary changes. Discusses how to manage each type of change and the consequences associated with... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Change

Educators

October 1987 (Revised October 1989)
Background Note

Moving Ideas into Action: Mastering the Art of Change

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Discusses elements in organizing a large scale change effort: defining a shared vision, coalition building, management structure and process, communication and education, local participation and innovation, standards and measures, and symbols and signals. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Communication; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Standards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy

09 Nov 2017
News

Teaching business within the liberal arts could help avoid the next Uber or Harvey Weinstein

Article

What Makes an Arts Capital?: Quantifying a City's Cultural Environment

By: Arthur C. Brooks and Roland J. Kushner

January 2017
Case

New Business Creation: The Art of Starting Companies at GE

By: Robert F. Higgins

Educators

2003
Book

Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making

By: Howard Raiffa, John Richardson and David Metcalfe

Keywords: Negotiation; Theory; Cooperation; Decision Making

12 Feb 2023
News

Psychological Safety: The Art of Encouraging Teams to Be Open

22 Sep 2014
HBS Seminar

Jacob Soll, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

30 Nov 2019
News

Elon Musk and the Dying Art of the Big Bet

2016
Book

Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents

By: William C. Kirby and Marijk C. van der Wende

This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model... View Details

Keywords: International And Comparative Education; Educational Policy And Politics; Science Education; Arts; Global Range; Education; Science

Article

Incorporating the Arts to Create Technical Leaders of the Future

By: Linda A. Hill

Engineering education should be reimagined to create a new generation of technical leaders prepared to dream, invent, and steward the future. These leaders of tomorrow will need to bridge business, engineering, and the arts. View Details

Keywords: Education; Engineering; Arts; Leadership Development