arts - Publications - Faculty & Research

Sep 2009 - 2009
Conference Presentation

Bye Bye Bundles: The Impact of the Unbundling of Music in Digital Channels

By: Anita Elberse

Keywords: Arts; Technology

Citation

July 1988
Case

Boston Ballet

By: W. Earl Sasser and Lucy N. Lytle

Keywords: Arts; Boston

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25 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

motivators, power, achievement, and affiliation, borrowing on the work of Henry Murray and David McClelland. The sixth and final phase requires taking action. The impasse developmental experience does not become realized until we actually do something to seal the deal,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

August 1984
Book Review

Exhibit Review of 'The Tribal Style: Selections from the African Collection of the Peabody Museum of Salem'

By: Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: Arts; Information; Fine Arts Industry; Massachusetts

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17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

Creative thinking skills. Some people are naturally able to think outside the box. But we can all learn and improve our creative thinking skills. For example, there are techniques that involve using different kinds of visual stimulation. You could go to an View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

August 2010
Article

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

By: Mukti Khaire and Sean Silverthorne

Keywords: Arts; Markets; India

Citation

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06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

manager might be feeling. At a meta level I want the whole class—in some ways sharing the same breath—to actually feel different inside when they leave class. Part of that is from questions they’re asking about themselves and about the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

Research Summary

Renovating Democratic Capitalism

By: Malcolm S. Salter

This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details

December 1994
Case

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

By: William J. Poorvu

Keywords: Arts; Fine Arts Industry; Boston

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Teaching Interest

MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Competitive Strategy

March 1994 (Revised July 2000)
Case

London Symphony Orchestra (A), The

Riding the crest of recent artistic and organizational successes, this self-governing symphony orchestra now confronts the challenge of engendering a culture in which, in the words of the managing director, "everyone in the orchestra is constantly thinking, how can we... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Organizational Culture; Fine Arts Industry; London

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Educators

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04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

whether business schools in general have lost their relevance by following "the scientific model" of graduate schools of arts and science as opposed to "the professional model" of medical and law schools. The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

August 29, 2023
Article

The Fragility of Artists’ Reputations from 1795 to 2020

By: Letian Zhang, Mitali Banerjee, Shinan Wang and Zhuoqiao Hong

This study explores the longevity of artistic reputation. We empirically examine whether artists are more- or less-venerated after their death. We construct a massive historical corpus spanning 1795 to 2020 and build separate word-embedding models for each five-year... View Details

Keywords: Natural Language Processing; Reputation; Arts

01 Mar 2021
What Do You Think?

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

February 5, 2021. William Jones, Middle Management 101: Zen in the Art of Middle Management (North Charleston, S.C.: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2015). View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

senior advisor at Steuben Glass in New York who operates her own consultancy. "It's a great art to define what relevancy means for your brand while keeping its heritage alive. It's a matter of catering to existing clients while... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

05 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements

Others With Truthful Statements.) And it has certainly wormed its way into the political spectrum. The research paper Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others opens with excerpts from a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

1 Aug 1993
Conference Presentation

Social and Personal Influences on Professional Artist' Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile, E. Phillips and M. A. Collins

Keywords: Creativity; Arts; Social Psychology

Citation

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

compiled by Harris Wittels, author of Humblebrag, The Art of False Modesty, and found more than 1 in 10 were about being too busy or “not having a life.” (A typical example: “Hi, I’m 16 and I’m publishing 3 books and an album this year.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

information on where each person went to school from LinkedIn. Birds of a feather invest together The information showed that the venture capital world is incredibly homogenous, consisting mostly of white men from liberal arts colleges... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services