Publications

10 Jan 2013
News

From Wall Street to Visual Art

the "everyperson" profile have been featured in several major museum exhibitions and more than a dozen public art installations around the world over the last decade. From home bases in Tel Aviv and Los... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

children and eight grandchildren, Marina Picasso ended up with some 10,000 of her grandfather's productions, and sent waves across the art world in February by announcing her intention to make many of them... View Details

12 Nov 2014
News

Linda Hill at World Business Forum

01 Apr 1998
News

World Economic Forum

Merge: Is Bigger Always Better?" The World Economic Forum is a membership organization that promotes interaction among leaders from government, business, academia, and the arts with the objective of... View Details

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

10 May 2019
News

Bringing Art to the People It Depicts

Kasseem Dean (OPM 50, 2017), known in the music world as Swizz Beatz, was used to seeing Gordon Parks’ photographs in meetings with business partners and at the homes of friends who were not African American. It was far more unusual to... View Details

Keywords: photography; Gordon Parks; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

logistics business first. The reason? Last-mile delivery is a challenge the world over, but even more so in Mexico—and particularly when your product is sofa-sized. Their solution: Some Bulletin readers suggested partnering with... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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

05 Apr 2018
News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

of buy-in because the art world has endorsed some of the suggestions we’ve put out there.” “Solidary and Solitary” follows the 2016 book Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

January 2008 (Revised March 2011)
Case

Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible

By: Anthony J. Mayo, Mark Benson and David Chen

From his humble beginnings as a local salesman in New York, Henry J. Kaiser rose to become one of the leading industrialists of 20th century America. Though he had no technical engineering training, Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several... View Details

Keywords: History; Mission and Purpose; Transition; Management Practices and Processes; Construction; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Civil Society or Community; Business Strategy; Planning; Construction Industry; Shipping Industry; United States

Educators

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

Web

Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising

Collectibles The Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “The number of people who save handsome advertising cards when they get a chance to get them is larger now than ever. . . . The ultimate destination of all... View Details

Web

A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising: A Marketing Revolution National Markets Advertising Products Trade... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Inspiring conversations around the world

need for us to reach out to one another as nations, as humans,” says Bussel, an Israeli-born artist who divides her time between Los Angeles and Tel Aviv. “One cannot separate art from the human experience, from the View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

The World Is Her Canvas

COLUMBUS: With photos and paintings, celebrating the daily lives of women around the globe. Photo Courtesy Jamie Columbus Traveling with her camera and documenting the daily lives of tribal women around the world has been a passion for... View Details

Keywords: photography; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

2019
Book

Problem Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World

By: Howard H. Stevenson, Russ Banham and Shirley Spence

Problem Solving is the culmination of four years of research conducted by a small project team from 2015 through 2018 in collaboration with HBS alumni, students, faculty, and staff. Its broad and deep knowledge base is derived from a survey of 13 MBA classes... View Details

Keywords: Harvard Business School; Alumni; Influence; Social Responsibility; Humanitarianism